MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 11 November 1920, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

“ -.uKIfIALIAN iSc N.Z. CAULS ASSOCIATION] COMPANIES REGISTERED. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) 1 LONDON, November 10. 5 Companies registered in United KingI dom in 1919 numbered 10,725 with a } 1 nominal capital of nearly 418 millions ■ compared with 3,504, with 128 millions ’ capital in 1918. ELECTRICIAN STRIKE' ENDS. (Received Tliis Day at 9.45 a.m.) BETRiLiIN, November 10. The electricians leaders have decided 1 to end the strike as a ballot resulted in a majority of only sixteen hundred l being in favour of its continuance. AMALGAMATING. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) 1 AMSTERDAM, November 10./ 1 The Deutsch Petroleum Aklingesellschaft is amalgamating with the Doubtsolie Erdel Company, jit is understood the Royal Shell Company partici- | pates in the fusion and that the co-ope-ration of French, British and Dutch j companies will be solicited. A JAPANESE ATTACK. (Received Tliis Day at 9.45 a.m.) TOKIO, November 9. The Foreign Office announces that Japanese troops killed twenty Koreans and destroyed the mission and school near Lungtskhingtshun. The Japanese attack was the result of reports that tho mission was contributing funds to Korean insurgents. INSURGENT SURRENDERS. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 10. Abdul Wahd, commander of Mesopotamian insurgents, has surrendered unconditionally. He is under a British guard at Kufn Bay. UNOPPOSED. (Received Tliis Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Nov. 10. , J. C. Davidson (Coalition Unionist) was returned unopposed for Hemel Hempstead. ■' j IN GEORGIA AND ARMENIA. j (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 10 ( Remnants of the Armenian army are reported to be retiring to Novo Bayazed, near Lake Guokoha. It is stated ( the Armenian Government are suing for peace, but the Commander-in-Chief of j the Kemalist forces demand the pre- j liminary surrender of all arms. s The Soviet has sent an ultimatum to ( Georgia, demanding immediate cessation of negotiations with Wrangel and j a rupture of relations with the Entente j Powers, also the suspension .of com- j . merce therewith and promises in return to furnish all the oil and gold required. t The Georgian Government lias ordered j. a general mobilisation at Sebastopol.. j During the Bolsheviks’ cavalry raid r on Talkado, Kilpatrick, representative ■ of the American Red Cross, and two nurses, were brutally killed. ( Wrangel’s troops carried out their j retreat behind fortified lines in splendid j order, taking with them the booty pre- T viously captured. ■ Red attacks on Efevekop were repulsed with heavy losses. 0 ■ v D’ANNUNZIO AGAIN. t (Received This Day at 12.20 p.m.'l LONDON, Nov. 10. ~ The “Daily Express” states D’An- r nunzio has broken out again and seized j, an important point called Seoglio San- j marco, near Buccari, which is likely to j, endanger the hopes of an Adriatic g peace. ______ I