MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17104, 28 March 1921, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Friday was the hottest day in Sydney -J since December, 1019, the thermometer registering 99.2 degrees.. % The London and Nortli-Western railway •is absorbing the Lancashire aiyj Yorkshire railway. The joint capital is 200 millions. {•'v

An Indian named Sadhu wfts depofted from Suva to Sydney in the stwwr Atua on" Friday, as an undefiirabte to* migrant. Sadhu ia the al\eged lefcdef of the Indian strike in Fiji. A Sydney message says that foUMttan in a boat were overtaken by a southerly in the surf at Cropylla.' The boat c&p- ,• sized and one or tlie occupants W|l drowned.

A neuter message from Peking that famine is causing terrible ravages in JHonan, Shensi and Chi-li. There have been fifty thousand deaths from starvation in Shensi. Plague hn# appeared in Chi-li, and typhus in Hanan,

Mr Lenox Simpson, better ktvown *» Putnam Weale, adviser to the Chinees Government, will sail shortly to confer with the American, British, and French Governments and the League of J* actions regarding the Chinese demand for the abolition of extra-territorial nghta in China.

The United States haß asked tho British Government to demand that Gerinany shall extradite G. C. Bergdoll, a wealth? "slacken" who escaped while serving a sentence for evading the dratt during the war. It u learned thqA the request is based on the fact that JJerg« doll reached Germany on a forged passport obtained in Canada.

Miss Maude Hoyden, assistant preacher at the City Temple, Louden, defying the Bishop of London) conduct* ed a three hours' Good Friday at Saint Botolphs, Bishopgate, There was a crowded congregation- Tno Vicar was present, and several clergy w«r® among the congregation, which consisted chiefly of women.

It is reported from New York th?* tho. baseballers who agreed, to let thoif opponents win the 1919 world series are to be prosecuted. One hundred and forty-four indictments have been laid against eighteen players as gambler?. The State Attorney announces that this time the prosecutions "fill be carried out.

A movement is on foot in Japan to deify tho spirit of the late Henry Bowie, a prominent California#, who was president of the Sun Francisco American-Japanese Society, and garded as one- of the leading friends of the Japanese. A special swine will b© dedicated at Tokio,. This is tho fir.it instance of tho deification of any foreigner by Shintoista.

The Washington correspondent of the "New York Times" states that Mr E. Debs, 'the Socialist candidate for the Presidency, who is now Bervjnga ten years' term for violation of the Espionage Law, was permitted to travel from Atlanta prison to Washington to confer with Mr Dougherty concerning a pardon. Mr Dcb9 came without a guani and returned the same way, pledged his \vord of honour. This is the most unusual proceeding in the n": tory of Federal prisons.

The London correspondent of t.i® "Matin" emphasises the inconsistencies in Mr Lloya George's tempera men-;, contrasting his attacks on the Labour Part* in Great Britain and his trado agreement with Russia, by which ne helps to consolidate _ the Soviet Government, which subsidise! the British Labour movement. Tho correspondent interviewed two of Mr Lloyd Georgos secretaries, who contended that the HJ* consistencies really demonstrated Mr Lloyd George's adaptability and "supple Welsh eenius." One secretary added: "Mr Lloyd GeoTge never reads a book* but he is not the only EnlVnte leader who knows everything without having learned anything."