SEVERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17689, 29 July 1919, Page 5

SEVERAL ITEMS

MISSING BRITISH SOLDIERS. MAKING- A THOROUGH SEARCH. LONDON, July 23 (delated). In order to exhaust the fato of all men Missing during the war, the Government is sending a special mission to tour Belgium and Northern France and examine peasants and others likely to havo been in touch with men in hiding in occupied territories.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ITALY'S DIFFICULTY. A LACK OF COAL. ROME, July 27. Signor Devitto, Minister of Transport, admitted in the Chamber of Deputies that a grave situation, exists in Italy owing to the lack of coal. Other speakers expressed indignation at the ungrateful attitude of the Allies towards Italv.—A. and N.Z. Cable. EX-EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA. PROBABLE SANCTUARY TN ENGLAND. VIENNA, July 20. The ex-Emperor Karl will shortly bo visiting the King of England to arrange financial questions, and there is a possibility that he may reside in England — The Times. THE CANADIAN RIOT. RINGLEADERS SENTENCED. LONDON, July 23. A verdict of "Not guilty" of manslaughter was returned against seven Canadians in connection with the Epsom Camp attack in mid-June, but five of them were sentenced to a year's imprisonment for fairing part' in a riotous assembly.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE CROIX DE GUERRE. ■ " SYDNEY, July 28. The I'rench Croix de Guerre has been awarded to Sergeant-major W. A. Levick a New Zealander. ' DEMOBILISED SOLDIERS' PROCESSION. MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR FALLEN. LONDON, July 27. (Received July 28, at fi.o'p.m.) Thirtj'. thousand discharge:; demobilised soldiers marched in procession in the streets, saluted the Whitehall cenotaph, and participated in the memorial service for the fallen in Hyde Park.—A. and N.Z Cable. ITALIAN REVOLUTIONARY PLOT. ORGANISED ABROAD. . ROME, July 27. (Received July 28, at 8.5 p.m.) The newspaper Popolo Romano reports that the Government has discovered a conspiracy, organised abroad to assist Italian revolutionary groups to bring .about a revolution, workmen and peasants being promised a' division of the land — A. and N.Z. Cable.