HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16693, 29 November 1919, Page 9

HOME AND FOREIGN.

UNEMPLOYED EX-OFFICERS. (By Cabl»—Pk« Acaociatlon—Copyrishi.) (Au»tra,lian and N.Z.' Cable Association.) LONDON November 24. Field-Marshal Earl Haig addressed a Mansion House meeting of employers on \ behalf of London's 12,000 unemployed ex-officers. The King sent a message expressing tho hope that a successful effort -would be made to secure them employment. SOUTH AFRICAN FOODSTUFFS. (Received November 28th, 7.20 p.m.) CAPETOWN, November 27. I As the result of dissatisfaction at the I exportation of foodstuffs, of which there is a shortage locally, a special meeting of the executive of tho Federation of Trades Unions decided to ask all affiliated unions to refuse to handle all foodstuffs for exportation from South African ports. LUSITANIA VICTIMS. LONDON, November 24. Tho bodies of all tho Americans killed through the sinking of the Lusitania havo been exhumed at Queenstown, and aro being shipped for reburial in the "United States. [The intention is evidently to re-inter the bodies the National Cemetery at Arlington, Washington, D.C. A previous message said that the United States was negotiating for tho return to America of the bodies of all soldiers buried in France.] A HUGE METEOR. NEW YORK. November 27. A telegram from Michigan states that an enormous meteor fell into Lake Michigan. Columns of water and flames 100 ft high shot up into the air. PEACE WITH BULGARIA. PARIS, November 27. Bnlgaria has signed the Peace Treaty; UNITED STATES AND- MEXICO. LONDON, November 26. Mexico has sent a Note to tho United Stntes, stating that it is impossible to accede to tho United States' request to release Mr Jenkins. fA previous message stated that in a Note to the United States in reference to Jenkins, the Consular who was ransomed from bandits, tho Government says there is no legal foundation or principle of international law in the demand of the United States for the release of Jenkins.]