MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

i j (Cy Electric Telegraph —Copyright I TEE TERRIBLE TURK. .1 (Received this day at 11.25 u.ui.j j ' WASHINGTON, March h I The State Department learns tli t 0 ; the Turks in Cilicia cut the railroad 1 yond Adana, massacred 5,000 Armei ans, and fought a pitched battle wi the French, whom they drove back Manash. 1 LONDON WOOL SALES. (Received This Day at 11.20. a.m.) LONDON, V«)y. 27. The wool sales closed firm. 145,0< bales were offered, and about 138,0( were sold. The withdrawals were clii* 1 ' ly lower crossbred. Competition w< well maintained throughout. Goc - greasy combing merinos averaged aboi e per cent above the Januar !- level; fine crossbreds slightly belo : January; medium and coarse 5 P« 1 cent beiow; fine scoureds and slipes pa to 7i below. : GERMAN FOOD SUPPLY. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) BERLIN, February 27. Owing to large Government' } ur- . chases from South America food situa ; , tio is far more favourable, and tbetv is no longer a fear of a crisis. Huge quantities of maize and other cereal* have "Been purchased on good terms,

and ample tonnage is available. TH® (BORDER WARFARE. (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.) , , BOMBAY* February 27. Yesterday messengers arrived at t:,i British camp at Tatdatkinlia announcing the complete surrender of the tribes and Government rifles during the day. Subsequently 300 tribesmen arrived and delivered a strange assort ment of firearms representing the tribal rifles and several Lewis guns, 'I’ll: tribes were informed that the .delivery was inadequate and did not fulfil the (condjitiouis imposed. Consequently a settlement was not possible. The tr’b’smen departed. To-dlay a deputation representative of the whole Mahsr.'i tribe arrived and pleaded for a week to collect the Government rifles. Thev were given two days to completely stir, render.