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Hokitika Guardian, 18 February 1920, Page 2

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f I*ER rnESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.! ALLIED LOAN TO CHINA. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) (Delayed in transmission.) PEKIN.. Feb. 13.

An Anglo-American-Eraneo-Japanese memorandum sent to the. Chinese Foreign Office states, in view of the urgent requirements of the Chinese Government, those Governments are prepared to recommend their hanks to issue a loan of £5,090,000 sterling on secured specified revenue, on the condition that (firstly) North and South Chinn resume peace negotiations forth-, with; (secondly) that portion of the proceeds be used in the disbandment of unnecessary troops; (thirdly) that the four Allied Governments and the hanking groups effectively supervise the application of the proceeds of the loan and the disbandments.

ATTACKING THE .MAD MULLAH. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) NAIROBI, Feb. 15. Combined Anglo-Italian action against tlie Mad Mullab is reported to have begun in Abyssinia with the object of clearing the country of his supporters, and concentrating a large force in the vicinity of the Gazag stronghold. In the northern Agnden country there is a crisis, and a force- composed of Africans and Indians, with tanks and aviation detachments, was landed at Derbera. The Italians are establishing a base in Italian Somaliland. The Somalis state the Mad Mullah is preaching a Holy War on behalf of the Sultan of Turkev. A RAID THAT FAILED. (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 16. A determined early morning raid was made on the police barracks at Aghcrn, County Cork. For hours there was a fusilade of revolvers and rifle shots. The garrison, numbering seven, used • bombs to disperse the raiders, one of whom was wounded. The police iound (juantities of explosives in the vicinity of the barracks, which were similarly attacked a fortnight ago. A FATAL FALL. TK AWAMTTTTJ, Feb 17. Charles McPike, aged 48, believed to 1,0 a resident of Otorohanga, was thrown Irom a horse in le Amainiltil today and killed instantly. The horse bolted and when rounding a corner it fell .throwing the rider with great force, against a fence. The impact iiactuied his skull. the legislators depart. WELLINGTON, Feb. 17. The- steamer Mokoia, with the Samoan Parliamentary party aboard, lett for Para tonga at 5.80 a.m., this morning. She took altogether 40 legislators. The steamer will bring back a cargo of raw sugar from the Islands.