BRITISH AND FOREGIN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1922, Page 3

BRITISH AND FOREGIN ITEMS

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

SEIZURE OF ARMS. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) BERLIN, August 5. The Intor-AHied Control Mission discovered a thousand tons of war material, ammunition, rifles and shells during a visit to the fortress of Neisse in Silesia. German militaries tried to prevent a visit. A German officer stood in from of the door of the magazanie declaring the place was mined. Locksmiths had to be employed to open the doors and other parts of the fortress, rOINOAIRE’S VIEWS. PARIS, August 5. When M. Poincaire was informed of the German plot against his life, he was unroved and said the summit always attracts lightning. I have not been President for seven years without knowing I am exposed to anarchists and exasperated German Nationalists. I do not fear them more now than then, but .f struck down T want the world to know why and by whom. FASCISTPS ‘ATTACK. (Received this day at 10.15 a.m.) ROME, August 6. Jpve thousand Fascists attacked Sangiorgie pnlnce where the Genoa Confer ence was held, overcame the guards, and made tho municipal officers prisoners. The defending guards used machine guns and killed three and wounded a large number of fascists. The military tlen took over the po'i nog o! Genoa and restored order. Fifty Fascists motoring at Muggio ■were attacked by Communists who threw a dozen homhs, killing four fascists and wounding twenty-seven. The survivors returned to Muggin and attacked the Communist headquarters. While all fascists in Trieste district imve hfen mobilised. Grave disturbances ure feared, Fascisti raided the Socialist newspaper “,Vi anti” at Milan, wrecked the editorial Department, set (ire to tho newspr' it store on tho Borsagliore. Two Fascisti were killed in the onstufng fight.