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Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1921, Page 3

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CABLE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. oocsT OF WAR. AN AMERICAN REPORT. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 5 Senator Spencer.has filed a report in the Senate stating the gross cost of the war to the Allies is 177,402,269,225 dollars, which will be reduced to j 139,702,269,225 dollars after the credit ; of indemnities is deducted. The report points out that while Japan spent less than one per cent as much as United States, she received Shantung and Northern Pacific Islands, while United States received nothing. Mr Spencer adds—We might expect Britain to extend to United States, Germany’s interests in Samoa or at least divide them, but it is not so. It was expected that the north of the Equator Islands would be conceded to United States, but they were given to Japan instead. The report concludes—“lt will lie found that United States spent 670 million •dollars more than any other nation on the war.” _ NEW YORK, March o. Jacob Schaeffer, son of a former famous billiardist, beat Edward Hoimans, a Belgian champion, by 48uu points, in an 18.2 balk line match. Herman’s score was 4363. kOiaeffer set a new world’s record run of 436 “points. ITALIAN RAIDERS. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) ROME, March 6. Communists armed with rifles, burned the naval workshops at Trieste. 11 encounter took place with troops, _ killed or wounded being numerous. election results. (Received this day at 8 a.m l LONDON, March <>• Kirkcaldy is the Coalition’s thirteenth loss, and Labour’s seventh gam since the general •lection. The triple alliance meets shortly to advise a common policy in opposition to the sectional wage reduction propositions. March and April are regarded as Labour’s most critical months. A BW "FAMILY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) ] ' LONDON, March (>■ ] \ Hayday labour member for Not-, ( tingham* in the House of Commons has ( just bad bis eighteenth child bom to , him. Thirteen of them arc living. A TRAIN DISASTER, ißeceived This Day at 8 a m.) VEIU CRUZ, March ■>. Fourteen persons were killed and thir-ty-two injured in a train wreck cause by strikers disconnecting the air brakes off a leaping train as it descended a „ ra de crashing into another train. CAPTURE OE KRONSTADT. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) f WASHINGTON, March 5. ( The Finnish Legation is officially ad- t vised that Russian revolutionaries have captured the Soviet fortress of Kronstadt. • ;1 WARNING TO COSTA RICA- | (Received this day at 8 a.m.) ~ WASHINGTON. March 5. p Air Hughes following a conference ( with A'iessrs Harding Deiibv and Weeks, , has issued similar notes to Costa Rica p and Panama, demanding an immediate halt 'in hostilities and intimating the intervention of American forces. FRA NCE AND A M ERI CA. t M. VIVIANNI LEADS A MISSION. t s (Received this day at 8 a.m.) ( NEW YORK, March 5. f The New York Times correspondent | learns authoritatively that the French Government will shortly send M. Vivi- '] a.nni as a. special envoy to United States to plead before the new administration and American people, France’s p case. Ho will point out the hardships | which a separate peace between Germany and United States would inflict on France, which does not believe United States will enter into such an arrangement, if she really understood the disadvantages it means to the Allies. , France believes America can make reservations to the Treaty will protect , her sovereignty and at the same time permit her to co-operate with the Allies. AL Vivianni will not speak of debt can collation but will point out to Air Harding that France intends to make Germany fulfil the Treaty which Europe cannot throw overboard. Tt is a law' of Europe, which any nation dealing with Europe cannot disregard AL Vivianni will remain a week in Washington and a week in New York. ( 1 INDIAN FRONTIER. j BEUTEII’s TELEGRAMS. 1 (Received this day. at 11.30 a.m.) i DELHI, March 4. , The AViinawyar situation is unehang- 1 ed. The lines of rifles are being slowly i deposited, and distant sections are not making concerted efforts to return rifles. The recalcitrant village Knstan was destroyed. The Alahsud situation is pot improved, Numerous cases of spiping and attacks on picqiiets and convoys are reported. On 18th. February a repairing party of 230 I’unjabs were ambushed. Eight were killed and three wounded. STARVING REFUGEE CAM PR. (Reeciwd this day at 1.2.25 p.m) LONDON, March 6. The “Alorning Post’s” Belgrade correspondent says an English colonel visited the Creek refugee camps at Salonika where there art fourteen thousand Russian fugitives of Greek descent and language. Veni/.elos brought them there for the purpose of colonising the desolated districts of Thrace and Macedonia. They are housed in old British huts. The Greek Government now sends the refugees nothing and they are slowly starving to death. Carts come each morning to collect fifty or more corpses, which are first stripped of their rags by the other refugees, and then plunged into pits.