VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17155, 23 September 1919, Page 8

VARIOUS CABLES

PROFITEER HUNTING. j Press Association—By Tdcgraph—Copyright. 'The Times.' LONDON. September 21. (Received September 23, at 8.40 a.m.) Profiteer hunting has begun in earnest in Britain. Ten thousand workers made a- demonstration in Hyde Park and sent the Government a message to "get rid" of the profiteers or get out. The profiteer tribunals have commenced operations. The residents in many districts have arranged open-air markets, where goods are selling at half the prices charged in the shops. TAR AND FEATHERS JUSTIFIED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. •LONDON, September 21. (Received September 23, at 8.40 a.m.) At the court martial held in connection with the tarring arid feathering of a young naval officer at Cambridge early i:i Juno the- husband of the woman involved in the case, Lieutenant Wright, was found guilty, but the Court merely administered a simple reprimand, with no loss of lank or seniority. FRENCH TRAITORS. PARIS, September 21. (Received September 23, at 8.40 a.m.) The ' Petit. Parisien ' asserts that Lenoir accuses Caillaux of being at the bottom of various schemes to purchase French newspapers for pro-German propaganda. SHIPPING DISASTERS. ' The Times.' LONDON. September 21. The Norwegian steamer Hortenselea turned turtle in a galo of? the Tyne. One woman and eight men were lost. Twelve survivors were rescued sitting ■wa l 'at-high in water-logged boats and clinging to wreckage. NEW YORK, September 22. (Received September 23, at 9.15 a.m.) Eleven additional survivors from the British steamer Bayronto have landed at Tampa, Florida, thus accounting for all the ship's company. [The Bayronto was lost in the Gulf of Mexico in a hurricane. The erew_ subsisted'in open boats on a few biscuits, a little water, and raw fish.] RIO GRANDE FLOOD. NEW YORK, September 21. A despatch from Austin states that the Rio Grande (the boundary between Texas and Mexico) has overflown its banks on the lower course for 40 miles inland, inundating scores of towns and destroying millions of dollars' worth of property. No loss of life occurred, owing to the fact that the Hood was expected. rOST OFFICE DISCONTENT. LONDON, September 20. Three Postal Workers' Trade Unions have amalgamated, and resolved, despite many protests, that the first plank in their society's policy shall be a strike. A strike fund has been instituted. FRENCH LABOR'S AIMS. PARIS, September 22. (Received September 23, at 10.25 a.m.) The French Labor Conference, by 1.593 votes to 588, denounced the extremists who" favor direct action, but initiated a new party aiming at the- widespread nationalisation of industry.