CABLE BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 17226, 16 December 1919, Page 9

CABLE BREVITIES

The Italian Government Trill withhold pay and rations from 'D'Annunzio's troops. Chinese school teachers have not been paid for 18 months, and threaten to strike. Students are boycotting Japanese goods. Berlin cafes, etc., threaten to close in protest against punishment of profiteering by imprisonment. Mr J. H. Thomas announced that negotiations for standardisation of railwaymen's wages are near a satisfactory settlement, tho bad old sweating- days having ended - Five members of the Canadian Cabinet resign with Sir R. L. Borden. David Griffith and his party of movio actors have been rescued off the coast of Florida. A student in Cairo has been arrested for trying to assassinate the Egyptian Premier. Heavy concentrations of German soldiers, estimated at 80,000 regulars and 15,000 volunteers in East and West Prussia, are suspected of a project fostered by Von der Goltz and other militarists, to restore the old order in Germany. Mr Wilton, 'TimesV Warsaw correspondent, states that, following the fall of Kolchak's Omsk Government, there is a movement towards a Siberian federation to combat the Bolsheviks' move east and to meet the economic crisis due to the slump of the rouble. America's brief "wet" spell has ended, the Supreme Court holding tho war-time prohibition to be Constitutional, and it will ajjain be enforced till January 1, 1920, when National Prohibition supervenes permanently. The Italian Parliament rejected a proposal to resume relations immediately with the Soviet Government; but urged Cabinet to support the Supreme Council in reopening relations with all the Governments of Russia.