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Hokitika Guardian, 2 May 1927, Page 2

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BEATTY’S SUCCESSOR. LONDON, April 29. '"V, It is officially stated that Admiral .f Charles ALidden succeeds Earl Reatty as First Sea Lord, on 30th August.

ECONOAI 1C CONFERENCE

LONDON, May 1

A vast amount of preparatory work has been done. Preliminary experts have explored the ground in such a way as to direct the conference mainly to two classes of questions, firstly, commercial and tariff policy; secondly, international industrial agreement. It is held that these go to the root of the world’s economic difficulties. It is expected the subject of migration will also be prominent. It must be borne in mind delegates, though appointed by their Governments and chosen fftt-y. their personal qualifications in various subjects, are not in any way the spokesmen of an official policy. The British delegates are Sirs Arthur Balfour. A. Norman Hill. Alaxmus essis W. T. Layton, and Arthur Pugh.

LABOUR CONFERENCE. LONDON. April 29. Six hundred delegates representing four millinn trade unionists, attended-, the Trade Union Congress to plan a campaign against the Trade Union Bill. George Hicks (presiding) declared just as the conventions ot old bound themselves by oath to maintain the faith, we pledge ourselves to stand by trade unions and fight the Bill to the bitter end. The main resolution was a pledge of the conference to work to frustrate this malicious attack. and drive the authors of the Bill from power. IX THE COMMONS. LONDON, April 30 The House of Commons rejected the Afarried Women's Employment Bill, one of tbe chief aims of which was to prevent marriage being a. bar to om--1 byment in the Civil Service. TRADE UNION BILL iß&ue.ved this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, A ray I. It is confirmed that the Government intends making lock-outs illegal. Lord Birkenhead, speaking at Manchester. declared the Trade Union Bill will be pressed and carried, subject to any reasonable modifications not affecting fundamental principles. He added: “We have taken on a great quarrel but it is a just quarrel.” dutch Princess. HAGUE, Afay 1 There are great rejoicings throughout Holland at the coming of age at 18, of Princess Juliana. She is nowentitled to an income of £16,000 per year, and her own palace. There were eighty present at the Royal banquet last night, when Queen Wilhelmina, in a touching speech referred to the responsibilities Juliana would some day be called upon to undertake, and commended her intention to prepare herself by studies at the University of Leiden, which she would be entering in the autumn. CHANGE IN POLICY. LONDON, April 30. The Daily News expresses the opinion that Admiral Madden’s' appointincut as First Sea Lord, in place of Lord Beatty, foreshadows changes of British naval policy. Admiral Madden and Lord Beatty represent different ideas of naval development. Possibly it is the result of an ampler account of the Battle of Jutland, which hitherto. An naval opinion, has been partisan of the Beatty school.

BRITISH DELEGATION TO COOLIDGE PARLEY. LONDON, April 29. Lord Cecil, Right Hon AV. Bridge--x man (First Lord of the Admiralty) and Admiral Kelly will lie the principal delegates at President Coolidge’s Naval Limitation Conference. ONE-SIDEDNESS OF THE BILL. LONDON, April 30. Following the complaints of the onesideduess of the Trade Union Bill, the Daily Express understands that the Government- intends to make a general lockout ns illegal as a general strike. An amendment is being drafted. Tlie Conservative Central Office has issued over three and a quarter million leaflets expounding and defending tho Bill.

TOMMY ATKINS PRAISED. ' LONDON, April 30. Speaking at the Royal Academy banquet, Sir L. AYorthington Evans (Minister of AA’ar) declared that although the British Army was greatly reduced, it was as efficient and as well equipped as any in the world. He declared that a stupendous disaster had been prevented in China, where there was a Proof of the army’s business-like efficiency in the rapid despatch of large numbers at short notice, and in the conduct of the troops at Shanghai, where “Tommy” had again gone as a friend. “Picture,” he said, “Tommy keeping the peace, in contrast to Bernard Shaw s ‘Man and Superman,’ in which he says that when the soldier approaches, the world picks up its spoons, and packs off its womankind.” He added—“l have been waiting for an opportunity to reply to this, but I need not say anything here, as tho Academy has suitably dealt with the offender.”

ANOTHER VIEW. LONDON, April 30. - J *“~ Lord Jellicoe, speaking at the Royal Academy banquet, referring to disarmament, urged the limitation of the size of ships. He declared that the gieatest mistake made at the Washington Conference was tile placing of tile size ot cruisers at ten thousand tons when the limit might have been much lower. OLD WORLD TRADE. PARTS, April 30. M. Roger Auboin, a leading publicist, points out in “ I-e Europe Nouvcllc. that the trend of commercial development is to move from the present nations bordering on the Eastern Atlantic to those on the Pacific, and that it is due to these latter countries’ use of capital and man-power to treat and export their own raw materials. Thus tlie cotton industry has greatly progressed in India, China, Brazil and Mexico, and the metallurgical industry in Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He says the depression of the European currencies, the employment of hydro-electric power and liquid combustibles lias altered the ditions. The Governments, in seeking remedies, have resorted to excessive protection, which has only aggravated the evil.

TREATED BY WIRELESS. LONDON. April 30. An injured man aboard the Sydneybound steamer Hartbridge was treated by wireless last night at a distance of four hundred miles from Malm Head (Ireland). The man’s head injuries had resulted in bleeding from the nose, mouth and ears, and he asked how it could he stopped. Malin Head communicated with a surgeon of the Londonderry Infirmary, whose instructions were wirelessed to the Hartbridge.