NEWS IN BRIEF

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 36, 19 November 1920, Page 9

NEWS IN BRIEF

big industrial slump is reported from v jrica, -whare already there is an army .. nemployed. W. ' he Greek elections resulted in the trih for 'the Opposition supporting exf- Constaritiiie's return. iposing scenes were witnessed in conon with th© burial of an unknown er in Weston inster Abbey. A.nnunzio's Bersaglieri have occupied [y all the villages assigned to Jugo- : ia, It is evident D'Annunzio deds the whole of Dalmatia for Italy. aarlywall Wrangle's regimental comiers have been killed. It is officiadmitted that his troops are exrangel's army has decided to make supreme sacrifice to enable the woand Ihildren to escape the Red terr ench pnilitary experts are astounded ie Wrangel debacle. They thou-ght irmy was sound and that Perekop's /.ices were capable of repulsing inde- ■ i onslaughts. million people have thus far passed Uenotaph, and half a million people visited the Abbey. There have been i of queues throughout Sunday, the rity carrying bunches of flowers. •ghty thousand refugees from Crimea asking for t-ransportation abroad, but -■sport is limited, and probably it will mpossible to embark more than 20,It is hoped France will come to ■ assistance an offer an asylum in rie new French naval estimates have jased 33 per cent. over last year. The programme ineludes six cruisers, ve destroyers, submarir.es of various s, and air machines. he South Canterbury Aero Company e started loca.1 passenger flights. The npany. hat reeeived two more of the ichines lent by the Government, and pect t$> get four machines going shorily reconnaissance for locating landing. ices betweerj Timaru and Invercargill, It is understood bot-h Britain and itnce oppose Germany's adinission to League of Nations, but the situation nittedly will be awkward if the smaller ions and rieutrals insist thereon. It ,H|cted the countries of South Aroha will settle the question. .MgKJapaiiese aide-camp to the Amerii Minister of the Navy said that every port that Japan was fortifying or planng to fortify or establish bases in any e of the mandated islands .was comitely false. A. Rome message stated that all Cathodeputies support Signor Mali's motion sympathy with Ireland in lier struggle : self-determination and national emanation, : and wishing her a future >wded with freedom, prospertiy and .ce. t is reported that British torpedoers i patrolling the Black Sea with the obt of preventing the Bolsheviks comlicating with the Turkish coast. "he recent bad weather has not been ■fined to Southland, a,s recently a fierce -wester at Auckland wrecked a dwel l in course oi erection at Onehunga. "ut half the roof and part . of the "3 of the building were blbwn away. ^chards suffered a good deal of damage. ,^r Paul Hymans, President of the a£ue Nations, stated that the meet5 of the Assembly was proof of men's 'arnings for an equitable lasting, peace- ' orgariisation in international relations.- « -Covenaiit was not perfect and could 1Se 130 delusive hopes that by some gic wand it Wa,s going to transform world or change man's character. The IgBsought step by step to achieve ieign of international morality and hu- ® right, t is stated in Paris that owing to the : c ties 0f reconstruction, a great ^ r in the devastated regions of ance must spend a second and third ™r in huta in which British or Am'Workmen would not consent to live Week. Jarious organisations of the Public Serave applied for further considera- , °;t their claims. This is directly °f the Arbitration Conrt's an-

nouncement of a- nine shillings weekly addition to wages. Since January 1st, 160 policemen and soldiers have been killed in Ireland, and 308 wounded. Advice from New York reports one of the largest , train robberies in the history of the United States, the bandits escaping with gold, currency and jewels, valned at between one million and two million dollars. Mr Veitch, M.P., has reeeived a cable from Suva stating that about 140 Indians have arrived there, contemplating departure for Auckland at the first opportunity. Mr Yeitch teleigraphed the Minister for Immigration strongly recommending immediate action to prevent Indians commg to New Zealand. At a meeting of the Farmers' Union in Balclutha it was decided to invite representative business men and local bodies to discuss a prosopal for the establishment of woollen mills in Balclutha. Archhishop Mannix described himself as -'in cold storage" in England, and regretted that Armistice Day had not fulfilled its promise, for there was war in Ireland. He did not hate England or 'the British Empire, but he would protest when that Empire failed to rule with the fre© consent of its people. Sir Thomas Mackenzie does not hesitate the blame the Imperial authorities for the slump that has occurred in wool. They had allowed the wool to accumulate and had discouraged consumption by cbarging prices enormously in excess of prices paid to Australian producers. The draft of the proposed Japanese-Am-erican Treaty has been completed and is now "ready for submission to the respectj ve Government^. It is expected that an announcement will be made in the House of Lords that the British troops will be withdrawn from Persia , and that there will be a drastic cutting down of the Mesopot'amian forces. The Australian Commercial Commissioner in the East advises that contrary to eavh'er expectations, -the Japanese rice crop is phenomenal, and is expected to yieid 31b, €-00,000 bushels. The Korean harvest is 75,000,000 bushels. Baron Cato •interviewed at Tokio said : "I believe the Califdrnian .law violates the Japanese- American Treaty. I do not know how to characterisp our positiou in California,, except that it is curious irony. My n: ain hope is that the majority of the American people may see California's mistake, and co-operate with Japan for the adjustment of the dif'ficulty. " — Aus.-N.Z. Gable Assn.