JAPANS WAVY.

Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 200, 23 August 1919, Page 7

JAPANS WAVY.

AN EXTENSIVE PROGRAMME. 40,000-TON BATTLE-CRUISERS. TOKYO, August 22. The Navy department's new programme includes two battle-cruisers, three light eniisors. live tirst-dass and five second-class destroyers, several s<il>lnarines, and a number of jjunboats suitable for the China station. The battlecruisers will be 40,000 tons, and will embody the latest British improvements. Tile programme will !>e completed in 1923. when the fleet will include eight modern Dreadnoughts and six battlecruisers.— (A. and X.Z. Cable.) AMERICA AS3D THE TREATY. DEPTTTATTONS TO BE E3AHD. NEW YORK, August 22. The Washington correspondent of the '"New York Times"' states tiiat the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate decided to receive deputations of Egyptians. Jrisu. Greek, and atiier Central European peoples before acting in i regard to the peace treaty.— (A. °and JKJS. Cable.) I BRITAIN IN PERSIA. AN AMERICAN ATTACK. N£\Y YORK, Ingust 22. The British policy in Persia was de- ! nounced by Mr. "McCormick in a speech in the Senate. Britain and France, he : said, were two Imperialistic Powers. Everywhere in Asia were rebellion and sedition, he said, hut under the League of Nations American soldiers must suppress these movements toward freedom. The purpose of the League was to guarantee the world's frontiers in the interests of French and British autocracies.—(A. and N.Z. Cable.) AUSTRALIAN WHEAT POOLS. A SLUMP in SCItIP. SYDNEY, August 22. The wheat question is creating much criticism in both the New Jsouth Wales and Federal Parliaments. In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly the of Agriculture put up a strong defence over matters arising out of the recent commission of inquiry into the (ie.orpe,san contract and the subsequent comments thereon. In the Federal House of Representatives adverse comments on the operations of the wheat |>00l and its alleged wasteful methods led to the production of much official matter to prove that the pool acted in the interests of the fanners and made the best of a position rendered very difiieult by war conditions, also to show that Mr. Pratten's estimated loss of :!0,00fX,000 bushels was largely overestima.t«:d. Mr. Pratten's statement resulted in a heavy slump in wheat scrip, estimated at £1,500,000. —.(A. and N.Z.) ELDER LINER ABLAZE. BEACHED IN SENE GAMBIA. LONDON, August 22. A message from West Africa states that the liner Aslianti caught fire on arrival at Dakar, Senegambia. The liner was beached. The passengers and crew were saved. — ('"Times.") Tlie Aslianti, a steel screw steamer of 3,423 tons, owned by the Elder Line, was built by Swan and Hunter, at Newcastle, in 1597. She. is 330 ft long, with 45ft beam. A BROKEN ENGAGEMENT. (Bcecived 10.:!5 a.m. , ) LONDON, August 22. It is announced that the proposed niarriuge of Lord ChelmsfordV second daughter to Lord Carnegie, recently Lord ChiMinsfurd's aide-de-camp. has been broken oil.— (A. ami N.Z. Cable.) ENO/iY PROPERTY IN JAPAII TOKYO. August 22. The <;ove.rnmrnt is taking inventories of German and Austrian property in Japan, prepara-ton to taking possession as part of the security In Japan's claims She lias already seized "the (»errrmii anri Austrian Embassies, also £1,000.000 worth of property in Yokohama. —(A. and N.Z. Cable.) EFFECT Of LOW EXCHANGE. NEW Y'OP.K, August 22. The decrease in foreign exeliange is nvtrictina \iiie_rican exports. In a siiiL-le day Chicago banks lost CIOO.OOO. British exchange is now 41-2 cento to the sterling. (A- and N.Z. (able.) LYNCHirJG A NEGRO. NEW YORK, August 22. A negro was lynched by a mob at Elliott, North Carolina, on the allegation that he had assaulted a farmer's wife. Tiie mob first shot him and then tied his body to a tree in the local churchyard. The mob defied the sheriffs who endeavoured to rescue the negro.— (A. and N.Z. Cable),