MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1919, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) AUSTIt ALJAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION SOLDIERS REFUSE DUTY. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, June 14. Two hundred Gordon Highlanders, also a few nVeii of the London Scottish Regiment refused to embark for service in India, as a protest against sending oversea men who had enlisted in 1915.

SOVIET REPUBLIC. COPENHAGEN, June 13

Advices from Vienna state a Soviet Republic will' bo proclaimed at Vienna on Monday.

THE POLISH ARMY

(United Service Telegrams)

(Received This Day at B.a.hi.) PARIS, Juno 10.

Polish armies facing the Germans number two hundred thousand.. General Haller heads the main body which' is concentrated in the north, ready to march on Dnntzig. A number of disaffected Austro-Hungarian generals ployed in other forces have concentrated" towards Silesian objectives, while the armies watch the Russian, Czeeho-Slo-valcian and Ukrainian frontiers.

A GERMAN SUCCESS. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, June 11

The Lettish Information .Bureau at Stockholm reports the Germans have captured Wenden.

THE CANADIAN STRIKE. OTTAWA, Juno j-3

It transpires that the general strike that has been in progress for over a month at Winnipeg, the Manitbbian capital, has continued to extend, and is now operating as far away as Vancouver. This is shown by the U nion Company’s liner Makura being held up there. .

The strike has spread throughout the provinces of Western Canada. All the telephones and railways are now dislocated. , The Makura Veargo of meat at Vancouver cannot lie unloaded. The c-reiv of the steamer, supporting the strikers, are refusing to allow volunteer workers to unload the ship, fe. . , - LEAGUE. OF NATIONS. LONDON, June 13.

A groat representative gathering to further the League of Nations cam-; paign was held at the Albert Hall, Viscount Grey of Fallodon presiding, and Lord Robert Cecil, f V dynes, and, other leaders being present, who had a. splendid reception. Lord Cecil, retelling to the criticism that ...was being made that the British Empire had too, much voting power in tho League said it usually was forgotten that no vital discussion could be taken without the consent of the Council of the League of Nations, on which Britain had only one representative. Still, it must be a league of peoples, and not one of Governments. Otherwise, he admitted matters will, soon degenerate and they will again have the old sort of diplomacy.

THREE WARSHIPS TO BE HERE PARIS, June 12.

Tho British Admiralty has-offered Air Alassey practically a free choice of ships with which to start a Navy in New Zealand. . • Air Alassey has accepted,—but this is subject to approval of the Parliament of Now Zealand. —one of the newest types of light cruiser. Until, however there arc facilities for oil-burning ships provided in New Zealand, the Admiralty will lend the Dominion a coal-burning cruiser instead —a similar to the cruiser “Sydney.” The Admiralty is also presenting New Zealand with another small vessel as a training ship. A third warship, one of the smaller British vessels, will also be stationed in New Zealand wntres, as part of the China Station Fleet