BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1923, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LLOYD GEORGE ARTICLES. NEW YORK, Nov. 5. Air Lloyd George has contracted to write thirty more articles, the first dealing with his impressions> Aof America, for a New York synidcate. The price is .said to be one of the largest sums per word ever paid. ANOTHER BIG ’QUAKE. LONDON, November 6. ' The Fainza Observatory registered a violent earthquake, at an estimated distance of. about ten thousand kilometres, from north-east to south-west.' The seismographs moved for nearly three hours. BULGARIA’S ACCEPTANCE. SOFIA, November 6. y* The Government, replying to the Serbian ultimatum, accepts the conditions and declares that Bulgaria is not responsible in any way for the trifling incident, but it is necessary to bow to superior force. IRISH PRISONERS. DUBLIN, November 6.' i Although the Republicans declare that several prominent leaders are in a serious condition through the huiiger strike, the movement has now practically collapsed. Seven hundred persist in fasting. The Government is releasing batches of prisoners which will probably continue until practically all have been liberated. ITALIAN AERIAL POLICY. A,. ROME, November, 5: • X Signor Mussolini, speaking at the celebration of the anniversary of the Armistice with Austria, said that while as an individual he might cherish the dream of Utopia, .as tlie responsible head of the State he fused to believe in the' possibility, of perpetual peace. Italy must possess an air force equal to, or stronger, than those of other nations.' He intended to treble the number of aeroplanes in the coming year. IMMIGRANTS’ PLIGHT. NEW YORK, November '5. Four thousand immigrants, including a large proportion of British people, are now . facing deportation, because they arrived after the’quotas of their respective countries were .'filled. They will be permitted to land, under parole, in accordance with a decision of Secretary Davis, who announced that this step is taken in the interests of humanity. This is the first instance of such a sweeping divergence from the accustomed policy, under the Dillingham Law, which was considered almost “Ironclad,” although such a divergence lies within the Secretary’s invocable power. ' ’ COUNTESS AS CANDIDATE. LONDON, November 9. The Countess of Warwick made her debut as Labour candidate, before a crowded audience at the Leamington Town Hall. Tn a bright, animated speech, she said she would like to divide the world into two classes. The upper class "would be composed of the people who worked, with hand and brain, the professional classes joining with the manual workers. Her lower class would be composed of idlers, the neople who did not add anything to the work of the world. Many young men who are leaving Oxford and Cambridge to-day, she said, were joining the Labour Party. The Countess wore a black satin, fur-trimmed frock, long diamond earrings, a hat of black panne, with jet ornaments, and black shoes with red heels.