GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Patea Mail, Volume XLV, 12 September 1921, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Mr. Peterson, Labor member for Norman by, Queensland, has resigned from the party, leaving Mr. Theodore with a majority of 1, exclusive of the speaker. Mr. Peterson states that his hopes in the Labor Party have been shattered, He believed it to be a warm humane movement, but found it a cold political machine, to be kept running by beguiling the worker. .Italy's acceptance of the Armament Conference invitation has been received. All the invited powers have now responded. Aii Mohalier, a prominent rebel loader, lias surrendered'with a large following at Delhi. It is believed this will break the back of the rebellion. No more heavy lighting has been reported and the Moplahs at Tirurangadi have mainly surrendered. According to the Berlin correspondent of the Daily Chronicle Krupps are wholly on a peace time basis and the results arc most impressive. They now employ 99,000 compared with 171,000 in July, 1918, and 81,000 at the outbreak of the war. The increase is due to the introduction of the eight hour day instead of the pre-war 10 hours. Krupps products include ships, agricultural machinery, motor lorries and locomotives, the latter employing 5,000 alone, and giving a yearly output of 300 heavy locomotives and 2,500 15-ton trucks. A striking lesson to a spectator who chose to venture over the line was gi\Yn at the Brown Shield Association football match, played at Wellington on Saturday, He was about two feet across the side line on the field of play when the game suddenly swung round to his quarter, and a “hefty" forward by misadventure kicked him squarely on the forehead. He went down like a nine-pin to the heartless laughter of the crowd, and remained motionless. He was carried away in an unconscious condition by a policcma and one of the onlookers; and it was a quarter of an hour before he had further interest in the proceedings. Professor MacMillan Brown found Lord Northclilfe, with whom he travelled on the Makura obsessed with the idea that war with Japan and the United States was coming near. “I assured him" Professor Macmillan Brown says, ‘ ‘ that I did not think it would come for a century at least. My reasons are that Japan is really governed by file Elder statesmen —the Geuro. They are the wisest men in naval, military, and liuancial matters in Japan, and ny.thcy know very well that if they go to war with the United States, not merely the American money market, but all ipouey markets will be closed to them; they also know that war of that sort will mean enormous expenditure—ten times, a hundred times more than Japan can afford. Japan is a poor country —it has little coal (most of it is lignite) and almost no iron ore. Japan hopes to exploit China; but it will take Japan a century or two, if over it succeeds in it's exploitation of China, to gain a financial position that would yarrant it to enter into a world war.