MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 August 1927, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.)

AIK BALDWIN’S VIEWS,

LONDON, August 27

”J was able to tell tho Canadians that Britian was far from being decadent. It was the same country that stood a decade ago shoulder to shoulder with Canadians in the Great War,”

said .Air Baldwin, at a Conservative rally in Lancashire. This was Ids first speech after Jiis return, “I shrink from reflecting on Canada’s late it tlic original settlers who founded the Dominion, had had Socialist doctrines, instead of relying on tho old Scottish properties, ensuring prosperity. It is a long way from Canada to Communism, but a short way from Communism to disaster. Air Maxton recently said it would be better to have some months of turmoil than a century oi degradation. Turmoil means chaos, murder, bloodshed. Murder of the i innocent of which Scoti'ami lias centuries of experience, but no one wants to return to tho methods of Claverhou.se to settle diflerencc. Have we learned nothing in the last two and e-half centuries? Cannot we cooperate without lighting with the State, which is our child. Wliat is Mr Maxton’s guarantee that turmoil will not ho followed by degradation. Russia had a decade of tyranny and turmoil, which still continues, resulting in the loosening of the bonds of social order. Hordes ol children are wandering in the streets of Moscow and Leningrad, physically and mentally defective, and addicted to vice. -Moreover, capital punishment for trivial offences lias increased. It was the authors of the Russian turmoil, who were fomenting financial trouble in Britain, hut if they wore willing to renounce malevolent activities and guarantee that there would he no further resort to propaganda, there was no reason why AngloRussian relations should not he resumed.”

LONDON, Aug. 26. The Home Office has issued a. statement concerning tho expulsion of Alartin Geitiu and fvan Moniavko, directors of Russian Oil Products. The Government does not desire to place obstructions in the way of trade botv eon England and Russia, so long as those conducting the operations do not indulge in propaganda or conduct contrary to England’s interests. Sir AY. Joyiison Dicks has refused the expelled men's appeals. MEXICAN REDS. AVASHTNGTON, Aug. 26. The United States Ooiinsul at the city ol Guadalajara, in Mexico, lias advised the State Department to-day that eighteen Americans and eleven British- 1 »'is are barricaded in their homes near me Ainpam Company’s mines, which’ have been seized by a “ Red Syndi-' cate. Their lives are endangered.! following the seizure, all the foreigners in the nearby village* with the ox- j ception of those besieged, fled to Guadalajara. j V SUDDEN DEATH. j GISBORNE. Aug. 27. j The death occurred at a country : dance la-t night of Frederick Peter Drube. 42. married, with three children. Nothing indicates the cause of death, though the deceased recently complained of pains in the stomach. He was born in England and spent ■some years in the Dominion prior to tb-o war and was holidaying in England at- the outbreak of hostilities and joined King Edwards Horse, serving j throughout the war, later returning to Now Zealand and engaging in cobbling. ATTEMPTED SUTCIDE. OAMARU, Aug. 28. AVhat looks like an attempted suicide was reported from Herbert this morning when Nicholas Quigley cut bis wrist with a razor. His condition is not serious. TIMBER YARD EIRE. SYDNEY. Aug. 28. There was a big fire in Tanner and Peter’s timber yard yesterday at ICogarnli, near Sydney, covering an area, of two acres. It did great damage, estimated in tho vicinity of one hundred thousand sterling.