BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 February 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS

BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSN., COPYRIGHT. RETURN TO MONARCHCY DESIRED. BUDAPEST, Feb 9. Hapsburg partisans favour the return of Emperor Karl to Budapest as King. This has evoked a reaffirmation by the British High Commissioner in Budapest that the Allies were firmly opposed to the return of the Ha-psburgs to the Hungarian throne, on the ground that Hungary had always been a, strong-hold of selfish ambitions of the Hapsburgs. Meanwhile several politicians in Hungary declare Hungary’s very existence demands the discontinuance of agitation on the throne question. SETTLING EX-SERVICE MEN.

(Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.} , LONDON, Feb 9,

The scheme for the settlement of exservice men formulated by the Ex-offi-cers’ Co-operative Resettlement, it includes the formation of small settlements in the Dominions, starting with Rhodesia, and later Canada, South Africa, and Australasia to which exservice men of the officers type will he sent after previous training in England in farming, and stock-breeding and perhaps also mineralogy. ■ BELGIUM’S HONORED DEAD. j (Received This Day at 8.30 a.tn.) i BRUSSELS, Feb 9. ! The Senate decided-that an unknown soldier shall he buried under a monument to be erected in memory of all Belgian soldiers who fell in the war.

j TURKISH OFFIVSFC. j (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) , LONDON, February 10. j It is understood that the British Government intimated to two separte delegations, representing the Turkish Government and Kemalists, that they cannot J>e received. They must settle their own diffidences and decide who will represent Turkey.

i j WORLD’S WHEAT HARVEST. (Received This Day at 10 40 a.in.) ROME, Feb. 10. The Agricultural Institute states the 1920 wheat harvests amounted to 331,250,000 quarters, compared with an j average for the previous five years of ' 333,750,000 quarters.