IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17114, 8 April 1921, Page 7

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS.

At Mr Winston request, Colonel L; 0. S. Amery remains chairman . of the Overseas Settlement Committee. A Berlin,message says the national Press vehemently protests agaipst America's demand that Germany shall admit responsibility for the war. :. The Royal Colonial Institute, at the request, of the Earl of Meath, takes over the Empire Day movement, and will signalise this departure by entertaining him at dinner on May 24th. Since the outbreak of the disturbances in Germany, 3642 Communists have been arrested and remain in custody. During the rioting forty policemen were killed. ', Advices from Persia state that the fendarmerie at Meshed arrested a ramer of leading politicians of the late regime, including the Governor, on 'charges of "conspiracy to overthrow the new iG6veri||nejit. The Ambassadors' Conference has drafted a Note to Germany regarding a breach of the Peace Treaty in refusing to allow the British steamer Wimbledon to enter the Kiel Canal, on the pretext that the vessel was carrying war material for Poland. Sir J. D. Connolly, Agent-General in London for West. Australia, has communicated to the Colonial Office a cabled despatch from the Hon. J. Mitchell, Premier of Western Australia,, in reference to the .Federal unification proposals, stating: "Feeling here is against unification or any interference with State rights."' • The International Waterways Conference, summoned by the League of Nations, which is meeting at Barcelona, after'a lengthy discussion, approved of tho principle of.the use of rivers of international concern and river ports by all ships on the same basis as those under the flag of tho controlling nation. ■. ■-•#■'