BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 November 1921, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

WOULD-BE DICTATORS. ROME, Nov. 22

The Fascists have become a separate party. They have issued the folio-,, vul'iiiliirv „,!«». »t "« D,e nation, and will serve service of the n< > < . • t |, e r-rii! iFS-.sf tml • ~ t i ’ state whenever the ourselves for the . . Wc {)f fa( . in , lin'lements of national disintegration.”

rVMII.Y SUFFOCATED. ‘ LONDON, Nov. 22. To-day some police broke into an Eas, .Belfast house, nnd f° They wife and a daughter d«id U •> were gas poisoned, througu bursting a pipe-

DEFENCE RETRENCHMENTS , CAPETOWN, Non 23. v essage from Pretoria states owing to ‘^srfnth^s“i<See "in January. A jTT; suggested that Government is contemplating a reorganisation of the defence force on a modest sea e.

ASIA MINOR HORRORS. ttfcmWs TELEGRAMS -Received ThilTlay at 0.10 LONDON Nov. 2_. \ report by Colonel Rawlins,m lately released by Turks, received ... Dmdon gives an appalling imeount of tin conditlioiis in Asia Minor. Hr * . nine thousand Armenian pusoneis fum Kars were employed in labour gangs in the neighbourhood of Erwrun.. A peirished except eight k-indred Tho Victims were replaced by C.mks 1 - ported from the Coast districts iddeaths in the winter ÜB.wliii.ion ennsiders certain.

BRITISH POLITICS. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) lONDON. November Ni. Sir Kingslev Wood (Coalition unionist member for Woolwich) addressing l,i s constituent's said the liish n go tiations rested on a thread The country might, at an early date, hare pass judgment on the present propoxn s It might well be that such proposals would be presented by » new adniiiustrntion.

french satisfied. (Received Tins Day at HUS a.m ) PARIS. November

Interviewed by a -Matin'’ tative. M. Sarra.it French i for the colonies one of the do egatc. at Washington declared tin- settlement of the Chinese question- satisfied him. The document did not contain a wonthreatening French interests. It was awarded raising irritating difficultirriteting difficulties of the past and dealt justly with the future, but China must re-establish order in China.

UKRANIANS AND BOLSHEVIKS. (Received This Day at 10.15 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, Nov. 22. Reports from Ukraine state a peasant armv with artillery, is now liesiegiiig iKknterinoslav. Trotsky has concentrated three armies against l kranians. All available trains are transporting troops nnd artillery to the southward. Latest advices regarding the Emelian rising show the whole northern part is freed from Bolsheviks, except a few hiding in the forests. Petro-sa-volsk is the only town in Onega district in the hands of the Bolsheviks. The town is completely surrounded and its fat o is uncertain. Many Bolshevik soldiery are deserting and currying favour by imprisoning Coininissiaries.

CILICIA REFUGEES. ATHENS, November 22. Over thirty thousand men, women and children have fled from the Cilicia Coast. Most of them are in a starving condition and relate terrible tales of atrocities suffered at Turkish hands. A British steamer at Messina has taken abroad several hundred re f ogees. CONGRATULATIONS. LONDON, Nov. 23 : ■Messages of congratulations on Princess Marv’s engagement arc pouring into Buckingham Palace from all classes of the community.