LATE NEWS

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2031, 18 August 1920, Page 14

LATE NEWS

ANTWERP, August 17. in the 110 metres hurdles H. E. Wilson (Sew Zealand') won his heat Kent defeated Parker and qualified tor the fir.:>l oi the 10,000 metre:, walkLONDON. August 17. The Council of Action is appealing t: .11 workers to organise for August 21 as a 'Teace with Russia Sunday," including every city, town, and village throughout the csuntry, and to hold mass demonstrations an favour cf an immediate Russian-British peace, and "no more support for French militarism and no more trickery." vMr \V. Brace, president of the South Wales miners, interviewed, deprecated tie proposal to keen the Council of Action permanently sitting. He said chaos and confusion ■would follow such a course. Ho-.v-rver, they'should now concentrate upon the Russian-Polish situation, the cancellation of the Supreme Council and the establishment of machinery to make the League of Nations effeetivt, v.ith a view to securing woi-'d peace. CONSTANTINOPLE, August 16. 'Heavy fighting is in progress in tho Crimea. Bolsheviks from the Polish front are attacking vigorously, supported by massed airplane hembing. General Wrangel is holding his own. General Wrangel's raiders crossed the Don and threatened to isclate the Euban Cossacks. STOCKHOLM, August 16. The Bolshevik organ "Szvestia" publishes an order issued by the Soviet authorities at Kieff, ordering no forbearance towards tto' _ o population of Poland. The population in some of the occupied districts has been almost completely annihilated. Rich farmers have been exterminated, and all agricultural produce has been seized. Anybody found in possession of a single csartridge is executed.