IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS
Germany has agreed to a postponement of the Spa Conference, which will now assemble 011 June 21st.
It is reported that General Hcrrcra, tho slayer of ex-President Carranza, lias surrendered, and is returning to Mexico City. A Tckio message says Baron Hayashi, former Governor of the province of Ivwangtung, South Manchuria, has been appointed Ambassador to Great Britain, succeeding Viscount Chinda. J A Paris messnge says a cyclone in the Department of the Oise, damaged railways, Inrldinsrs, and crops to the value of £T 00,000. Ti:c cyclone ne ir'y obliterated the villages of Fontaine and Bonneleau. The Belgian Foreign Minister, explaining the rupture of negotiations with Holland, stated i'-'it .since 1839 Holland had demanded sovereignty oyer the Wielingen Channel, commanding the approaches to Zcebrugge, •which was the maritime base of Belgium's defence. President Wilson received Sir Auckland Geddes, British Ambassador to Washington, who said it was the unanimous wi-jh and hope of the British peoples, wherever thev might be, that the relation of friendship with tho people of the United States should be strengthened and developed.
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16847, 29 May 1920, Page 9
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