IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17106, 30 March 1921, Page 7

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

; A.Washington message says the State, ' Department- is making efforts through ' unnamed agencies fo obtain the release of fifty. Americans • held , by, Soviet if Russia. ! The Crown Prince of Japan arrived at Oolombo in a warship. He was welS led by the Governor, and, later, ded,'. Secrecy is being observed-rer ' fliaWing his movements. , i. ; f|dvices from Silesia report that thir|m British soldiers, were slightly , founded through,a fusillade fired into ',l'train which was conveying soldiers to ; quell lied riots in the plebiscite area. Lithuania. ThoTjithuaniun |represehtative .in Washington points abut: that .Argentina is the first AmeriI'ipinßepablio to accord recognition, and the .hope that .her example. |jjlj lead others to take similar, action. llsTliere'has been a recurrence of the ppturbances itt: Nagpur in connexion fivifith • the so-called temperance moveThe liquor-shops were raided feifflid* the Tstocks destroyed. "The mob patoned,the police, injuring several. The I'tJoliee fired, causing a number of casualI .' The Conummist rising in Germany f followed a plan arranged in Moscow, f but ft broke out a month too Boon. Tho (Jommunists hold Bitterfeld, cutting off Communications between': Berlin and Halle. The police are armed only with ljght machine-guns, whereas the rebels IMM equipped with mine-throwers .ml Usavy; machine-guns. .Political con- , Jnderafiona prevent the use of the ; <|teichswehr. ; •<, • i$ According to business men who re•reently escaped from Baku, the latest .Communist novelty witnessed there was >:|hat discontent amongst the workmen '{increased" to such an. extent that a rit'robbery; week'? was arranged for their • special benefit. Everything possible, ♦Ten under-clothing, -was taken from -.fe civil population.' Workmen are now ' jjelling back to the inhabitants their -.\ sra belongings.