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Evening Star, Issue 17482, 13 October 1920, Page 4

EX-KING CONSTANTINE.

.„ LONDON, October 11. The condition of ex-King Constantine is much worse.—' Times.'

ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION.

LONDON, October 12. The King has sent a message wishing good luck to Lieutenant Cope.—A. and N.Z. Cable. * .

JUTLAND BATTLE CONTROVERSY

m .« ~ , BONBON, October 12. -Lhe 'Daily Mail' understands that the delay m the publication of the report on the Battle of Jutland is due to vital differences between Lord Beatty and Lord Jelhcoe regarding the positions and movements of the two fleets. Both refuse to give way.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

LIGHT ON A GRIEVANCE.

LONDON, October 12. -the ex-soldier who was charged witha damaging the picture 'The Light of tho! World, said he did it to draw attention to his grievance over a pension since he nad been invalided out of the Armv —A and N.Z. Cable **' LOVE LAUGHS AT YEARS. t* *t, , PARI S, October 12. i iwo of Frances grand old men are marrying Anatole France, the author who is 76, is marrying Emma La Prevotte; and M. Camille Flammarion, the scientist who is 78, is marrying Gabrielle loenaudot, wno for many years collaborated in his astronomical investigations A and Js.Z. Cable. SCOTLAND AND PROHIBITION. -n. v i.■,...■ October 11. ine Prohibition campaign in Glasgow has taken an interesting turn through a solictor questioning the validity of the procedure, on the ground that the requisitions demanding a poll were lodged before September 1, and were thus void, as the date of lodgment was fixed for September 00. Further, that all requisitions for the o7 wards were not applied for by the electors m the area. The solicitor intends to take legal action. The authorities deortP he are in proper . Th© 'Glasgow Herald' ridicules the objection raised, which, it states, is purelv technical. Similar objections have been raised m other areas.—A. and N.Z. Cable. TERROR IN THE COTTON FIELDS. vv* •, NEW YORK > October 12. ™£ 1S J l * a ™ s P readin S terror in the cotton States. They are mostly farmers, who are bitterly disappointed at the present price of the cotton crops, and are determined that no cotton shall be ginned until the price has advanced 40 cents per lb. Picked companies sally forth, posting threatening notices at the ginneries and the cotton fields. The negroes are so ter- I rined that it is almost impossible to «et them to remain in the cotton fields.- Renter. • LUKEWARM RESISTERS. DELHI, October 12. t As a result of Ghandi's non-co-operation in regard to propaganda, a number of intending candidates for the Legislative Council have withdrawn, but there have been few resignations of honorary titles or withdrawals of children from schools 1 few ,, prormne . nt Nationalists refused to withdraw their candidatures for the Council, and others, after strongly protesting against Ghandi's programme, resijrr»d from the Nationalist Party.—Reuter

HONOR TO A.I.F. CHAPLAIN,

LONDON, October 12.

(Received October 13, at 8.50 a.m.) The King has approved of the appointment of Bishop Frodsham as vicar of Halifax. This is the biggest Crown appointment short of a bishopric. [The Right Rev. George Horsfail Frodsham is well known in Australia, where for many years he was prominently associated with educational and ecclesiastical work. He is a Fellow of the Australian College of Theology, and an lion. M. \. of the University of Queensland. He was rector of St. Thomas's, Toowong, Brisbane, from 1896 to 1902; chanlain to the Bishop of Brisbane. 1900-02; "chaplain to the Australian Military Forces, 18S9-1910 • and lecturer to the A.LF. in France, 1918* and to the B.E.F. in Germany, 1919~. on Imperial subjects. He has also been associated with missionary work in China, Korea, and Japan. From 1902 to 1913 ho was Bishop of North Queensland. He is 57 years of age.] CHINESE CONSORTIUM. * NEW YORK, October 11. (Received-October 13, at 8.45 a.m.) The Intemational Chinese Consortium has received an application from Belgian bankers for admission. It is understood that the application will be considered favorably.—A. and N.Z. Cable. CRISIS. IN HAVANA. NEW YORK, October 11. (Received October 13, at 9 a.m.) A message from Havana states that, owing to the banking crisis, tha Government have declared a moratorium, which expires on December 1. The Government aro reserving the right to suspend the moratorium sooner, or continue it after the date of expiration. It is declared that the crisis is due to the large mass of business transacted during tho period of prosperity, the tightness of the foreign markets, and the fall in the prices of sugar.— A. and N.Z. Cable. ITALIAN SOCIALISTS. ROME, October 12. (Received October 13, at 10-45 a.m.) The Socialist Congress at Reggio recommended adhesion to the Third. International with the exclusion of»Anarchists and Syndicalists, and a dictatorship over the proletariat, but not necessarily on Russian lines. Violence should only be used as a last, resort, but there must bo no collaboration with the bourgeoisie. A and N.Z. Cable. BELGIAN GRATITUDELONDON, October 12. (Received October 13, at 9.50 a.m.) Princess Napoleon of Belgium, m the presence of a brilliant assemblage, including several Royal personages, unveiled a memorial on Victoria Embankment expressive of Belgium's gratitude for British hospitality to'war refugees. M. Delacroix (Belgian Premier), in presenting the memorial, declared that the friendship between-Belgium .and Britain, established on the battlefield, must continue in the paths of peace. Earl Cui'zon (Foreign Secretary), in accepting the memorial, congratulated Belgium on her speedy recovery from war's ravages. ANOTHER SERAJEVO OUTRAGE. LONDON, October 12. A bomb wrecked two coaches of the Serbian Prince Regent's train in Serajevo (the scene of tho assassination of :he Archduke Ferdinand of Austria and his Duchess on June 28, 1914. the signal "--.r tho mobilisation which led up to the Great War),..