BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 September 1921, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

USTUALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. .JAPANESE MILITARY POUCY. TOK rO, Sept. 1 2 It is definitely understood that Oen-m-;ii Tanaka will l>« the Japanese miliary delegate to the ArmitmcK Conic re nee. Some evidence of a stirring np of Japanese seiitiinem respecting Tar Eastern questions, as a result of the proposed conference, can he -cell by the paper “Nichi-nio' i’s” announcement, that the Army leaders af the abatement of the Japanese Tvcntv-Onc Demands on China, hilt provided that Japan is permitted to purchase rights in Port Arthur and m Southern Manchuria. The newspaper adds: “Japan will oiler this programme to the Conference, even expressing a willingness to withdraw her troops from Northern, and from Central Chinn, provided mat c hina will open the interior tor iorlign trade. It says a withdrawal of Japanese lorees I rum Siberia a ill also he assured} after a RussO-JapaneSC' fommercilil treaty lias been secured. It adds that Japan will' offer to reduce her army to 21 divisions. HAPSBFRJGS’ POST PROPERTIES. I.ONDON. Sept. 12. . Negotiations have been concluded wherchv a powerful American syndicate V.ill champion the claims of the Austrian Archduke Kid,-rick against the various ventral European got rrnmohts, which have sequestrated and emins'oate«l his properties estimated to he ivortl! £10,000,000 Sterling consisting ot land and industrial holdings, including steel works ami mines at ies'.tvU. The return of the : ' q ert.v the syndicate is anxious to ; ccurc with a view to the resumption of operi'tions on American lines. AFfcTRIAX FORCES SENT OFT. LONDON, Sept. U The “Times” Vienna correspondent stys:' “The Austrian Government is despatching all the available troops i,, protect the Austrian frontier ngatsst t'ne Hungarian insurgents who are now looting Austrian territory. The first Austrian brigade marched through Vienna on Sunday. Ail advance body if Austrians crossed the Leitlia Ricer at Itruek, and has entered Hungarian territory with the full sanction of t-ho filler-. Vllied C out mission.

THEaiCEST EXPEDITION. CAPETOWN, Sept. 12. Professor Jaddard. professor of g«o----lugy and zoology at Stellenhasch Univorsity litis been nominated to till the hist vacancy on the staff of the Quest . Expedition reserved for South Africa. DEUTSCHI .A NI) EXPLOSION. LONDON, Sept. Im Five have died in conneetion with the submarine Deiitsoldand exiilocioll. 1 FKENCH DISTKFST OF H.EUMAVY ; I’.’KIS, Sept. Iv. , Ex-President lVnmaire kits laic* many artivh»s en the lidfilment of the Peace terms in the newspapers. These were the deepest distrust of (lorm-illT and insist on the security of Frame!*He demands the strictest application of the penalties provided for in the Peace treaty for any default by ■ (ierinany.

M. Poincaire eontribut s to “1.0 Temps” a lengthy article revealing th,, secret negotiations at the Peace Conference between M. Clemonceau, Mry Lloyd George and ex-President M ilson, regarding the military occupation of the Rhine Provinces. M. Poincaire, as President, with the aid of M. Ciemencenu, and Marshal Foclt, used their utmost influence to secure the insertion in the Peace Treaty of a clavse enabling the Allies to occupy the Rhine provinces until Germany carried cut all the treaty conditions, including the full payment of the reparations, which would take a minimum of 30 years. .Mr T.lovd George and Air Wilson refused to extend the period for the occupation of the Rhine beyond 15 years, preforms a still shorter period. M. Clomenceau finally reluctantly agreed to ]5 years, after Mr Lloyd George and Afr Wilson had signed an agreement hy which llritain and America undertook to send to France military atd if she were attacked without provocation hv Germany. This agreement, which was dependent on ratification by the British and American Parliaments, has become a dead letter, ry the American Senate’s refusal to ratify t :e Peace Treaty. , f . Af. Poincaire’s article in “Le Temps suggests that France should now demand new guarantees in regard .toGermany’s fulfilment of the Peace Treaty as the terms under which Fram-c’ agreed that the occupation of the Rhine area should he reduced to 15 years have been broken. SPANISH OFFENSIVE.

(Received This Day at 9 30 a.m.) At ADR ID, Sept. 12. Official. —An offensive was launched at AleliJln; to-day.