VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17548, 31 December 1920, Page 9

VARIOUS CABLES

FBENCH SOCIALISTS': Frets Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, December 30. ' The Socialist Congress, by 3,000 votes to 1,200, declared adherence to the Third Moscow International. —A. and N.Z. Cable. (Received December 31, at 8.45 a.m.) The closing session of the Socialist Conference, at Tours was marked by a definite split in the party through the defeat by a two to one majority of a motion disapproving of a telegram from Moscow describing the French and Centres as agents of the Bourgeoisie. Extremists hustled and injured one speaker. The Majority Socialists left the hall in order to establish a Communist Party.—A. and N.Z. Cable. . ' . BIGAMY INCREASING. LONDON, December 29.. Judges have lately expressed the need for more severe sentences on bigamists. Official returns show that the average lias been nearly theefold' greater in the last four years than during the preceding decade. Social workers blame the leniency shown during the war.—A. and N.Z\ Cable. WELSH TINPLATE INDUSTRY. LONDON, December 30. Wages in the Welsh tinplate industry, which employing 27,000 workers, have been reduced os in the pound under a sliding scale owing to the fall iu prices of steel bars.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ENGLISH COAL OUTPUT. LONDON, December 30. The five weeks' output of coal sinco November 20 averaged 5,215,160 tons, giving the miners n wage advance of os 6d per day in January compared with the pre-strike*period.—A." and N.Z. Cable. JOHN M'CORMACK. /' LONDON, December 30. (Received December 51, at 8.45 a.m.) John M'Cormack returns to America in April. He declares that he is the victim of an organised "conspiracy, which compelled hip to cancel half his Australian and all his English concerts.—A. and N.Z. Cable. GREECE AND THE ALLIES. ATHENS, December 30. (Received December 31, at 8.55 a.m.) The Greek reply to the Allied Note will be despatched this week. It is understood that it denies the charges against Constantine favoring Germany, cites his services to the Allies during the war, and reiterates that the Greek policy is true friendship to the Allies.—A. and N.Z. Cable. WRANGEL'S TROOPS. ■ ATHENS, December 30. (Received December 31, at 8.35 a.m.) According to reports from Salonika, General Wrangel has been obliged to disband his troops owing to France's failure to revictual them. Greece has ajlotted them a special zone in order to prevent access to Thrace. There is some talk of Wrangel's troops,with their material, joining Kemal Pasha.—A. and N.Z. Cable. GERMAN INDUSTRIES. BERLIN, December 30. (Received December 31, at 10.35 a.m.) Reports show increasing unemployment. Orders are plentiful in most industries, but there is a shortage of railway transport.—A. and N.Z. Cable. A DUTCH CRUISER, AMSTERDAM, December 30. (Received December 31, at 11 a.m.) Queen Wilhelmina presided at the launching of the new Dutch cruiser Sumatra. This is the first Dutch warship launched in the last decade. She is intended for reconnoitring work in thfe East Indies.—A. and N.Z. Cable. FOOD-PRICES. LONDON, December 30; (Receievd December 31, at 11 a.m.) The Food Ministry expects a drop in bread, sugar, and "flour prices by the spring.—A. and N.Z. Cable.