VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17365, 29 May 1920, Page 6

VARIOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Austrnlinn and K.Z. Cable Association. THE UNITED STATES SENATE. WASHINGTON, May 27. President, in_ vetoing Senator Knox's peace resolution, bitterly condemned the resolution as casting an ineffaceable stain on the honor and gallantry of the United States. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee refused, by 11 votes to 4, to accept tho President's Armenian mandato proposal. Tho same Committee of tho House of Representatives rejected' by 10 votes to 9 a resolution endorsing Irish independence. MR WILSON'S FIGHT. WASHINGTON, May 23. (Received May 29, at 9.50 a.m.) President Wilson intends to make national honor crux of his campaign in tho fight for the League of Nations. He will propose to re-submit to' tho country the Peace Treaty, as drafted, with certain suggestions for interpretative resolutions. KRASSLN'S MISSION. LONDON ; Mav 27. Krassin, tho Bolshevik trade delegate has arrived in London to confer with the Allies' Economic Council. There is a disposition in some quarters to believe that the meeting is likely to pave the way for political negotiations if the Bolsheviks sruaranlee that military enterpriser, outside Russia shall cease. Krassin bears the reputation of holding moderate political views. JAPANESE BANK CRISIS. TOKIO, May 25. Tho banks have met all demands. Public confidence.has been restored, and the run on the banks has ceasod. May 27. (Received May 29, at 9.15 a.m.). Twelve branches of ihe Seventy-fourth Bank of Yokohama and tho Yokohama Savings Bank have suspended payments. The former institution is heavily interested in silk and cotton transactions. POLAND'S ADVENTURE. Eouter's Telegrams. LONDON, May 28. A Warsaw comir.unicpo states that Polish trcops have cut off the Bolshevik forces who crossed the Beresina eotith of Borisoff, capturing hundreds of prisoners. RATLWAYMEN AND MUNITIONS. PARIS, May 28. Italian raihvaymen held up a train at Turin, persisting in the contention that it contained munitions for Poland, despite the assertion of the owners of the consignments that tho train was only carrying merchandise to Rumania. The train" turned to France, and will proceed to Rumania via Bavaria. LONDON. May 28. The National Union of Raihvaymen decided to submit the Irish railWnvmen's claim not to permit the transport of* munitions to a full meeting of the Triple Alliance. COPE'S EXPEDITION " OFF." LONDON, May 23. It is understood that Cope's Antarctic Expedition has been <hnn;teiv abandoned.