VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17279, 18 February 1920, Page 4

VARIOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ATLANTIC SHIPPING MISHAPS. NEW YORK, February 14. The collier Malden is ashore on the Long Island coast. The United States Shipping Board steamer William Henry caught fire off the Jersey coast, and was taken in tow bv the steamer Panama. The flames hav’e been extinguished. The steamer Avondale is disabled 500 miles out at sea, but has been taken in tow by the Eclipse. CRIME IN LONDON. LONDON, February 17. A daring theft occurred at Paddington railway station. A traveller put down a handbag containing jewels valued at £7,000 in order to pay for his ticket, hut when he looked down he found that an empty hag had been substituted. There is no clue. BRITISH LOAN TO FRANCE. PARIS, February 16. (Received February 18, at 11.50 a.m.) The French Prime Minister (M. Mfllerand), in the course of an interview, stated that England will probably lend Franco 5,000 million francs about the end of March. EXPORT OF COAL. LONDON, February 16. The French and British Governments have readied an agreement regarding the conditions regulating the export of coal from both countries during the present year. CABINET CHANGES AND VICE-REGAL REGAL FORECASTS. LONDON, February 16. Mr J. E-. Sutherland’s acceptance of a Junior Lordship of the Treasury will necessitate a re-election for Argyleshire. It is probable that (Mr Sutherland will succeed Captain Guest as Chief Whip. The name of the latter is mentioned as likely to bo Governor-General either of Australia or of New Zealand. The newspapers hint that Mr E. Shortt may resign the Home Secretaryship and fill one of the vacant Governor-General-ships. INDIAN OCEAN DERELICT. PARIS, February 15. The authorities have abandoned all hope o_{ further survivors from the steamer Ville D’Alger, bound from Reunion (an island in the Indian Ocean) to Havre. The vessel was abandoned on fire early in February. It is now announced that there were 119 deaths and 22 survivors. In response to a wireless call the Ville du Havre sailed out from Reunion, and discovered the Ville D’Alger abandoned and burnt down to the water’s edge. Since then ships in the Indian Ocean have made wide search for the missing lifeboats. One boat reached Reunion with 17 men and women and four children in the last stages of exhaustion, owing to exposure and want of food. The Ville D’Alger is still adrift, and is a serious danger to vessels in the Indian Ocean. *THE OPHIR. LONDON, February 16. The Admiralty have decided to sell the former Orient liner Ophir, which took the present King on his colonial tour in 1901. The Prince of Wales, before his departure, will entertain (Mr A. Fisher, Sir T. Mackenzie, and the Agents-General at luncheon. SINN FEIN’S POLICE’VENDETTA. LONDON, February 16. A determined early morning raid was made on the police barracks at Aghern, County Cork. For hours there was a fusillade- of revolver and rifle shots. The garrison, numbering seven policemen, used bombs to disperse the raiders, one of whom was wounded. The police found quantities of explosives in the vicinity. These barracks were similarly attacked*a fortnight ago. WAS IT A BLUNDER? LONDON, February 16. Corporal King, of the Australian military police, who was arrested in a house at Pimlico after shooting one of a raiding party of police, appeared at Westminster Court, and was remanded on lif'ht bail of £SO. ° A detective gave evidence that the prisoner said the landlady aroused him, declaring that burglars were entering a window, upon which King put a cartridge in his revolver. THE CAILLAUX TRIAD ‘The Times.’ . PARIS, February 16. The Caillanx trial commences to-mor-row. He will be charged that he sought to weaken the security of the State abroad by intrigues and machinations and giving intelligence to the enemy. The dossier contains 7,000 documents. The witnesses appearing come from Italy, South America, the United States, Switzerland, Belgium, and Spain, and they include cardinals, nobles, journalists, financial agents, and spies. The documents reveal epistolary relations with Eolo Jfid Madame 8010. The prosecution also seek to show his connection with Lenoir and the Bonnet Rouge gang. The chief document is a paper discovered in Caillaux’s safe at Florence, wherein, under the heading “ Rubicon,” he jotted down a scheme for political changes in France during the war amounting to a coup d'etat. TT ,Q TV*ir"io tdw. ...X t - . .

The U.S. State Department has been advised that on February 3 General Denikin declared war on "the Republic of Georgia, in Transcaucasia.

Badak tin shares were responsible for another sensation on the Melbourne Stock Exchange yesterday. The day before they dropped to £6OO, and yesterday, owing to the receipt of favorable reports of boring operations, rose to £2,000.