MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 3 January 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

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ARAB RISING. LONDON, December 31. An official report states Arabs who seized Deir El Zor are now dispersing owing to want of food and organisation. Some tribes show determined hostility to the invaders. Albukemal was occupied on the 21st December. All is quiet. The British personnel captured at Deir el Zor by Arabs have been __ (u have joined the British I ( force.

'V CONSTANTINOPLE’S FUTURE. PARIS, December 31st. 'The “Matin’*” Loudon correspondent understands that the question of principle has been settled regarding tlio future status of Constantinople and tho Straits leading to the Black Sea. The •British Government viewpoint was accepted and it appears certain that the Ottoman sent of will be transferred either to Bronssa or Koma in Asia Minor, but the nature of the international regime in Constantinople is still under discussion.

KOREAN UNREST. •< NEW YORK, Jan. i. A widespread revolt against Japanese rule in Korea, is reported to be imminent. U.S. RESIDENCY. NEW YORK, December3l. The Evening Sun says that Wilson has definitely decided not to be a candidate for a third Presidential term. SOVIET MINISTER’S WIFE. NEW YORK, December 31. A Buffalo mesasge states that Doctor Annan 'Reinstein, wife of a Minister in the Lenin Cabinet has been arrested there on a charge of engaging in seditious propaganda, ■ RELEASING PRISONERS. LONDON, January 1. The War Office states that apart from tlie German aviators a few invalids, and the naval prisoners, who were all concerned in the Scapa Flow sinkings, practically all the German prisoners have left the United Kingdom. A crowd of 6700 Turks and 27 Germans have been repatriated from 'Egypt Salonika, and Malta, about a fortnight ago.

A PROSPEROUS OUTLOOK. /Received This Dav at 0.25 a.m.l - LONDON, Jan. 1. Hamar Greenwood interviewed, said Britain and the Empire never entered into a- new year with brighter prospects of prosperity. Reports from the Consuls and diplomatic officers in every part of the world show the production is far 1 behind what other countries require from us. No country’lias a better commercial outlook and if we can avoid strikes, we should become more pros- - perous than ever. The year 1920 shquld be the first of a series of great ye a TSQUESTIONS. /Received this dav at 9.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. Senator. Boras and a small group of Irreconcilable Republican Senators have started an organised movement to make tfjft Treaty the issue in the coming Pred%ntial campaign. /They have sent letters to several aspirants to Republican! nomination for the Presidency asking latter to make their position on the Treaty clear. It is understood this was done without consultation of the leader of the Republican Party and may result in «* schism in the party.

JAPAN AND AMERICA. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON. Jan. 1. Yada, Consul-General in New York, who is now in Peking interviewed, said -The Senate’s Shantung Amendment was f%spirpd by disgust with Japan's poMlev towards China. Americans always suspected Japan’s territorial ambitions in China. Frankly speaking, the relationship between Japan and United States was in a dangerous condition. A proposal was now afoot to send a delegation composed of Japanese statesmen and business men to United Spates M ' purpose of re-establishing Japanese American friendly relations. .ARifED THEFTS; (Received this day, at 9.39 a-Ph) RONDON, December ?.■ Armed, masked men raided the post office at Limerick and escaped with £I,OOO sterling. DE ROUEMONT. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) •IjONDON, January 2. A man named Louis Redmond, claiming to be De Rouemont, is seriously ill in a hospital in London.

' W'm R^NU§. (Received This' Day at 8.45 n.m.) , UQNDQN, January 2. Rritish revenue for the past nine months totals £696,251,000, to which customs contributed £111,477,000, excise £94,656,000, income tax £137,144,000; excess profits tax £202,826,000. BRITISH FLEET CRUISE (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) ' • l ’ LONDON, January 1. The British Atlantic Fleet is going pa'a long cruise through phe Mediterranean. ' ft wijl there carry out joint ~ (Tuuipeuvres with a liewly constituted Mediterranean Fleet which is under Adjniral de Boebeck. These manoeuvres will provide for a great display of naval po’tvpr. It will fie bigger than any seen hitherto in this generation, - TURKEY'S FUTURE. (Received This Day at 8.43 a.m.) LONDON, January 1. No final decision has yet been reached regardjhg the future of Turkey and general principles have been agreed to only provisionally pending the firjiil decision at the forthcoming Paris popfei;enee. The general idea at present favours joint Allied possession of the 'Straits and of Constantinople. It is assertpd everything possible will be done in setting: up a npw Turkish capital to avoid offending Moslem susceptibilities. WAR PENSIONS. iBELBOURNE, This Day. The war pensions annual liability now amounts to £6,003,786.