WELLINGTON TOPICS

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3530, 17 July 1920, Page 5

WELLINGTON TOPICS

THE DEFENCE POLICY.

STILL INCUBATING. (Special Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, July 16. Some months before his departure for London Sir James Allen was credited with being busy on the preparation of a new policy for his successor at the Defence Office, but so far no trace of the premised heritage has been discovered. People who concern themselves about such matters are beginning to suspect that Sir James finding it too great an undertaking for his own crowded hours, handed the task over to the Special Committee of Officers, of -which whispers are heard occasionally, and that the ihembers of this body are puzzling their heads to devise a scheme fhat will strike the happy mean between the big battalions they love anj the little ones the public demand. Mr Heaton Rhodes’s appointment is a good augary for a sane solution of the problem. The new Minister wants security without extravagance and a sound system of training without militarism. The country wants the same things. AGRICULTURE AND IMMIGRATION. . That the portfolios of Immigration and Agriculture should be in one pair of hands seems quite an admirable arrangement, in theory. The Minister who is looking aften the rural industries of the Dominion ought to he the very person to care for the immigrants landing on its shores. But at the moment the combination does not appear to be working out very well in practice. Mr C. Mitchell, the member for Wellington South, who w&s interrogating the Hon. W. Nosworthy on the subject the other day is not the only person who has heard complaints from recent'arrivals. It is no answer to these complaints to say the High Commissioneifs Office has neglected to supply particulars of people it has sent out here. Gross negligence at one and does not excuse .stolid indifference ■at the other. Canada is beating New Zealand in the competition for population because the bigger Dominion is doing the job well and the smaller one extremely badly.

THE MINING DISPUTE: The Miners ’ Federation has presented an ultimatum to the Prime Minister and the Coal Owners’ Association and will brook no delay yond Monday night. The Federation wants Mr Massey to call “a conference of four from each side” , with himself as chairman to settle the disputes between the parties “along, the lines followed at the drawing up of the National Agreement.” If Mr Massey is unable to preside, then the Federation will accept Mr P. Hally as chairman, but it will allow neither of the gentlemen to exercise a easting vote, and if these terms' are not, accepted it will “take drastic measures to force the issue.’/’ There is nothing very conciliatory about the men evidently are in deadly earnest, but it is hoped the Owners’ Assciation will agree to the conference if only to give the public an opportunity to ascertain the real nature of the differences between the parties. THE RACING CONFERENCE. Though the Racing Confer encewhich is sitting in Wellington this week is concerning itself about many other matters connected with the National Sport, the general public is chiefly interested i R its proposals *for the betterment of the lot of the jockeys who with more or less unanimity have been in incipent revolt for the last six or seven months. Sir Geo. Clifford, <*the president of the Conference ha& been handling the problem with great tact and has won the sympathy of most of the prominent professional* riders, but his refusal to recogni.se the principles of traCo unionism in connection with the sport has aroused the animosity of a number of irresponsible workers whc are rendering the jockeys a very poor service by giving a personal turn to (he quarrel.

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& INSULT TO FRENCH FLAG. THE PERPETRATOR WANTED^ . .M Received 10.10. BERLIN, July 16.

The authorities have offered a re - ' ward of ten thousand marks for- the discovery of the youth who hauled down the French flag. The press de* nounce the escapade. Further demon* strations by students before the Embassy protested against the alleged outrages by French colonial troops in the occupied zone. The police dis j ppvsed tfie mob. DISORDERS IN TRIESTE. Received 10.25. VIENNA, July 16. Serious disorders have occurred in Trieste. The Italians demonstrated against the Jugo-Slavs’ national House and killed several. They also plundered the shops, -restaurants, two banks, and a number of private houses. HOW THE ROMANOFFS DIED. Received 9.50 a.m. PARIS, July 16., The Matin publishes extracts from a book giving the story of the death of the Tsarina. Tsarevitch, and the Princesses. The party were taken to a spot near Ekaterinburg, when a. large bonfire was lighted, and the? soldiery and populace forced tEe victims into the fire, and bayoneted them as they tried to draw* back. Tatiana thrice endeavoured to escape, bu£ was bayoneted repeatedly. The Tsat? ina, holding the Tsarevitch’s hand, threw themselves into the flames.