BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 2 March 1925, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

AUSTRALIAN ANI) N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION THE LONDON MYSTERY. LONDON. March 1. Ekisler recovered consciousness for 20 minutes during the afternoon and made j a full and important statement. Scotland Yard immediately telephoned the Paris Prefect of Police. Ekisler is improving, hut liis condition is still critical. FRENCH STATEMENT. PARIS,' March I. M. Hcrriot in a statement before the Senate Foreign Affairs Committtce on the subject of Inter-Allied debts, said the French debt would have to he subject to a reduciou equivalent to that which the French claim on Germany had sustained ami account must he taken ol the British claim oil Russia, whose lack of assets should not recoil on France. Italy, Franco and Rouin.nnin simply refused to pay unless the question of reparation were taken into account. GERMAN PROTEST. BERLIN. March I. Germany’s seventh protest to the League of Nations against the presence ot I< reach troops in Saar is more strongly worded than its predecessors. It declares the position is not improv-j ed despite the assurance from the Council of the Longue over a year ago. that the employment of French troops was purely temporary. It contends that the present situation violaes the clearest stipulations of the Peace Treaty. OTAGO CASES. DUNEDIN, March 2.

The total infantile paralysis cases in hospitals in Otago district in weekend was 11; 7 in Dunedin hospital. I at Clyde hospital, 1 Rieverton anil 2 at Oamaru.