BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 October 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. VIEWS ON CENTRAL EUROPE. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 3. A, leading American financier, who returned to Paris after a four months journey in the small states of Eastern Europe, says everywhere he found signs of feverish arming, hampering atfiwpts at reconstruction. -Money was being squandered on war policies, mstead of on an economic policy n o 4F chief disturbing element being Hungary. He declared so long as this situation continues America "ill decline to. extend sorely needed long term credits. IN CASPIAN SEA. .Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 3 According to Azerbaijan information Rureaux, London, thousands of casualties occurred in a fierce battle lfctwecn Rolshevist troops and .Moslems at Baku. It appears Azerbaijan insurgents hoisted the national flag scribed “Independence or death. Rolshevist warships in the Caspian Sc. thereupon fired on the town trnm which, after stubliorn fighting, the Tartars retired to Azerbaijan. A Hcu regiment joined the insuigen s. 1 reported the Bolshevists have offcicd to negotiate. THE BUROENLAND TROUBLE. REUTER'S TELEGRAMS. (Received This Day at 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 3. There is anxiety in authoritative quarters in London regarding Hurpcn-j land, as hitherto there were no sign, of preparations for carrying out the evacuation terms ol the Allied inatnm, expiring at c . noteworthy that the Allies s ■ not agreed upon the natu.e military steps against Hung:.,j, m the event of non-evacuation.

PARSON IN TROUBLE. UNIT KB SERVICE TELEGRAMS. (Received This Day at 1.30 P-»W LONDON, Oct. 3 Reverend Borrill, declaring he was unable to pay the rate levied by Islington Borough Council, is defying an order of tho Court committing him to prison. He lias barricaded himself in his house and shifts of detectives watch the House day and night. P nends supplv Borre.ll with food, which is drawn up from the street to the windows ... baskets. A TRAGIC AEE AIR. REUTER’S TELEGRAMS. (Received This Day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, Oot. 3. A tragic affair occurred in* the gallery of the Town Hall a.t a dance in aid of Republican prisoners’ dependants. The fracas started outside and shots broke the windows, ami the dancers threw themselves upon the floor to escape the living bullets, one of which struck and killed Lieut. 50.,c1.0n ol the Seventeenth Lancers, who was motoring past the hall. Another sevioulv wounded a (.unstable. The cause of tiie trouble is not certain. One version is that Crown forces attempted to enter the hall without payment. Another that Republican police tried to search Crown forces in the vicinity of the building.