THE BULGARIAN TREATY

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 53, 26 November 1919, Page 7

THE BULGARIAN TREATY

TO BE SIGNED ON THURSDAY. . Washington, November 24. Unless a decision to tho contrary is reached in tho meantime, the United States will sign peace with Bulgaria on Thursday. Mr. Anrtrew Fisher will sign for Australia, and Sir Thomas Mackenzie for Now Zealand.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.

THE KIDNAPPED CONSUL

SHAEP NOTE FROM -AMERICA TO MEXICO. New York, November 21. The Washington correspondent of the New York "Times" reports that ..the United States has sent a Note to Mexico, stating that any further molestation of Mr. Jenkins would seriously affect tho relations between the United States and Mexico—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn. TMr. William Jenkins, United States Consul at Pueblo, Mexico, was kidnapped' bv threes masked bandits in October, and was held to ransom, with a demand for JJ30.000. The Mexican Government notified the United States State' Department that it would do all it could to secure his release. On October 25 it was reported that tho United States hao.' sent a Note to Mexico demanding that tho Mexican authorities should bring about tho immediate release of Air. Jenkins, if necessary by paying the ransom. The ransom was duly paid, iuul (ho consul was released; but it was not reported who had paid it. An official statement was made, however, that the ransom was not. paid bv the Mexican Government, and the State Department declined to demand that. Mexico should bo asked to reimburse those who had paid it.]