MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 27 July 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

f AUBTUAMAN & N.Z. OABUi ABBOeIaTION] A MARATHON MESS. LONDON, July 25. Most of the competitors in the Marathon race, including the Australian, Hewitt, took a wrong road and covered twonty miles before they discovered the mistake. The event was declared off. THE LOUVAIN LIBRARY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) BRUSSELS, July 25. The first consignment of ten thousand hooks from Germany has been restored to the Louvain library. JOINING BELGIUM. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) BRUSSELS, July 25. A.s a result of a plebiscite under the Treaty of Versailles, only 270, (including 201 German officials) voted against annexation of the Eupen Mahnody districts by Belgium. CONVERSION AND CONSCIENCE. (Received Tins Day at 8 a.m.) 1 OTTAWA, July 25. Arnell Love a prosperous young farmer in the town in Ceylon, Ontario, became converted at evangelistic services. He has now confessed ho murdered his mother seven years ago, though his father was convicted and hanged for tin crime. The police are nonplussed as to what action it is advisable to take. The father made a confession of the crime on tho scaffold, apparently for the purposo of shielding the boy. PREPARING FOR EVENTUALITIES (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, July 26. The “Petit Parisian's” Berlin 'correspondent states, believing the Soviet Government- is granting the Polish armistice merely to gain time. The military experts are negotiating with Luden dorff and Hoffman with a view to military collaboration against the Bolsheviks, Germany being rewarded by a suspension of the Treaty and Reichstag of the old eastern frontiers. THE MINERS’ DISPUTE. SYDNEY, This Day. The Coalminers’ Executive considered Mr Hughes’ proposals and decided as the miners had passed a resolution against compulsory arbitration, they were unable to accept them until tho resolution was revoked. Tho district councils are being summoned to consider the position. THE LONG STRIKE. SYDNEY, This Day. Mr Justice Edmonds has been appointed Chairman of the Broken Hill Committee which is investigating the prolonged strike. INTERNAL JMANY. By Electric Telegraph—Copyright,' GERMANY’S NEUTRALITY. LONDON, July 24. Von Simons, speaking on foreign affairs in the Reichstag, declared Germany would not consent to any proposal of the Entente to dispatch assistance to Poland, through Germany, without protest. Any Russian or Polish,troops violating the German frontier would be disarmed. “Vorwaerts’ ’states tho German military frontier force is being reinforced by local defence troops. The frontiers and plebiscite areas will bo guarded by Germans to obviate conflicts between French and Russian troops.