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Evening Star, Issue 18158, 26 December 1922, Page 10

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TOKIO. ; December 23.—Baron Uchida, in addressing the House of Peers surveyed Japan’s foreign policy, and expressed the hope that in the event'of the non-ratification of the Washington Conference treaties by other Povyers, 'Japan, in- concert with Hie United States and Britain, would solve the problem together.—A. and N.Z. Cable.; AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS, SYDNEY,’ December 26 The .week-end election' returns; show slight alterations du the state of parties, which is nowA Labor 30, Nationalists 28 Country Party 14, Liberals 2, Independent 1. Altogether five of Mr Hughes’s Ministers have been defeated—viz., Messrs Massy Greene, Paynton Lamond, Rodgers, and Earle, and ex-Ministers Wise and Laird Smith. ’The Senate is incomplete. In Tasmania a candidate of each party was returned.—A, and N.Z, Cable. THE EEAKPAN AFFAIR-CONDEMNED MEN REPRIEVED. GAPE TOWN, Dervrr.bcr 22.—Eleven 'men who were condemned _to death in connection wan the murders at Brakpap of mine officials during the March revolt haw been reprieved. This decision is generally applauded. In a petition to the Governor-General the condemned men said : “We are not murderers, as we understand the word. We did want to keep as much as possible the good tilings of life for our families, but as hunger pressed we fell readily into the organisation of others, who left us to take the risk and bear the blame, The paen jyhofedtei PS *>S USM® fIW 60. with, impunity/L-A, and NrZis [Cables