MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 July 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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FRENCH IN PALESTINE. CAIRO, JuJy 18. Advices from Haifa state General Nouri has arrived at Damascus and presented Goiirand’s terms, demanding recognition of France’s mandate over all Syria, unrestricted use of military rail, ways and punislynent of Arab chiefs responsible for the recent outrages, suppression of anti-French movements oil the frontier. Feisal lias convened a war council to discuss the situation. It is feared Hie decision of the Arabs will be determined to fight to the last, even if Damascus submits. The French aro ready for an immediate fight to the last, evon if Damascus submits. The French aro ready for an immediate advance. They are well supplied with aeroplanes and artillery. A later message from Jerusalem states tlie War Council at Damascus ordered a general mobilisation as an answer to the French ultimatum. Gourand awaits a formal reply till the j 19th. If submission is not tendered he proceeds to ooeupy Aleppo and march upon Damascus. The French have already cut Rozav railway junction. Feisal sent an emissary to General Allenby to ask intervention. CAIRO, July 18. Advices from Damascus report the Lebanon Administrative Council declared the independence of Lebanon, after refusing the French mandate. The declaration occasioned surprise, as a majority of the Council are Maronites, who are mostly supporters of the French. The French captured members of the Council who were proceeding to Europe to state their case.

EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE

LONDON, July 18,

Prince Murat and other notabilities, friends of the Empress Eugenie accompanied her body from the -continent. Prince Napoleon and Princess Clementine awaited it at Southampton, where a British naval and military escort march, oil with a gun carriage conveying the body to Farborough Abbey where General Lord Rawlinson and staff received it. A guard of the Second Argylo and Sutherland Highlanders, carrying the King’s colours gave the Royal salute. The burial takes place on Tuesday, beside Napoleon 111. SOUTH AFRICANS AND DELVII.!JO WOOD. CAPETOWN, July 18. At commemoration services throughout South Africa to celebrate the heroic stand made by South Africans in Dolville Wood on the Somme, General Smuts anounced that Doiville M end had become part ol South Airica, Government having purchased a silo where a monument would lie erected. Another monument to South Africans would also be erected near Arras. THE SIMPLE LIFE. (United Service Telegrams) LONDON,. July 17. Rhodes Fisher, a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society appeals for a. thousand Britishers willing to work two hours daily, dress in clothing, and oat plainly to accompany him to Samoa and Marquesas Islands, and live the simple life. Six hundred have already applied. GRAND VIZIER’S ADVICE. (LONDON TIMES SEUVICE—COPYRIOHtJ CONSTANTINOPLE, July 18 The Grand Vizier in an interview stat. ed that the Nationalists attack on Ismid ruined the hopes for a modification of the Treaty. He advises signature, without waiting for the meeting of the Crown Council, demy only making the position worse.

TURKISH MARAUDERS. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 18. British cavalry were engaged in suppressing marauding bands near the city, together with Indian troops. The suppression of a similar outbreak on the Black Sea coast, makes it abundantly clear that the Nationalist forces arc disintegrated, degenerate bands of mercenaries and brigands, chiefly actuated by loot. Disorders in Anatolia are report, ed. The massacre of Greek notables, emphasises the brigandlike nature oi the Nationalist troops. Greek warships have arrived at Smyrna. AMUNDSEN’S EXPEDITION. CHRISTIANIA, July 18. The newspaper “Aftenppsten” states Amundsen’s Expedition passed two hard winters in a new land explored near Tsar Nicholas II land. Amundsen met with an accident, falling from his ship to the ice, breaking his arm. He also had a narrow escape in a fight with a bear.