VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17429, 12 August 1920, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. Australian end N.Z. Cable Association. TURKS SIGN TREATY. LONDON, Auguet 10. The Turkish Treaty .was signed at Seres (? Paris) this afternoon. Mr Fisher signed on behalf of Australia, and a member of the British delegation signed for New Zealand, owing to Sir James Allen's absence. The only part of tho treaty directly interesting Australia and New Zealand is the part providing for the cession of the territory required for cemeteries on Gallipoli, which Sir James Allen described as eminently satisfactory. UKRAINE WHEAT EXPORT. ROME, August 10. Advices from Odessa state that two steamers will sail shortly for Italy, loaded with Russian wheat. JAPAN AND AMERICA. TOKIO, August 10. The newspaper * Kokumin Shimbun,’ which is considered to be the organ of the militarist groups, has printed articles asserting that America is fostering disloyalty among the people of Japan, and that American missionaries in Korea are using the cloak of Christianity to instil anti-Japanese sentiments. America is using Japanese educators, thinkers, and business men as tools to spread dangerous thoughts, to destroy military discipline, to influence Japanese youths to avoid conscription, and to foment labor troubles. America is puffed up since the war, and considers herself the sole arbiter of the world. WASHINGTON. August 11. The State Department reports that the Japanese are acquiring large tracts of land in Mexico, close by the Californian boundary, presumably as a provision against the contingency that they may be barred from holding land in California. JAPANESE FINANCIAL SLUMP. SYDNEY, August 13. A Sydney solicitor who has returned from Japan, referring to the recent commercial crisis there, states that it resulted in the collapse of most of the companies formed during the boom. The losses were enormous, and in three months there were 1,000 suicides among Japanese merchants. CHINESE POLITICS. PEKING, August 10. General Chin Qun Pong has Jfcen reappointed Acting Premia The personnel of the remainder of the Chinese Cabinet has not yet been announced. PERSIA AND THE BOLSEEVIK& SIMLA, August 1L Teheran advises that fighting has taken place between Cutchek Khan and his late Bolshevik allies. The latter looted' and largely burnt down a rebel 'stronghold at Eeeht (on the Caspian). They have proclaimed a general mobilisation and are unsuccessfully trying to conscript Persians between the ages of 18 and 45. The Shah of Persia presented Varosselsky, the Russian in command of a Cossack division, with a diamond-belted sword in recognition of his military sor-