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IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

■ The "Matin" states that the Spa Conference will be held on July sth. Meanwhile Mr Lloyd George and M. Millerand will meet midway between London and Paris. A Berlin message says Dr. Solf is proceeding to Tokio as Ambassador to Japan. Dr. Solf was at one time * Governor of German Samoa, and during ® part of the war was Colonial Secretary. A Home message says eighty carloads p of munitions exploded at a suburban * station near Turin, wrecking a number 1 of buildings. Fourteen persons" were 0 killed, and many injured. j '■ A Brussels message says Baron Evence Copee, a Belgian, has been ar- . rested for supplying the Germans throughout the war with coal, and coal products, from which asphyxiating „ gases wero manufactured. j Advices from Belgrade state that an insurrection lias broken out against tlie 5 Albanian Government. ' The Italians support the Government. An Italian s battalion was annihilated near Alessio, J wbifh. Italian warships then shelled. Mr J. H. Thomas, secretary of the * [National Union of Railwaymen, ad- " dressing a meeting of raihvaymen at * Battersea, declared that the recent " wages award would disappoint many, 5 but everything obtainable had been obJ tained. He believed that the railway- > men's claim for 20s increase had been J a profound mistake. 5 A "Washington message says that for 7 all practical purposes the State De- . partment recognised the new Govern--1 ment of Mexico -yesterday when the 0 Mexican Embassy was handed over to r Senor Torres? Diaz, who will act as - Charge d'Affaires. Certain changes have been made in the Embassy staff, , and business is progressing smoothly between the United States and Mexico. Mr Phillips, correspondent of tho "Daily Express" at Constantinople, reports that in reply to an impudent ultimatum, British warships in the Sea of Marmora shelled Nationalist positions behind Tusla. British detachments aro advancing from entrenchments at Ismud towards Adanuzav. Their object is tho consolidation of the present line, there is no intention of occupying Nationalist territory. 3 t A _ London message says Private » Toplis, who murdered a chauffeur at j Andover on April 24th and escaped in 3 the chauffeur's motor-car, was rounded up and shot in a Cumberland villago k yesterday, after a six weeks' hue and nry, during wlrich Toplis made several j attempts to hold up motorists. He also shot a policeman and a farmer in ' the Banffshire highlands. A Cumber- * land policeman challenged Toplis, who j whipped out a revolver, menaced the policeman, and escaped temporarily. A \ party of police collected and surrounded him. Toplis made his last stand, firing until he was shot dead. 3 ————_

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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16855, 8 June 1920, Page 7

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435

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16855, 8 June 1920, Page 7

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16855, 8 June 1920, Page 7

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