MISCELLANEOUS HEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1924, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS HEMS.

IUKTKALIAN AND N.Z. RADLI ASSOCIATION. FRAXCO-GER-oAN AGRKEAIENT PARIS, Oet. 12. Negotiations for a Franco-German Commercial Treaty are at present ended. but will he resumed oil Nov. sth., alter the German delegates have conferred with their Government. Although France declined to give Germany the most favoured nation treatiiiciit. Lite course of negotiations so far is dost-rilioil ns; satisfactory.

- k(;yl>t\s dkstuks. PARIS. ()ct. 12. c Zaghlul told the “Alatin” that he was determined to force the British I evacuation of Egyjit, employing diplomatic methods, at least temporarily. ■ .MURDER OF EX-FASCIST. ROAIE, October 12. 1 l.erfua, a disabled soldier, aged 28, who recently left the Fascist Party, was murdered in the village of 1 Roncaglia, where he attended a dance, ' and stayed overnight, sharing a boil with a peasant. During the night, a gang of men. all muffled up, and wearing goggles, entered the bed-room, gagged the peasant, and heat Larina to death with cudgels. AI.P.’S DEATH. LONDON. Octobr 13. Air Rupert GWynne. Conservative ALL’., for Sussex South, is dead. POLAND’S STERN ACTION. AVARS AAV, October 12. A number of Parliamentarians, hacked hy the' Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish clergy, arc promoting a BiH to prohibit the wearing or tho display in the shops of low-necked, sleeveless dresses which outline the figure of women. Women who are attired in the height of the present fashion are. already forhidden to enter the churches and .synagogues. A SISTER’S QUESTION. LONDON, October 13. AMiile Air ile Valera was speaking at a Republican demonstration in Bamlo, a young woman in deep mourning cried out: “Who murdered my brother Dean Hales.” Air De Valera replied : “1 don’t know.” Aliss Hales retorted: “Your Army Executive signed bis .death warrant.” Hales was murdered in the street in Dublin while driving to the Dail Eireanu. IRAQ QUESTION GRAVE. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oct. 12. Premier Kemal Pasha is returning to Angora, owing to the gravity of tho Turko-Rritish situation in Iraq. A message from Angora states that the Commander of the British Forces has sent a letter to the Turkish Commander. demanding a clear understanding as to the territorial status quo. The Turkish Cabinet sat all night. GREEKS ORDERED OUT. CONSTANTINOPLE. Oet. 12. The Turks are violating the decisions of the Commission dealing with the ransforenec of Greeks from Turkey, which were the result of the GraecoTurkish war. The Turks have ordered thirty thousand Greeks, settled in Constantinople. to leave the country within ten days, after which they would he forcibly expelled.