The Archive · 1931

FOREIGN NEWS IN BRIO

Acting.on a proposal made by M. Barthou, French Minister of War, a presidential decree was issued nominating the following members for the counsel of war for 1931 Marshals Joffre, Petain, Lyauty and Franchot Espere The "Manchester Guardian" publishes the report of its woman. cor-_ respondent specially sent to- Poland' to check up the stories of the Polish atrocities in the Ukraine before and during the recent lections. The report constitutes a damning indict mont such as seldom has been published by the press. According to the report Polizh troops raided between five and six hundred Ukrainian villages, whipped and otherwise tortured many hundreds of innocent persons and showed particular ferocity towards the Roman Catholic clergy.

Sources close to President Hoover have declared that he opposes a proposal that war veterans' com-Pensation insurance be paid in cath Four men have been killed and injured up to the present in a tribal fight which has broken out between the Basutos and Pondos at the Randfontein Estates mine, The Federal Government of Australia has decided to restrict alien immigration until the country's, eecromie position has improved.

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