MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 April 1926, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.]

AUSTRIA’S PLIGHT

UNION IN GOVERNMENT

LONDON, April 5

A. “Daily Express” special correspondent at Vienna states: "Vatican influences are a powerful factor in Central Eurojie. Those have abandoned a formerly cherished plan for the ultimate restoration of the Hapshurgs in Austria, anil Prince RupprecTit in Bavaria. Instead, the Vatican is supporting the union of Austria with Germany. This would add four million Roman Catholic. Austrians to Germany, making the Roman Catholic population of Germany To per cent, which, it is believed, would lie sufficient, with the aid of one other party', to give tin* Catholics political dominance in Germany. Austria is at present in a very serious plight with three hundred thousand dole-drawing unemployed out of a total of six millions. Austria is being throttled by Czeeho-Slovakia’s, Poland’s, and Jugoslavia’s fantastic prohibitive duties. Ninety per cent of the Austrians regard union with. Germany as their only hope of salvation lrom stalign- j lation and ruin.

A SOHO MURDER. LONDON, April 6

The foreign quarter of Soho was thrilled last evening by a man dashing hat less from a duh with blood streaming from a wound in his head, despite which, he escaped. The police then found a man dead in the club. They drew a cordon round the vicinity and detained the members while investigating.

It is believed that tho two men quarrelled suddenly about a woman while drinkinfi uml playim; cards. Detectives boarded a channel sieaincr at Newhaven List night just before her departure for Dieppe, anil del .lined a Frenchman in connection with ihe murder of a companion, Charles Bidladder, who was shot dead in a Soho club. ■