MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1920, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

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NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT. •i (Received this day at 9.30 n.m.) PARIS, September 22. M. Milleraiid has been'elected President of France.

A QUAKE RECORD. (Received this day at 9.30,a.m.) ZURICH, Sr#emel:,v 22. The seismological station recorded seismic disturbance at 3.56 on Monday of which the centre was fourteen thousand kilometres distant, probably m the Pacific northeast of Australia,

RED ATROCITIES. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) VIENNA, September 22. There is terrible persecution in pastern Galicia by General Petlura and his men. Hundreds of children wwe killed being slaughtered before their mother’s eyes. Many young gilds were violated and drunken soldiers set fire to a. great number of Jews by means of a combustible liquid.

SOVIET NAVY. HELSINGFORS, September 22. The newspaper “Svenski Tidnangen” states the Soviet naval staff has succeeded in restoring to fighting trim the dreadnought Retropaholsk lying at Kronstadt; also three light cruisers of the Novik type, which only lack fuel. Three submarines are practically ready for action lying at Vasil iostrov.

ENQUIRY AT SAMOA. (Received this day. at 0.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, September 23. Mr Daniels announced that RearAdmiral Hughes will be sent to Samoa to investigate the alleged maladministration of American Samoa. A court of inquiry will assist Mr Hughes.

JAPANESE AIMS. TOKIO, September 22. The newspaper “Hoclri Shimbun state's the Japanese Government, as a result of a recent Cabinet meeting, will vigorously pursue negotiations concerning American anti-Japanese legis ation and firmly keen before the League of Nations the question of racial equalxty. The Federal representative Koluma, address a public meeting on the subject of an American Japanese war. He denounced American militarism, saying that so long as a threatening nation existed beyond the Pacific, Japanese naval expansion could not cease. The police interfered and silenf.ed the sp^tilcd** Count Sara addressing the provincial Governors said the situation in the world was never more strained than atpresent. Japan’s problems hitherto had ibeon confined to the Orient. I’" 4 national eompetiion had arisen resulting in a marked increase in Japan's responsibility to the world and the expansion of her national expendituie.