MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 January 1921, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. AGAINST SOCIALISM. LONDON, Jan. 4. Speaking at Leicester, Mrs Snowden, reviewing her lour through Central Pin rope and Russia, warned labour against extreme action. She declared she would not be surprised if things ended with a King on every European throne, because some Socialists had not the common sense to realise they were going too fast. She said she had not met a single peasant in Russia who genuinely supported the Bolsheviks. CARGO PILFERING. LONDON, Jan. 4. The London Chamber of Commerce considers the question of cargo pilfering very serious, and intends to force consideration before Parliament. It was stated Lloyds had passed claims for half a million for losses last year.

DANGER OF FUTURE. LONDON, Jan. I Speaking in Glasgow on the qiies.mn of naval competition, \ iscount Grey, declared he was convinced that if anotlier war occurred twenty years hence, the civilisation of Europe would 1 e absolutely obliterated. It was necescnrv to keep some council of the nations together to check any tendency in. the growth of competitive armaments. England should maintain the closestpossible relations with her late allies. NEAR EAST TROUBLE. UEUTEIt ’8 T EI.KG RAM S. PARIS, .Inn 4. Advices from Bucharest state gra\e apprehension is felt in Ro l.i.Mu.i ov mg to the reported presence ot sx new Bolshevik divisions with considerable artillery on the Dniester front and Budennvs cavalry are con-cntri',;ig near - Mobile!!'. Roumanian reserves and railwaymen are being mobilized. VIENNA SUICIDES. VIENNA, Jan. 4. There were eleven suicides in Budapest on New Years Eve, all assigned to despair at existing conditions.; SHIPPING SLUMP. | REUTER'S TKLEOHAMK. LONDON, Jan. 4. In view of the grave depression in shipping trade, Scandinavia owners are reported to have decided to lay up indefinitely four hundred thousand tons now lying at Tyneside. Contracts for new ships are also cancelled at a heavy sacrifice. q X K.KNSLAND'S OENEUOSITV. LONDON, January 5. Queensland gave it’s twentieth banquet at the Gui/dhall to 12,000 London children. It was a pronounoed success. The Lord Mayor presided, and paid a tribute to Queensland's consideration for tin- poor children. Mr Hunter (Agent-General), m replying, referred to Queensland’s need for British emigrants.