BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 April 1925, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN NEWS

[Reuters Telegrams.] 111NDEN HUR G’S IvNOWL E DC. E. BERLIN, April 13. Liidendorf. interviewed, said that President Coolitlge’s noble and sublime intentions would collapse through human deficiencies. The Versailles Treaty was the greatest lie in history, because it avowedly disarmed Germany in order to introduce a world disarmament which had proved a chimera; therefore, Germany had a right to demand that her arms be restored. The Socialists are launching an attack on Hinilcnburg, whose colleagues describe him as a simple person whose knowledge is confined to casinos and parade grounds. Ho never made a mistake in peaceful manoeuvres, but other brains, notably Ludendorif’s attT Hoffmann’s, were behind llindeiiburg’s war-time victories. FRINGE OF WALES. ACCRA, April 13. After receiving an address front the Legislative Council the Prince of At ales met the chiefs of the Central Province and his highness spoke to each of the forty chiefs, after which a stately procession marched from the arena through the town. CLASHES WITH FASCIST!. ROAfE, April 11. As a reprisal for the murder of a Faseisti, sjtccial squads ot Fascisti armed with heavy clubs patrolled Bolonga, searched the bouses and clubbed hundreds of people indiscriminately, several of whom were sent to the hospital. The popular party's headquarters at Farina were set on fire, but the police prevented a Fascist attack iyt the Railway Union’s headquarters at Bolonga. The police then themselves occupied the premises and declared the Union dissolved. They arrested the Union. COLONIAL SECRETARY’S FLIGHT. ■BAGDAD, April 1-1. The Hnn. L. C. Al. S. Amer.v (Colonial Secretary), and Sir Samuel Hoar© (Secretary of Air) leave Bagdad on the 1-1 th. April bv air for Zilla, en route to Palestine, having visited all the principal areas of Iraq. OBITUARIES. TDK JO, April 14. Obituary—Hiratn. ex-Privy Seal.