22 May 1922
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Newspaper
Port Pirie Recorder
Location
Port Pirie, South Australia, Australia
Date
May 22, 1922
Page
1
A Lords division by four votes rejected Lady Rhondda’s bid for a seat. The Attorney General argued the peerage violated the Qualification of Women Act in challenging the claim.
Reports from Belfast and surrounding areas describe widespread violence and arson linked to sectarian clashes. Incendiaries target shops and theaters, police and troops clash with armed groups, and several workers are injured or killed as trains, bridges, and properties burn amid mounting political tension.
From London the Observer reports mass outrages and arson in County Down and County Antrim. Republican units mobilized secretly attack Catholic and mixed districts while loyalist areas largely escape. Raiders use rifles, bombs, and missiles. Ballymena railway station is destroyed. police barricades, wires cut, and telegraph lines damaged.
A London byelection result shows Mr E S Grenfell winning the City of London seat with 10 414 votes. Sir Bowater trails with 16 17 percent, according to Reuters.
London loan market reports the British government planning a new South Wales loan with favorable terms, but doubts arise over full subscription. The Straits Settlements show resilience though investors hesitate, while the Imperial Company faces limited appetite amid economic strains.
British financial dispatches show transfers totaling £3,? lr. In London 18 has been reported by the Exchequer and Commissioners of Customs. A balance of £76,000 remains in the Paymaster General’s hands after allocations for the British army's costs.
In London the Dail Eireann speaker announced a national coalition agreement between Mr de Valera and Mr Colling. Candidates will be nominated by the party and the executive will include the President, Minister of Defence, and nine other ministers from the majority with four from the minority. An election is to be held in June with adult suffrage, and the current deputies are to be returned unless an outside party nominates a strong opposition candidate.
A German report quotes Poincare stating France will act with its Allies if Germany defaults on reparations in 1929 and will insist on Versailles rights if no agreement is reached. The note references Chamberlain's Commons remarks that France assured Britain in 1920 of not acting alone.
In London on Saturday Prime Minister Lloyd George greeted visiting dominion parliamentarians with cordial warmth. Australia was represented by Sir James Mitchell and Edmund Jowett as part of the cross empire talks.
London reports Mr Lloyd George called the Genoa Conference a landmark toward peace and said the non-aggression pact would endure once established. He warned Bolshevists to honor the western code and noted Russia’s memoary demand on nationalised property.
In an interview Lloyd George describes the adoption of a non aggression pact as a remarkable scene. He recalls delegates from India and other nations rising in order to pledge to move armies out of Europe while a permanent peace is hoped for, with confidence in Russian goodwill.
The Board of Industry rejects a miscellaneous government employees board due to the ironclad Industrial Code and risk of overlap. It notes 42 months of proposed amendments to simplify industry grouping and transposition.
The final plenary session of the Grupa Conference adopted a resolution embodying a temporary non aggression pact. The Russian delegation and several Minor States repeated their reservations. M Barthaw said he recommended to the French Government adoption of the part-...
The Times reports the conference dissolved without a definite conclusion, noting a lamentable turn in its proceedings and wrinkled consensus among its trestods.
Federal Parliament members and ministers back the Prime Minister in a propaganda tour. A minister with repatriation duties will visit Robertson electorate to speak at Singleton Thursday and Dongog Friday. Hughes will tour Macquarie Bathurst Blayney Mhilthorpe and Lithgow this week with Bathurst, Blayney, and Lithgow stops.
Charles Gates eight year old? The court heard he had been married three men before this bigamous marriage and the woman in the fourth marriage was thrice married. The Crown Prosecutor noted prior convictions for larceny imposition false pretences and hare stealing. He was sentenced to two years with hard labor.
Sydney report notes no information on shearers' attitude to Mr Justice Powers's wage award. A W U officials met but kept their decision secret. Tiny Ukely Mist vows to abandon Arbitration Court claims and push for One Big Union. London dispatch: engineering unions negotiate a tentative deal to be circulated to organisations Tuesday.
Melbourne interview with D C Rushton and John Jowell outlines Mormon stance on polygamy. They say polygamy was never a tenet, though practices persisted in Utah despite bans. Excommunication used for violations, with cases in Sydney involving adultery and a man with a second wife.
A fragmented report lists unusual measurements including 50,692 mile an oceanic span, 26-171 talles, and 55,562 miele across ten land areas, signaling a curio of archaic units and geographies.
In Portsmouth a meeting of the federation of engineering and ship building trades employees approved resuming negotiations for a settlement of the engineering dispute. Union representatives will meet the employers tomorrow.
Soya Eakins attempted to lower the Brisbane to Sydney motor record yesterday but failed. The car ran well until near Windsor when it struck a culvert, causing heavy damage. Eakins and his mechanic were unhurt and could not continue.
A packet of sawblades was found in the yard of Melbourne Gaol. Police investigate a suspected breakout plot involving a prisoner, with authorities reviewing security measures and potential accomplices.
Melbourne report says five aircraftmen at No. 1 station Point Cook were dismissed after trouble over a tea time order requiring full flying uniforms. The men claim they are scapegoats for the 230 men at the station who objected to the order.
Sunday report states the jury acquitted the accused on the conspiracy charge in the Badak case. Foreman said jurors unanimously found not guilty of conspiracy, though belief persisted that individuals were guilty of misrepresentation.
Under the heading The Decline of Psychoanalysis the English weekly notes that talk of psychoanalysis has decreased and shifted to drawing room amusements and jokes. It mentions ectoplasm astral selves and materialisation as terms linked to the revived subjects and questions whether formal dialogue remains in society.
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