BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 July 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION.

GREAT .GREEK SUCCESS

30,060 PRISONERS

. ATHENS, July 20. A semiofficial account of operations in Asia Minor states that Turkish positions were overwhelmed by a series of turning movements. Thus Krithia, * which was defended by 160 guns, was abandoned owing to a concentric advance of four columns, ending a f«ui days’ battle. It is estimated that **30,000 Turks were taken prisoner. It is hoped the advance now proceeding will cut the Turkish communibetween Krithia, tskishehi and Angpra, and enable a Greek success at Krithia to be repeated.

ACTION FROM INDIA. LONDON, July 20

Mr Sastri, Indian delegate at the Imperial Conference, will visit Canada Australia and New Zealand in the autumn unofficially. Then he proceeds to Fiji to join another delegate to be appointed by the Indian Government. The two will, act as a commission of inquiry into the treatment of Indians and their living and working conditions in Fiji. It is understood that indentured labour will ho abolished, and that the Fiji Government will be asked to allow such Indians as are willing to work in Fiji, to bring their families there and purchase land on the termination of their term of service.

A GREEK SUCCESS. {Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) ATHENS, July 21 Greeks occupied Eskishohr after a serious struggle. They are continuing the pursuit of Turks rapidly, A NARROW ESCAPE.

{Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) ATHENE, July 21

A OiAjek communique asserts Kemnl narrowly escaped during an aid raid on Kutalia on Saturday. A bomb fell m front of his quarters, killing four officers jitid several men, and wounding 20.

A RUSSIAN APPEAL. . (Received This Day at 9.40 a.m.) PARIS, July 21

A communique of the Russian ( onstituent Assembly, an anti-Soviet organisation, has issued an appeal to the peoples and Governments of the civilised world on behalf of Russia’s hunger and disease stricken people, requesting all Governments to make common cause With the Soviet in fighting the menace. It suggests methods of concerted action which will not strengthen the Communists power and urges political considerations because the lives of millions are jeopardised.

,T ARAN ICS E ATTACK K 1). SAN FRANCISCO, July 21 At Turlock. California, aroused by the Chamber of Commerce failure to sanction a boycott against Japanese, raiding parties forced all the Japanese residents of Turlock on trucks, drove them to an isolated railway station and placed them on an outgoing train. The citizens were angered by the fact that the Orientals wero„ working for lower wages, and forced the whites out ol fruit workers jobs. REFUNDING DEBTS. 1 WASHINGTON, July 21 The Senate Finance Committee informed Mr Mellon that' until be lu.s ■ further studied refunding of foreign debts, Congress will not vote on his re- ' quest for unrestricted authority to negotiate refunding agreements. i

STARVING RUSSIANS. STOCKHOLM, July 21 Twenty-five, million Russians are

threatened with starvation. Riots curred in some districts.

PEARL AVHITE DIVORCED. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 20.

Pearl White received a divorce from her second husband, Major Wallace McLueheon, at Providence, on the grounds of desertion.

BANK RATE. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) LONDON, July 21. The hank rate is,s) per cent.

GREEK ADVANCE STOPPED

PARIS. July 21

An Angora communique states the Greek advance has been held up on all fronts. Turks have occupied Gueuelik.

FRENCH AND POLAND

WARSAW, July 21

ft is reported France and Poland have concluded a treaty under which the latter undertakes to maintain a standing army of six hundred thousand, France' contributing a gold franc daily towards the maintenance of each man. In the event of France wholly or partially settling the Upper SileIsian question. Poland undertakes to grant France’s right to develop all mines in Pless Ryderik districts. In the event of the Supreme Council assigning Upper Silesia to Poland she will assign forty per cent of the capital in German industries to France.

WASHINGTON CONFERENCE. LONDON, July 21. Speaking as the guest of the American Luncheon Club at Savoy Hotel, Mr Hughes said if the Washington Conference is not to produce the same dead sea fruit as the League of Nations, i|t must! take cognisance of

those principles which mean much between men and between nations. Certainly it cannot hope to get what the world desires out of it, unless the great Pacific problems arc faced frankly and cleared out of the way. The great object of the Conference is (to get America, Japan and Britain to disarm but this is impossible until the disturbing factors of the Pacific are removed. A conference to discuss these questions must be held first and on that Conference Australia and New Zealand must bp represented.