UNITED STATES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1919, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

A RABID SENATOR. • BRITISH POLICY IN PERSIA - , DENOUNCED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 22, 11-18 p.m. Washington, Aug. 21. < Senator McCormick, in a speech in the Sfnate, denounced British policy in Persia. Britain and France, he said, were two Imperialistic powers. Everywhere in Asia thero was rebellion and sedition, but under the League of Nations America's soldiers must suppress those movements towards freedom. The puvpi se of the League was to guarantee the world's frontiers in the interests of French and British autocracies.—Aus.N Z. Cable Assn.

DEPUTATIONS TO BE RECEIVED. BEFORE PEACE TREATY SIGNED. Received Aug. 22, 3.45 p.m. Washington, Aug. 21. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided to receive deputations ol Egyptians, Irish, Greeks, and other Central European peoples before acting on the Peace Caible Assn. A NEGRO LYNCHED. Received Aug. 22, 11.15 p.m. New York, Aug. 21. A crowd at Louisburg, north Carolina, lynched a negro named Elliott, who is alleged to have assaulted a farmer's wife. The mob first shot the negro, and then tied the body to a tree in the local churchyard, defying the sheriffs.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. INVASION OF MEXICO. Washington, Aug. 21. The Mexican Ambassador has been ordered to protest against American troops being in Mexico and to demand their withdrawal.