MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 June 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

AUBTIULIAN & N.Z. CAULK ASKOCIA'iSO.VJ

AUSTRIAN- POLITICS. VIENNA, June 12. Chancellor Renner has resigned, with the Social Democratic members from the Coalition Government owing to acute differences with the Christian Socialists, who threatened to leave the Coalition.

AN ASSASSINATION. PARIS, 'June 12. General Essad Pasha ex-dictator of

Albania and head of the Albanian Delegation to Paris was shot dead by an Albanian youth outside bis hotel. The assailant when arrested said he acted upon a sudden impulse, owing to the sufferings of Albanians in Constantinople.

ESSAD PASHA’S END . PARIS, June 13. Essad Pasha was entering a motor

from the Hotel Continental when Rustem, who was hiding behind a pillar, shot him twice with a revolver. The second bullet penetrated his heart, and Essad dropped dead. Porters seized Rustem, whom a crowd half lynched. Rustem said he wished to avenge the Albanians’ wrongs, and that Essad Pasha had plotted against the liewly formed Albanian Republic Government.

DID NOT TAKE WARNING. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, June 14

It transpires that Essad Pasha reeeiv. ed a warning a week ago, but did. not take precautionary measures. Rustem apparently carried out the decision of a secret society. Rustem said:—l acted on behalf of an Albanian cause.

GENERAL WRANGEL’S SUCCESS PARIS, June 12. General Wrangcl has achieved his first objective in the new advance. He captured at Melitipol, five thousand prisoners, twenty-seven guns, and five armoured trains.

TAX ON WHEAT AND FLOUR. BUENOS AIRES, June 12. The Senate passed the Bill imposing an export tax on wheat and flour. MESOPOTAMIA TROUBLE. LONDON, June 13.

The “Times,” in a loader, condemns the reticence of the authorites regarding the attack on the. British in Mesopotamia, and declares the concealment of unfavourable news can no-longer be tolerated. There have been too much secrecy of military operations in Mesopotamia. Permanent occupation might involve a continuous warfare, which i s more costly than a frontier operation, the latter is defrayed by the Indian Exchequer, whereas the adventures m Ale. sopotnmia and Persia are chargeable on the Home Budget.