VARIOUS CABLES

Evening Star, Issue 17710, 11 July 1921, Page 6

VARIOUS CABLES

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. TWO WAR PREMIERS. LONDON, July 9. Mr Massey -has received many felicitations upon entering the tenth year of his premiership. .Mr Lloyd George insisted upon being photographed with Mr Massey at Downing' Street,—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Mr Llovd George and Mr Massey are the only jhrimo Ministers in the Empire who we.ro at the head of their Governments in war-time.] FAIRY TALES. MR HUGHES'S GRIEVANCE. LONDON, July 8. The day after Mr Hughes at tho Conference had complained of the inadequate and misleading news regarding Australia, a cable from Sydney said that wild dogs from tho centre wero steadily creeping over New South Wales, and that the farmers were retiring before the menace. Mr Hughes says: “It is lamentable to find such gross and mischievous misrepresentation. It is hard to express one’s indignation at such venomous attempts to belittle and injure our great and rich country. I can only look to public opinion in Australia to deal with this kind of cable. The recrudescence of the wild dog myth comes at a moment when I hold an official message from Australia about the remarkably favorable position. Nothing could bo more contradictory than this information from the Government and the story of desolation cabled from Sydney. This kind of news, served up in England and to the world, will affect, our credit and will be destructive to the price of our commodities.” • Mr Hughes has directed the attention of tho proprietors of tho London newspapers to tho misleading statement.—A. and N.Z. Cable. UNEMPLOYMENT IN BRITAIN. LONDON. July 8. The unemployed now registered number 2.168,727, being 9.172 below the previous week, which is the first decrease in eight months. Tho decrease is clue to a slight revival of industry, resulting from the settlement of the coal strike.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BOLSHEVISM IN .RUSSIA. EFFECT OX POPULATION. COPENHAGEN, July 8. Since 1914 the population of Russia has decreased by 12,000.000. The population of Moscow is now' on.lv 1,000,000. —A. and N.Z. Cable. DISARMAMENT MOVEMENT. TOKIO, July 9. Tho ex-Mblister of Justice is returning from a 10,000-mile trip, in tho course of which he spoke in various places on behalf of disarmament. Ho stated that if the American Government proposes an international conference to discuss restrictions or disarmament it will surely ho the beginning of tho solution of all diplomatic questions between Japan and the United States. He added that his audiences overwhelmingly favored disarmament,—A. and N.Z. Cable. WOOL TEXTILE INDUSTRY, LONDON, July 8. The ‘ Yorkshire Post ’ says that the textile employers regard the nationalisation scheme as’an unseasonable joke.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LABOR TROUBLES IN BERLIN. BERLIN, July 8. Owing to their failure to secure better wages and working conditions, the gas, electrical, waterworks, and tramway workers are preparing to strike. There is also considerable unrest among the telegraph and telephone operators.—A. and N.Z. Cable. JUTLAND PRIZE -MONEY. LONDON, July 8. The bounty money awarded in connection with the Battle of Jutland will be distributed to the officers and crews of 151 ships, tho lowest grade receiving 2a and the captains £8 4s 3d.—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE ALIGARH RIOTING. DELHI, July 9. Tho police made an extraordinarily fine defence at Aligarh during the riots. Only twelve men were available, four of whom wore armed. These constates successfully defended the Treasury against a mob of about 2,000. —A. and N.Z. Cable. BRITISH PENSIONS. LONDON, July 8. In the House of Commons Mr J. L. Macpherson (Minister of Pensions), in moving the second reading of tho Pensions Bill, stated that the pensioners totalled 3,500,000, which would probably be the maximum. The Bill proposed to remove the control of tho payment of pensions from tho local committees, in order to secure greater efficiency and economy. During seven months there had been 126 cases of fraud among tho officials of the local committees.—A. and N.Z. Cable. AERIAL MALS. LONDON, July 8. Tho Australian Press Association learns that an experiment for tho aerial conveyance of Indian mails will probably be undertaken in September. If it is successful a regular service will ho maintained.—A. and N.Z. Cable. LONDON'S NEW DOCK. LONDON, July 8. Tho King, during the course of a brilliant river pageant, opened the extension of the Victoria-Albert Docks. An enormous crowd witnessed the ceremony. —A. and N.Z. Cable. MEAT STORE FOR PARIS. ' PARIS, July 9. (Received July 11, at 9.5 n.m.) ; Tho Minister of Agriculture formally opened at Ivry, near Paris, the largest refrif'eratlng plant in Europe, with a : capacity of 6,000 tons of meat, representing the consumption in Paris for fifteen days.—Renter. DEFERRED PRESS MESSAGES. LONDON, July 10. (Received July 11, at 10.50 a.ra.) Tho Pacific Cable Board is resuming deferred Press messages from Britain to Australia.—A. and N.Z. Cable. . UNITED STATES STEEL PRICES. A FURTHER REDUCTION. NEW YORK. July 6. (Received July 11, at 10.55 a.m.) Tho United States Steel Corporation announces further reductions in its prices, ranging from 4dol to lOdol per ton,—A. and N.Z. Cable. FINANCIER ARRESTED. NEW YORK, July 6. (Received July 11, at 10.55 a.m.) J, E. Chilberg, who bought wooden vessels built by the United States on account of tho Australian Government, and later failed to pay tho instalments, surrendered to tho authorities in Seattle in connection with the failure of tho ScandinavionAmerican and American banks at Tacoma and Seattle. Five indictments charge Chilberg with, making excessive loans to himself and to one director from the Tacoma Bank, of which Chilberg was formerly president.—A. and N.Z, Cable,

" U.S. NAVAL ECONOMIES. WASHINGTON, July 6. (Received July 11, at 10.55 a.m.) Mr Thee. Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, pursuing tho economy programme, sold 151 submarine chasers and fifteen other vessels. Ho will sell tho battleships Maine, Missouri, Wisconsin, and other historic obsolete crafts.—A. and N.Z. Cable. JAPAN AND AMERICA. TOKIO, July 6. M. Kaku, Secretary of the Japanese embassy at Washington, in a statement said ; “ President Harding has often had occasion to express the conviction that the Anglo-Japanoso Entente should bo made the basis of a world peace. My impression is that Americans are prepared to fight if they are challenged; but otherwise they Will bo the last "to take up arms against the Japanese.”—A. and* N.Z. Cable.