IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16731, 14 January 1920, Page 7

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

A Paris message savs it is announced that the Carpenticr-Dempsey boxing match will t a Ice place in New Jersey oil September Gth. The British Jews propose to raise £1.00'),000 to found a Jewish centre oi" learning as a war memorial to the Jews who fought for the P'mpire. A message from Rome reports that what are probably tho richest and most extensive phosphate mines in the world have been located near Derna, in naica. A Paris message dated January lltli says:—A total of 210 Senators aro being cle~ted to-day. The issue is mainly between M. Clcmonecau's National Bloc and Socialists. Viscount .lellicoe and Sir Robert Borden, Canndian Prime Minister, were accorded a brilliant reception on their j arrival nt Havana (Cuba). Salutes were fired from many foreign warships. A messago from New York says the Smithsonian Institute lias announced that Professor Clark has invented a multiple-charge rockct capable of reaching heights in excess of 200 miles. Captain Block (?). Attache at tho British Embassy at "Washington, whilo in_ a cab, was robbed of a valise, containing £1000, and valuablo Embassy documents. Caplain Block is in Havana with Visrount Jellicoe. A Washington message says Mr Hoover, before the House Committee, stated that owinq: to enormously improved conditions in Europe the task of supplying food from tho United States would bo easy in 1020. United States credits for forty millions sterling would bo sufficient. A Washington message says tho Senate has passed a Bill enforcing five years' imprisonment, and a fine of 50.000 dollars, for writing, uttering, mailing, or distributing material advocating tho overthrow of tho Government by or through assassination or sabotage. A message from Washington says that evidence given l»efore a Senate snb-committee shows that 30.000 men who escaped war sorvico when called up under tho American draft svstem, aro stirring up a Soviet revolution in Mexico. Tho Communist party in Mexico has been exceptionally active lately. A messago from Ijondon says that Fratcl, a sergeant-major in the" Indian Medical Corps, who was tried by courtmartial on charges of cruelty to British prisoners captured at Knt-el-AmarA in. l'Jlo, was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment from tho date of his trial in August, was reduced to the ranks and dismissed from the service. Tho' King remitted nine-tenths of the sent- i enoo, and Fratcl was released after j seven days' actual imprisonment.