VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17325, 13 April 1920, Page 4

VARIOUS CABLES

TURKISH AFFAIRS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Gable Association. ATHENS, April 11.' French troops have relieved Aint-ab, where there were 15,000 Armenians. The siege by Turkish Nationalist bands lasted two months. The latter lost 1,000 killed, and the vest were dispersed. Reuter’s Telegrams. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 11. The Bolsheviks have, captured Tuapse, a small port on the eastern shores of the Block Sea, BOLSHEVISM AND FORCED LABOR, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, LONDON, April 11. The Bolshevik Congress at Moscow, in approving of compulsory labor, recommended the maintenance of a proper ratio between those mobilised for this purpose and the places of concentration in relation to the size of tho labor problem and the amount of essential machinery. Party organisations must assist the trade unions in registering qualified workmen. The latter must revert to the work in which they are specialists, and personal zeal will be regarded as t-Jre greatest factor in augmenting the output. Competition m labor which is _ beneficial under a regime of nationalised industries, must be power-fully-encouraged by a system of premiums and the fixing of food prices for the benefit of the diligent and conscientious rather than for the careless worker. CIVIL WAR POSSIBLE, LONDON, April 12. (Received April 13, at noon.) The Sheikh U1 Islam has issued, a proclamation urging the Faithful to rally to the Sultan’s standard, and denouncing the Nationalists as Turkey’s worst enemies. This will probably cause an outbreak of civil war. ■ JAPAN AND SIBERIA. ! VLADIVOSTOK, April 11. Vladivostock is now quiet. All the Russians have been disarmed. Fighting is proceeding at Kharbarovsk. The Japanese have occupied all the districts between Vladivostock and Nicholaievsk, HONOLULU, April 11. According to a despatch from Tokio the Japanese have captured the Ussuri Railroad, between Vladivostock and Kharbarovsk. MEXICAN SPLIT. NEW YORK, April 11. Telegrams from Nogales, in New Mexico, report that the State of Sonora has seceded from the Mexican Federal Government and created an independent republic, determined to oppose Carranza. The action arose out of the Federal Government’s alleged encroachment upon State rights guaranteed under the Constitution. BRITISH MINERS’ BALLOT. LONDON, April 11. _ The strike ballot returns for the English district to date show majorities against a miners’ strike. Scotland, Lancashire, and Cheshire are expected to favor a strike, for which South Wales cast, 49.000 votes of a majority. Complete returns are unlikely to result in the, requisite two-thirds majority for a strike-. U.S. RAILWAY STRIKE. NEW YORK, April 11. Reports from St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, Columbus', Cleveland, Detroit. San Francisco, and San Diego indicate that the strike is crippling the railway services throughout the'whole countrv. Passenger trains from New York are leaving hours late. The tramway systems -in tho cities near New York are being I affected, and freight movements are uncerj tain in many parts of tho country. The I food supply of many cities is threatened I . Tlie actual strikers number only about 50.000 (? 5,C00), but 75,000 railroad'workers are idle. The strikers are mostly switch men and firemen. GUATEMALAN REVOLUTION. WASHINGTON, April 12. _ The revolutionists have captured the city of Guatemala, capital of the Central American Republic of that name.