BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 June 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

CABLE NEWS.

immuuUN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. | GERMAN CHANCELLOR’S VIEWS. I (Received This Day at 10.35 a.m.) I BERLIN, June 21. i Herr Wirtli, addressing the non- , Socialist Trade Unions, declared him- , self sincerely determined to prosecute , a policy of straight forwardness abroad, | and genuine democracy at Home. Gcrj many demanded Upper Silesia as all exj pression of democratic will of the population. He questioned whether any . Allied Powers could ignore the plebisI cite. He said European wounds would I never close if democratic freedom and i seif determination were impaired. ■ Upper Silesia would become the centre of a conflagration for a. century, if German rights were injured, and Europe would never get over the second catastrophe without the collapse of civilisation. Every nation must s]>eedily take up the idea of reducing to a minimum the unreprodiictive outlay on militarism. “The cry goes out to the workers of all lands, to See that what Germany pays is employed for the benefit of the workers, of the whole suffering world.” Herr Wirtli announced that Germany’s revenue las* year amounted to over forty-five milliards of marks.

VICTORIAN LEAGUE. lie; oil oil This Dav at 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, June 22. The Prince of Wales presided at the annual meeting of Victoria League and testified to the League’s good work tn the Dominions, of which lie recently had a personal experience. He hoped its membership would be doubled in 'this, the twentieth year of its existence. Lord Dlilner said it was a matter of supreme importance that men and women going from one part of the Empire to nnothir, should not feel as if they were going to a foreign country.