FOREST FIRES IN RIVIERA.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 209, 3 September 1919, Page 7

FOREST FIRES IN RIVIERA.

12 VILLAGES SURROUNDED. PEOPLE FLEE TO BEACH. (Received 11.1.1 a.m.) PARIS, September 2. A forest fire in the Riviera enciim-pa-ses twelve villages and threatens Grasse and Antibes, ne.tr Cannes. People have quitted their hote'a in the seaside resorts and have taken refuge at the beach.

Klames destroyed the splendid district of Lavenda-u, including the park and mansion owned by M. Ribot, ex-Premier .ci France, ami many other line mansions land their grounds.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)

INDUSTRIAL COUNCILS. TO SETTLE DISPUTES. HE. BEEBY'S SUGGESTION. (Received 11.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. The report of Mr. Geo. Boeby, exMinister of Labour for New South Wales, on his inquiries into industrial conditions in Britain and the United States.

-ecommends the State to establish an elective National Industrial Council, representative of employers and workmen in equal numbers, to consider and report on proposed industrial legislation, and for the encouragement of organisation in industry on lines of the Whitley Councils. The report advocates the maintenance of the present arbitration laws and encouragement of profit-sharing and eo-operr.tive production, and the establishment of National Insurance against sickness and unemployment.-—(A. and X.Z. Cable.)

PRINCE !N CANADA. FUTURE OF BGMINIOSr. (Received 9.45 a.m.) OTTAWA, September 2. Laying the foundation stone of tho new Parliament Buildings, the I'rince of Wales referred to King Edward laying a similar stone for the previous House. ■Sir R. L. Rorden pointed out the probability, during the Prince's lifetime, of Canada becoming more populous even than the Motherland.

The House met later when the speech from the Throne pointed out that it would be necessary fc - the overseas Dominions to ratify the Peace Treaty.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.) PAN-GERMAN PROPAGANDA. RE-ESTABLISHMENT OF MONARCHY. (Received 9.-35 a.m.) LONDON, September 2. According to the Berlin correspondent of the United Press Association, the paiiGerman Union has opened its session in Berlin. Several delegates advocated the , re-establishment of the monarchy.—(A. , and N.Z. Cable.) VICTORY MEDAL. ' ALLIES' UNIFORM DESIGN. j LONDON, September 2. i The King has approved the. granting of a bronze Victory Medal, without a clasp, attached ti> n ribbon with a rod centre and green and violet on each side, -haded to form the colours of two rainbows, for services in all theatres during the period of the war. The medal is identical with that issued by the Allied and associated Powers, thus obviating an interchange of Allied commemorative war medals. It will In' granted to all ranks of tli« r>ritisb, Dominion. Colonial, and Indian forces, to members of women's formations enrolled for service with the forces, and to civilian practitioners, nurses, nnd others working in military hospitals who actually served in a theatre of war.—(A. and N.Z.)

BOLSHEVISM DENOUNCED. FRENCH SOCIALIST'S VIEW. PARIS., September 2. M. Albert Thomas, the French Socialist leader, and formerly Minister of Munitions, addressing a conference of Socialists, denounced extremist Bolshevik tendencies. He urged the Socialists to close up their ranks. He preferred, he said, to withdraw from the party rather than load it in an atmosphere of doubt and disorder. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.) .