LATE CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17192, 6 November 1919, Page 6

LATE CABLES

EFFORTS

GREAT BOLSHEVIK

ON THREE FRONTS.

Press Associstfoa—By Telegraph—Cooyrighl. Australian and N.Z. Cablfl Association.

LONDON, November 4. (Received Nwember 6, at 1.6 p.m.)

'HelsingfoTS reports that Yudenitch has been forced to avacuate Luga and Gatchina, and declares the Yudenitch's armv is eurrounded; but reports from Yudenitch deny this. Denikin reports fierce fighting around Orel (south 0* Moscow).

A Moscow wireless message claims tho occupation by the Bolsheviks, of NovoRoesiisk (Black Sea port, in Kuban territory, south-east of tho entrance to tho S'ea of Azov).

U.S. SENATE'S PROGRESS.

WASHINGTON, November 5. (Received November 6, at 1.5 p.m.) Tho Senate rejected Senator La Toilette's amendment deleting £he Labor Agreement from the Treaty by 47 votes to 54.

GERMAN INDEMNITIES,

• PLAUSIBLE EVASION PRETEXT.

BERLIN, November 4.

(Received November 6, at 1.45 p.m.) The ' Frankfurter Zeitung' declares that France's fiijjuioial situation and her credits abroad must bo decisively influenced by Germany's inability to" meet her financial obligations. War'eiiterpvisa lias been a failure for all the European Powers, and the whole of Europe must combine, to bring that failure to an end. The only means to do this is a true League of Nations built on an economic basis.

PARTITIO'N OF SYRIA.

FRANCE AND THE'ARABS.

I PARIS, November 4. I (Received November 6, at 1.45 p.m.) ! The Emir Feieul, interviewed, declared that it was impossible for the Arabs to consent to the dismemberment of Syria. He asked M. Clemenceau not to divide the country, but lis has not yet received a reply. [The Emir F'eisul, third son of the King of the Hedjaz, and Arab representative at the Peace Conference, was recently invited to visit- Paiis by M. Clemenceau ia reference to conflicting French and Arab claims in Syria. It has been a French complaint that the British were making u, stalking-horse of the Hedjaz Arabs to frustrate French ambition in Syria.] THE COMMONWEALTH LINE. LONDON. November 4. ' The Times's' Trade Supplement states that the Australian Government's action in building up a State merchant fleet was undoubtedly partly due to the feeling that under present conditions it is undesirable, if not dangerous, for an island nation to be completely dependent on uncontrolled shipping accommodation. FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. PARIS, November 4. A belated message announces the arrival of Poulet at Constantinople. RIFLE SHOOTING. LONDON. November 4. (Received November 6, at 1.5 p.m.) The National Rifle Association have iisvited the Admiralty, the War Office, and the Air Ministry to co-operate in the selection of a United Kingjom team' to visit Australia in the autumn of 1920.