MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16515, 10 June 1919, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

» Mongolia has proclaimed its independence. A Royal Commission has been appointed in Melbourne to enquire into the wharf labourers' strike. Lord Heneage's seat, Hainton Hall, Lincolnshire, -was burned dow». The heirlooms were saved. A London message says that permission has been granted to a syndicate to bore for oil near Newark. The clothing factory of the Barnet Goldstein Company and Deroy Manufacturing Company in were destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at many thousands.

The Convention of the Irish League in Great Britain carried a resolution in favour of retaining independence, in wite of a strong movement in favour of joining the British Labour Party. The general strike at Berlin ended on Saturdav afternoon. The factories reopen after the Whitsuntide holidays and newspapers will resume publication immediately. Refugees who have reached Vienna from Western Hungary, describe as a Hath of blood the events following on the defeat of four thousand anti-Bol-shevist peasants at Kolderhof, near Odenburg. The Freedom of the City of_ London haß been conferred on the Prince _ of Wales. In his response the Prince said that he would never regret his service ovet"seas. "In those four years I mixed with men and I found my manhood." The Board of Trade has referred to the King's Bench Division its refusal to issue a license to trade in nonferrous metals to Henry Gardner, formerly chairman of Mertons. Limited, on the ground of his influence and association with enemy corporations. The hearing is unfinished. A sensational unwritten law case has occurred at Bodmin, Cornwall. Nicholls, a miner, was acquitted of the manslaughter of Captain Schiff, who figured in the "Billie" Carleton case. Schiff was a notorious profligate. He was spending a holiday in Bodmin, and tried to lure Nicholls's 17-year-! old daughter to London, by means of immoral letters. Nicholls interviewed Schiff. A fight resulted, and Schiff died. Negotiations between the German and Russian Bolshevists are in full swing. They are being conducted through a well-known Socialist named Parvus, a resident of Switzerland, who is intimately connected with Scheidemann, Rantzau, and Trotzky. A plan to organise the Bolshevists in most European countries, including Turkey and the Balkans, is being elaborated, with a view to possible eventualities arising from Germany not signing the Treaty. Parvus is seeking the com- i r>!ete abandonment of terrorism as the basis of the Russo-German agreement.