INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 16212, 15 May 1918, Page 7

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE.

WASHINGTON, May 13. The War Trade Board has arranged an international commercial agreement between the United States, Britain, France, Belgium, and Italy,, by which exports will only be granted under license, the purpose being to conserve material, labour, and tonnage, and to eliminate all shipments not essential to the war. The new agreement does not affect shipments of British goods to the colonies.

AUSTRIAN NAVAL

MUTINY. • OUTBREAK AT TWO STATIONS. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Australian and N. 54. Cable Association.) LONDON, May 13. Details of the Austrian naval mutiny show that it broke out almost simultaneously at Pola and Cattaro. Probably the two risings were preconcerted.

Tho workmen at Pola struck, demanding the mitigation of sentences, and various officers and crcws of numerous ships joined in. Tho authorities yielded, granting all tho demands.

The rising at Cattaro took a more serious course. iSix cruisers and a number of destroyers declared for a revolution, but tho German element refused to participate. Collisions occurred, resulting in some bloodshed. Eventually the mutineers seized tho ports, arresting the Admiral and officers. They occupied a wireless station, from which they telegraphed their demands to tho authorities at Vienna. The authorities replied evasively, while They ordered a naral division to Cattaro. Tho mutineers opened negotiations, resulting in their surrendering on the promise that the Government would not punish them. 'J'] lc authorities dismissed several high officers, on tho ground of lack of firmness, and a new Admiral was appointed with a reputation for severity. STARVATION IN AUSTRIA. (United Service.) MILAN, May 13. Two Italian nurses, who have beon released from Vienna, state that the condition of life there is almost insupportable. Deaths from exhaustion are continually occurring in the streets. A physician informed them that 2000 people were buried daily in tho principal cemetery.