CAPE GOVERNMENT’S REGULATION OF IMPORTS

Grey River Argus, 7 June 1922, Page 5

CAPE GOVERNMENT’S REGULATION OF IMPORTS

(Received June 6, 11.3 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, June 5. In the Union Assembly General Smuts stated the Union Government did not intend to renew the war time moratorium, empowering the Government to control imports, but it would substitute a Bill empowering the Government to regulate the importation of the best sugar, and also the bounties on iron and steel. FRENCH WAR MEMORIAL ALONG FRONT. (Receicvd June G, 5. p.m.) PARIS, June 5. ; ’ The srst of a long line of landmarks has been unveiled at Dixmude. It is inscribed “Ici Fut Repousse I’Envahisscur.'’ The line will run from Yser to Verdun, and on to the Swiss frontier, marking the limit of the German invasion. Stones of Alsatian granite will be capped with a carving of a trench helmet. Premier Poincare, Marshal Joffre, and Marshal Foch unveiled the statute of a Poilu at Metz, occupying the pedestal of the statue of William 1., which the people of Metz destroyed on November 17, 1918. JAPANESE PREMIER’S NEW LEASE OF OFFICE (Receieved June G, 9.5 p.m.) TOKIO, June 5. The leader of the Seiyukai Party has agreed to continue the Takahashi Cabinet in office, giving the Premier complete authority to decide the policy of the Cabinet and to expel the recalcitrant members.