MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1920, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. SOCIALIST CONGRESS. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) • PARIS, December 26. According to the preliminary votes at the Socialist Congress now -being held at Tours concerning arrangements of Jibe agenda, the Caching section, which advocates the closer co-operation with Moscow, is for the moment in a majority. The longest central section refuses ” to agree to such whole-hearted adhesion while a third section refuses co-opera, „ ticn. Some speakers declared that the small peasant farmers in their respective departments were zealous supporters of the Moscow programme. . BRITISH IN PERSIA. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) PARIS, December 26>. The “Echo do Paris” learns from Teheran that the statements made in the British Parliament regarding the evacuation of Persia by the British troops caused commotion throughout the country. Many Anglo-French residents are preparing to quit Persia, and the banks are winding up their affairs. The British Legation will probably not remain. The Persian Government has accepted tlie establishment- of a Bolshevik Legation. '

•A GERMAN MOVE. (Received This Day at 8.40 a.m.) PARIS, December 26. “Le Journal” states it is reported that the Geinnan and Austrian Government’s have drawn up a addressed to the League of Nations asking Austria to be attached to Germany. General Simons and Count Clzernin are believed to be the authors of the document. DUKE OF CONNAUGHT ILL. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.’m.) LONDON, December 21. A dispatch from Suez states the-Duke of Connaught bound for India, is ill, on the Malay. GERMAN PROPERTY IN BELGIUM. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, December 26. According to a dispatch from Brussels Belgium intends to renounce her rights of confiscation over German property in Belgium according to the treaty. It is said Belgium will announce this decision after consulting the Allies, but considters the renunciation necessary from a commercial point of view. ' GERMAN ’ARMY. . BERLIN, December 26. It is officially announced that the effectives in the German army have been reduced to 100,000 according to the Spa Agrement. . , PRESSES DESTROYED, (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 27.

Thirty disguised armed men raided the Cork “Examiner,” and wrecked the printing presses with bombs, though they spared the linotypes. No arrests have been made. AT A DANCE. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) x LONDON, December 26.

The Crown forces surprised a dance meeting at Bluff, Linierick, within the martial law area. The forces were fired on from the hall, a policeman being killed. .The fire was returned and five civilians were killed. All bore arms. There were 148 prisoners detained.