MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 May 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

(Imperial News Service). CHEESE NOT WANTED. LONDON, May 1. The Food Controller announces, that Government will not make further purchases of cheese. No Australian or New Zealand cheese will be available' for private purchasers till 1920-21. Fro duetion will bo marketed and returned, the maximum price maintained for the time being in London. running amuck. i PARES, May 2. Five men and women aiitomobilidg madly along the Avenue Gobelins, discharged revolvers, severely wounding a girl in the crowd. The. automobile erashed into a trolly post. A soldier and a woman were thrown out and killed instantly.

FRENCH STHRIKE FAIL'S. PARIS, May I. Only one-third of the railwayman m Paris obeyed the summons to cease work and tlie strike failed. STRIKE RIOT. PARIS, May 2. Extremists among three thousand demonstrators in the Place Republiquo last night exchanged many shots with the police. Four of the latter and many civilians were wounded. FRENCH STRIKE. PARIS, May 2. The Genoral .Federation of Labour is supporting the railwayman and has decided to call out the miners, seamen and dockers. 'ANARCHIST RIOT. ROME, Mav 2. An anarchist at Turin 'bombed a procession. Tlie police guards lired on dm aggressors, two being killed and many' wounded. DANISH APPOINTMENT. COPENHAGEN, .May 2. Larsen, a barrister. was elected Chairman and PTaxthalcsen, ex-Consul-General of Moscow, Secretary of lho Committee for the resumption of trade with Russia.

, PRICE ON RELAK'JN. BUDAPEST, ‘May 2. Colonel lanka, Chief of Hie Hungarian General Staff has circularised the Hungarian Secret Societies offering ten thousand sterling for the capture of Belakwn, dead or alive. Beiakun is now interned at Vienna. NA VIC ATI ON COM BINE. LONDON, May 1. The Navigation Companies of Holland are amalgamating with a capital of two hundred million florins. TURKISH TROUBLES. LONDON, May 1. The “Evening News” Constantinople correspondent says a heavy blow has been struck against Kemal Pasha due to a meeting of Nationalist troops at Angora, who killed many officers and seized the headquarters. Kemal is retiring in the direction of Sivas. Meanwhile the local revolts are spreading in Antimalin, as a result of taxation to provide high payment for Ivemal’s troops.

GREAT TRACK RECORD. PHILADELPHIA, May 2.

The English team’s victory in the two mile relay was one of the most sensational that ever occurred on an American track. The team’s running order was Tatlmni, Stallard, Milligan and Rudd. It was due to Stallard and Rudd’s phenomenal running that the winners were forty yards ahead of Illin-. ois University, which came in second. Stallard gained yards over his competitors hut dropped in a faint when he handed the baton to Milligan. Rudd increased the lead to 40 yards. SHIPBUILDING. SHANGHAI, May 2. Fifteen vessels built in Japan for United States Shipping Board have been launched while fifteen more arc expected to be ready shortly. Two 10,500 toil vessels being built at Shanghai are already completed and two similar vessels will shortly follow. RENT STRIKE. NEW YORK, May 2. Thousands of families in Chicago have started a rent strike, refusing to vacate apartments, in accordance with May Day morning orders. Tenants formed a League and it is predicted that ten thousand will defy the landlords. DUTCH SHIP COMBINE. AMSTERDAM, May 2.

The new Shipping Combine operates lines to Eastern Asia, India, Australasia and Africa. CAB’DE ITEMS. WASHINGTON, May . Vanderlip, the well-known American banker, discussing the conditions m Japan and America, said that they were parallel both having vastly increased their credits and inflated their currencyhut conditions were approaching inv living the nossibilities of serious trouble. NEW YORK, May >. Nightingale, of New Hampshire College, won the first place, and Montague of Oxford the second place in the international three mile race. CAPETOWN, May .

There was a new departure in aeroplaning, when a Handley Page maehi 10 conveyed the University football team to play Morcsbnrg, a journey of eighty miles. LONDON, May 1. The Army Council has refused to permit Bislcy marksmen to use a service rifle with the barrel packed with a view to checking vibration. BOLSHEVISM IN CHINA. PEKIN, May 2. *

The Chinese Government is planning to appoint a Commission to consider the living conditions of-the common people, with a view to affecting amelioration thus forestalling Bolshevism.

DEMONSTRATION AT THE GAPE CAPETOWN, May 1.

May Day was generally observed Iftr tile iirst time tlirougbout tho Union as a •Labour "Day. Factories and workshops were closed and there were le-' inonstrations in all the larger towns. At, Capetown tho demonstration was characterised by a split between, the Moderate and Extremist sections. The latter organised the big procession and a gaol mass meeting. They prepared and passed resolutions affirming tho impending dissolution of the present system of society, based on private ownership and pledging the •,« inkers to prepare to carry on production during the period of jmllapse which would be entailed through the transformation from a dictatorship to a cooperative Commonwealth. Some of the 'Labour M.P.’s announced that they would speak from various platforms, but on learning tho terms of the resolution withdrew from participation in the demonstration and noi e appeared on the platforms. Owing to tho downpour of rain the resolutions were merely put, no speeches being made. NEW STRIKE MOVE. London, May 2. Elite 'South Wales raihvayigen, at their conference have affirmed their decision to institute a “work to rule” , strike. It starts on Monday May bid j and lasts until a £6 weekly minimum is granted. 1 CHINESE EXHIBITION. PEKIN, May 2. i'he Chinese Government will hold an International Industrial Exhibition at Pekin in March of 1922 for widen u,000,000 dollars have been appropriated. WASHINGTON, Ma v 3. It is understood that virtually two thirds oi Mexico is now in revolt, and it is expected that the rebels will soon open a movement against Mexico City. There are indications that Carranza will probably move to Vera Cruz. A TREATY. London, May •>. According to advices from Argentina, a Treaty has recently been negotiated between Japan and Paraguay, which provides for the Japanese colonisation j of Paraguay, and for Japan to bo givni j formally the favoured nation privilege, j It is also reported a similar treaty is | being negotiated between Japan and Uruguay and that in furtherance of | America and Japanese capitalists have | received large tracts of agricultural land in Bolivia.

JAPANESE ITEMS. WASHINGTON, May 2. It is semi-officially announced that M. Debuchi, the Japanese Charge d’ Affaires at Berlin, is negotiating for the German's Shantung documents. It is expected, in the event of China refusing to conduct negotiations with Japan for tile return of Shantung, that Japan is prepared to maintain the stalls quo indefinitely. TOKIO, May 3. Viscount Kanaka, former Japanese representative in file United States, in a speech said: Peace in the Pacific rests upon the mutual respect shown bv America and Japan. OBITUARY. LONDON, .May 2. Obituary.—Rt Hon Thomas W. Russell. AUSTR ALIAN’S LONG WALK. LONDON. May 2. The “Daily News” states that Stanley Austin Orr left Plymouth yesterday, resuming the round the world trip, which he began at Circular Quay, in Sydney, with five others on the Ist of January, 1910, for a wager. Mr Orr claims he has now travelled 22,000 miles, and is adhering to the conditions of the wager. He was at Archangel at the outbreak of the war, and lie returns thither. He tramps through Russia, then Siberia, and China, and thence goes to Japan and Australia.