BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18763, 17 January 1923, Page 5

BRITISH AND FOREIGN

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyrigat OTTAWA, January 15. At Hamilton, Ontario, the early discovery of another mysterious fire prevented the destruction of St. Mary's Cathedral. This is the thirteenth fire in Canadian cathedral institutions.—A. and N.Z. Cable. SOFIA, January 14. It is semiofficially stated that the native Bulgarian and Turkish populations are being subjected to systematic terrorism and extermination in Western Thrace and Eastern Macedonia, where the situation is causing widespread agitation, in Bulgaria particularly. The outrages are described in a Creek official communique as executions. —Reuter. PARIS, January 15. (Received Jan. 16, at 8.50 p.m.) The Rumanian Minister confirms the reported Hungarian-Rumaiiian skirmishes on the frontier. The French Government has demanded an investigation by the Allied Military Commission at Budapest. —A. and N.Z. Cable. WASHINGTON, January 16. (Received Jan. 16, at 9.45 p.m.) Mr Gornpcrs has announced that he will urge the American Federation of Labour to join the Employees’ Division of the International Labour Office created bv the League of Nations at Geneva. The American Chamber of Commerce has announced that it will join the Employers’ Division.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON, January 16. (Received Jan. 16, at -9.45 p.m.) lire Morning Post, in a leading article on unemployment and migration, deals with the argument that the transference of a- large part of the population of Great Britain to the dominions would eventually bring settlors into competition with British manufacturers. The Morning Post says : Such a thing cannot occur for manv years, but it should be tb e main principle of anv scheme of inter-Impcrinl migration that every settler in the dominions should produce for the English market, and become a customers for English goods. —A. and N.Z. Cable.

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