A POLISH SUCCESS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3499, 29 May 1920, Page 5

A POLISH SUCCE SS.

' Received 10.10. ‘LONDON, May 28, A Warsaw com*munique states the Polish troops out ofi the Bolsheviks’ forces and crossed the Beresina, south of Borisofi, capturing hundreds of prisoners.

CHINESE ANSWER TO JAPAN. JAP. BANKS SUSPEND PAYMENT. Received 9.15 am. TOKIO, May 27. The War Office has received the Chinese answer to the Japanese offer regarding Shantung. The answer is considered a refusal. Itlr is expected the status quo will be permitted to continue. Twelve branches of the Seventy‘Fourth Ba.nk at Yokohama and the Yokohama. Savings Bank have suspended payments. The former institu~ tion is heavily interested in the silk and cotton transactions.

CANADA'S BILL FOR WAR. Received 9.15 am, OTTAWA, May 27.. It is understood Canada has formulated a War Damages Bill fo’ca.lling 1870 million dollars-, including cost of war and denfobilisation, 1715 million; separation allowances 85 millions; Halifax explosion, 27 millions; a,rmy'of ‘occupation, 8 millions; illegal Warfare 31,500,000. This Bill will be handed to the forthcoming Conference of the Empire Representaives and ‘lnferAllied Conference at Spa._