BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1927, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREIGN NEWS

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BRITAIN’S UNEMPLOYED. LONDON. .March 2

In the House of Commons. Sir A. Steel Maitland (Minister of Labour) made a sympathetic relerence to the mining disasters. He said that the men employed in the mining industry totalled 1,000.000 on the twelfth ol February, and the number was increasing. At present the unemployment in the mining industry was not nearly as severe l as it Has in the-, iron and steel trades. It was not half as great as what tlie- unemployment is in the shipbuilding. LONDON. .March 3. ~,.r Baldwin said coniielential information should never be improperly used particularly by ex-holders of high <»fii•- In my opinion any ooihiclcnlial matter which might be acquired by virtue of official position ought not to be published without, formal permission.” -Mr Ammon asked: Did Mr Baldwin condemn the actions of Mr Churchill, wiio liael reflected upon a high officer of t..e Admiralty in statements in the press. Were these the literature of journalism ? The Speaker intervened and shut cut further questions on Ihe subject.

UNWANTED CHINESE. LONDON, March 3. The Home Office ret used a vise to two Chinese Labour leprcsentatives Causing Lain and Koiicliun. now in Brussels ; whom the London Trade Council invited to visit England in March. QUESTION OF UNITY. WASHINGTON. March The British ->nibn.ssndor. Sir E.stiie Howard, making an address, deplored the idea that England and the l nited States standing together could direct the world. He said: “ I do not believe in anv such general systematic unity of action between the Englishspeaking nations as would lie likely to create a combination against us ol all tin* rest of the world. ’ Ife declared neither Government desired an entangling alliance and appealed for unify of heart and understanding. He said : “ We have to spend large sums on armaments. Let us do without relerence to the armaments of others, only considering our own necessity for protection. There can he no unity ol heart if we eye each other with suspicion. every time others build a new ship or devise a new instrument of destruction. MISSING AIRMAN. MADRID, March 3. The mystery concerning tHe "hereabouts of Larre Borges, cabled earlier, is unsolved. Four wireless stations all night sent out calls to pick linn up. but received no response. Ti is now 21 hours since be set nut over a six hundred miles span, from Casa Bianca to Las Ualmas. It is possible lie came down on a lonely part of the coast with the wireless broken down. A French cruiser is searching.