PEACE PROBLEMS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3468, 31 August 1920, Page 21

PEACE PROBLEMS.

(By Cable.) \ CZECHO-SLOVAKIA. LONDON,- August 24. Dr Benes, the Czecho-Slovakian Foreign Minister, has reached London from Belgrade, where he concluded a defensive alliance with Serbia. He now hopes to convert this into a Triple Alliance through securing the adhesion of Rumania. The latter also desires to see Greece and Poland Avithin the alliance. SERBIA AND ALBANIA. ROME, August 2ft Sporadic warfare has been in progress for some time between the Albanians and the Serbians, wherein the latter is reported to have been severely defeated and to have lost 2000 men and a number of . guns. The Serbian and Albanian Govern- j ments blame each other. The Albanian delegation in Rome protested to the Italian i Government against the' Serbian invasion of Albania on futile pretext, and asked Italy to put an end to the advance, of j •Tugo-Slav troops, and thereby save new i Balkan troubles. , ! The Serbian Government has sent a strongly-worded Note to Albania with " regard to the recent attacks on the Ser- | bian frontier troops by Albanian bands. The latter have their headquarters at \ Rushtukula, are completely but of hand, and are preparing for a big attack on the Serbs. • FRANCO-POLISH CONSULATES - STONED. BERLIN, August 27. Following a demonstration by the bourgeois parties at Breslau against the Polish « rising in Slilesia, German Nationalists , stoned, the French and Polish Consulates. !. They demolished furniture and burired the ] French flag in the' street. The mob. then ■' stormed the hotels where the Entente officers were staying," and threw out all their documents. The Social' Democrats' refused to participate in the demonstration on the ground that they would not ■join in any action with the Jingoist Nationalists. An official representative of the German Foreign Office subsequently called on the French Ambassador and the Polish Charge d'Affaires and expressed the regret of the German Government over the affair.