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Star (Christchurch), Issue 16559, 19 October 1921, Page 8

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By Telegraph-Press Associatfop-Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received October 19, 1.30 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, October IS. The Lawn Tennis Union is arranging to enter a team for next Davis Cup contests. LONDON, October 18. Yorkshire newspapers suggest that the refusal of London buyers to agree to BA.W.R. A.*s merino proposal is due to their objections to adding an extra day to the series, and especially a Saturday, having in view the fact that the next series opens on Novom her 3, when large quantities of merinos will be offered on tlie first and second days. Mr Lloyd George, in the House of Commons, stated that he hoped to go to Washington as soon as the Parliamentary and general situation rendered it possible. Tlie Ambassador at Wash ington would act in his absence, or in the absence of anv of the other dele gates. Ge neral Smuts had decided to leave South Africa’s interests in the hands of tlie representatives. Admiral Beatty will be Senior naval expert, Lord Cavan military expert. Air-Mar-shal Higgins air expert, and Mr Hatidey secretary. The All-Ireland Industrial Conference at Dublin passed a resolution that in any treaty with Great Britain full fiscal freedom was fundamental and essential. Some of (he speeches were strongly protectionist. ROME, October 18. Following a. dispute with the parish priest, almost the whole population of the village of Seppiann have abjured the Catholic faith and become Protestants. DELHI. October 18. Persian advices state that a. Cossack force entered Resht. Through communication with Baku is expected to be re-opened immediately. Kutchi Khan, the rebel leader, and his force-s were driven into the-jungle. PARIS, October 198. The strike of the textile workers at Lille and Roubaix has partially collapsed. Some workers accepted the employers* offer of a 10 per cent reduction in wages. CONSTANTINOPLE, October 18. A Constantinople message states that a . reliable foreign testimony states that 420 out of 720 prosperous Greek villages in the Black Sea district, found Samsim and Bafra, were completely destroyed in the last few months. The male in habitants were either massacred or deported. and the women removed t<* the interior. The remaining three hundred villages were partially destroyed and the inhabitants driven out. The principal organiser of the raids is Osman Agba, a Kemalist colonel. CAPE TOWN, Octobei 18. Tbe Union Government bas placed a contract for tbe erection of thirty-one grain elevators with a Canadian firm. Most of the machinery will be. purchased in England.