FOREIGN NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 November 1920, Page 8

FOREIGN NEWS.

FIGHTING IN LITHUANIA. . By Telejraph.—Press Assn —Copyricht. ; Geneva, Nov. 25. Colonel cnardigney, head of the League's Commission which is investigating the Vilna affair, telegraphs that Zeliguowski's anil the Lithuanian troops are still fighting on various parts of the front. —Aius.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CAPITAL TO WORK RUSSIA. London, Nov. 25. A Moscow wireless message reports that the Supreme Economic Soviet has issued a decree permitting foreign capitalists to work Russia's natfiral riches with the right to export a portion of the prodm/ The Government promises capitalists that investments in their undertakings shall not be nationalised, confiscated or requisitioned. They fflay engage with existing labor laws. THE EX-CROWN PRINCE. Berlin, Nov. 25. Socialist newspapers give prominence to a letter from the ex-Crown Prince saying lie wishes (o leave the tedious Dutch country with its cows and flatfooted inhabitants. Ho hopes that his cousin Kupprecht will soon ascend the Bavarian throne and he will thus be able to join him in Bavaria— Aug.-N.Z, Cable Assn. THE SOVIET AND POLAND. Warsaw, Nov. 25, The Soviet has suspended peace negotiations with Poland oil the ground that the Poles have no? withdrawn troops from the Pripct demarcation line. The Soviet representatives at Kovno have informed Lithuania that the P.olsheviks will be obliged to re-occupy Vilna. POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA. Capetown. Nov. 25. General Smuts met the central executive of the 'Unionist Party at Johannesburg and it was unanimously decided to unite with the South African Party and support the Premier's appeal and to appoint a committee t« discuss arrangements with a committee of the South African Pai'v. The elections will he Ipld oil January 23.