A DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE.
FRANCE AND BELGIUM. : i (Received 11-30 a.ro > LONDON, August 13. French and Belgian military chiefs have signed an agreement settling the general linea of a defensive alliance between the two countries. Political and economic questions have yet to be coneidered.—(Reuter.) AMUNDSEN'SJCREW*ON STRIKE I.BFT WITH THREE SAILORS. STOCKHOLM, August 13. Captain Eaold Amundsen telegraphed that he is short of provisions, and that six of the crew of the Maude have struck work and disembarked, leaving only three eeamen. The abandonment of the expedition is anticipated in Stockholm. ("Times.") DR. MANNIX^S__TREATMENT. LONDON, August 13. The Koman Catholic Archbishops of Wellington, Perth, Adelaide, and Hobart, and the Bishops of Armidale, Rockhampton, Cooktown, Ballarat, Sandhurst, and Wilcannia Forbes nave issued a. joint statement describing Dr. Mannix s treatment as an insult and also an indignity to the signatories, his brothers, and the whole Roman Catholic body in Britain and Australia. They aid that Dr. ManniX is regarded in Australia as a lead" of democratic thought. They deny that JJT Mannix has received any manner of rebuke from the. Holy See.-A. and N.Z.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 194, 14 August 1920, Page 7
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