BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 April 1922, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) GERMAN TAXATION. BERLIN, April 5. The Reichstag passed the new taxation measures, including the raising of a compulsory loan. Nationalists and the Extreme Radical opposed the bill. FORCED GREEK LOAN. ATHENS, y\pril 4The Government has introduced a Bill for a compulsory loan providing that all holders of national bank notes must hand half the value of the notes to the Treasury, which will pay seven per cent interest thereon. MALTESE POLITICS. MALTA, April 4. The Government of Malta has been defeated in the Legislative Assembly, through the Constitutional and Labour Parties combining in passing an amendment demanding the abolition of the Senate and refusing to vote the Senators’ salaries. CANADA AND U.S.A. VANCOUVER, April 4. Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador at Washington, who is visiting Canada, in course of several public addresses, said that his visit to Canada was calculated to promote goodwill between Canada and the United States. He referred in laudatory terms to Canadian and Australian representatives’ services at Washington Conference.

OTTAWA, April 4. - Premier Taschereau, of Quebec, *n an interview, declared that the American attitude on the tariff question is one that invites retaliation in kind. He added : “What would the Americans do if the Ottawa Government prevented them from getting their wood pulp supplies from Canada?” He pointed out that 10,000 acres of forest land were being denuded in Quebec each year to supply 1,000,000 cords of pulpwood to the American paper mills. WOOL SALES. LONDON, April 4. In the House of Commons, Air Hilton Young stated that the wool held on the British Government's account by B.A.W.R.A. is approximately 1000 bales. It had also on accoiint of Australia 490 bales ; of New Zealand 554, and of South African 56. This was excluding Australian-owned wool under control of the Association. Sales were continually occurring through the ordinary channels. It was impossible to state precisely when the whole would be disposed of, but it was anticipated that it would take at least two years. TRAITOR SENTENCED. BRUSSELS, April 4. Jeannes, the man charged with betraying Nurse Cavell, has been sentenced to death. “The Times’s” Mons correspondent states that Jeannes was also ordered to pay the costs of the prosecution amounting to • 11,250 francs. The reading of the sentence providing for a public execution in the town of Mons, was greeted with loud applause. A crowd of several thousand hooted Jeannes’s departure from the Court.