MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17134, 2 May 1921, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

It is reported from. Some that tho Fascisti coup has collapsed and order been restored.

'The King and Queen welcomed the Duke of Connaught on his arrival, at Victoria Station from India.,

• Sir James Stevenson accepted Mr Churchill's.invitation to become his per-* scial adviser, on commercial questions relating to colonial administration. The Masonic Unity of Queensland has been consummated,, a distinguialled gathering tbeing'present at the forma-; won of a united grand lodge representing 14,000 members.

Viscount Kato, ex-Mminter of Foreign Affairs, in d speech in the Japanese jDiet, derided the Ministry for its constant talk of friendship towards other countries, wOxtsn Japan's rights were being trampled on. The body of the jroman found in Lane Cove river, Sydney, on April 17th has been identified as that of Miss Elizabeth Barnett, formerly of Auckland. There is no clue as to tow 6ho came to get into'the water. .

An agent has arrived at Darjeeling to arrange, for transport for the forthcoming scientific expedition to scale Mount Everest. . Colonel; Bury (leader) and Maior jitorsead arrive-on Monday, and the rest of. the party later. They expect to start the ascent" on May 16tn.

The Guyta "ghost" has taken a new leafie of life. The stone-throwing was resumed while the girl who had previously admitted that fine was responsible for the, trouble was inside t«he house. Kingstown, in the Uralla districty hae also put in a ghostly claim for « residence there, which has been mysteriously Btoned. .

The St. Kilda branch of the Returned Soldiers tjtnfl""Sailors' Imperial Leagufc lias put forward a suggestion that the body of an unknown warrior should be transferred from'Gallipoli or France and buried in Melbourne; on Anzac Day, 1922.- The Premier states that he is not favourable, to the idea, as it will only discount or cheapen a. very potable incident.if it is repeated.

Estimates based on •reports by Federal and. State labour, and industrial ofiicials indicate that over three , million persons are unemployed throughout ihe United States. Coipprehchsive reports from nineteen States show that there ar6 two million unemployed, of which New "Sork has 450,000. and, Illinois ' Industrial experts " predict a big wage reduction <as a logical result drtho present situation. ' ,

New York raided the headquarters of .the United Communist Party of the United States, and discovered a vast amount of literature and correspondence containing evidence of attempts to recruit the Communist Party from members bf various American colleges and enlist negroes to overthrow the-United States Government by, force./• Communications were also sent to Communists throughout the United asking them to endeavour 'o become" policemen or soldiers, in order to be better able to participate in the overthrow of the Government. -Several officials were captured in possessiou of the Soviet authorisation to 'organise tlw party in America.

The Tokio correspondent of thei "Chicago Tribune" interviewed Mr Juiclxi ooeda, presidentof the Japanese League of Nations Society, who would bo the greatest mistake , for Japan and the United States to be separated by misunderstandings {ind suspicions, and thus deprived of the opportunity- of-fulfilling the high duty which would fall on tlielr shoulders. ".There-may be" mischief-makers,"' _ he "who wish'to see these nations como to a clash, but we must guard against them not only for our mutual benefit, .but for the noble-weighty mission which Providence has placed <ipon the only two progressive nations bordering tho' Pacific."