BRITISH S FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 October 1922, Page 2

BRITISH S FOREIGN ITEMS.

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empire exhibition. LONDON, October IG. The gua-antee Fund of the British ■Empire Exhibition amounts to £1,166COO. but the promoters hope that it will be doubled in order that their hands will he strengthened in the development of Empire trade, especially as all the profits are. to he divided among the Government’s of Great Britain and the Dominions and the Colonies, for , public purposes, in proportion to the area occupied. The Dominions and the Colonies have i ready hooked seven hundred thousand square feet. JUGO-SLAVS RESENT FASCISTI INVASION. LONDON, Oct. 15. The “Morning Post’s” Belgrade correspondent states: —“Jugo-Slavia is seriously alarmed by a Fascisti invasion of the Fiume area. The invasion is made in order to prevent the Italians from having to evacuate the third zone and Sushak. Skirmishing between the Fascisti, also Gabrielle D’Annunzio’s Legionaries and Jugo-Slavia has begun. There wore some casualties. Jugo-Slavia is now calling on its Government to take immediate steps tn deal with this Fascisti invasion. At the same time the Jugo-Slavia Nationalistic movement, numbering 80,000 members, is mobilising bands to march to Sushak to meet the Italians. TYPHUS SCOURGE. TOKIO, Oct. Ifi. Korean advices state that one thousand Japanese are afflicted with typhus and 280 have died.