GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3737, 24 March 1919, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

■Au«.-N Z. Cable Association.;

INFLUENZA IN SYDNEY

Sydney, March 23. There has been a sudden liicreaKO in the virulence of inlluenza. Seven deaths and sixty new cases were reported yesterday. The total for the week was 15 deaths and 642 cases. BOLSHEVISM IN AUSTRALIA. Branches of a secret society are being formed in all the States, which are carrying out propoganda with tlie object oi revolutionisiiig the country on the lines of the Rusiaii Soviets.. An extraordinary circular lias been distributed, outlining Ihe methods by formrig groups as literary, chePH. and other clubs for the purpose of |M?nneating the minds ol the people wilh tho principles of revolutionary i-'ocialism, so thai- when the lime, urines lor it change I'nun capitalism to a .system of communism .under work-ing-class control, il, can be swiftly brought about. PETERSHAM RY-ELECTJON. The Petersham by-election resulted in a narrow Nationalist 'majority, Shillingtou securing 2633 votes ami Okie 2377.

IF THE WAR HAD LASTED

Washington, March J 7

Mr Roosevelt. Assistant Secretary to the Navy, in a statement/ r-nKt that if the war had lasted until the spring, the American and British Governments would have sent non-in-llainiiiable helium-filled rigid airships over strategic spots in Germany, each airship capable of discharging ten tons of boiiibs and repelling airplane attacks. GUARDS DIVISION IN LONDON. London, March 22. A great reception was given to tinGuards' Division of 10,000 men when arriving in London on Saturday, the liu-tion attracting much notice owing to the Labour troubles. Later. The Household Cavalry headed the victory march of the Guards., Division of 8.300 men through London's betiagged streets, from Buckingham Palace In tliie Mansion House .thence to Hyde Park. The Prince of Wales, as .Staff-Captain, rode at the left side ol the Commander of the Division. The King, Queen and Princess Mary watched the procession from a dais in the forecourt of Buckingham Pal■>.ce. Cheering spectators thronged tho route, on which the Dominions and American soldiers occupied reserved enclosures. It was the first important procession of British troops in London since the outbreak of the war. The Guards' war casualties were: 13.GC9 killed and 23,002 wounded. IRISH POLITICS. . The by-election in North Londonderry resulted: Barrio (Unionist) 9.9.13. McGilligau (Sinn Fein) Aim. KOREAN APPEAL FOR INDEPENDENCE. The Korean National Association ( has asked President Wilson to initiate action at tho Peace Conference towards obtaining independence for Komi . Despatches from Assaghai say the disorders in Korea a*re more 'widespread than are admitted by the Japanese authorities. In one instance 30 rioters were killed and 40 wounded.

BRITISH CREDIT IN AMERICA. !

The removal of the British Government control of the Anglo-American exchange has caused a further decline of tho value of the British £ in New York to-day to •!_, dollars (I6s 8d). The situation is viewed with anxiety in Britain, because the prevailing inindustrial unrest has diminished the prospectß of increased export trade to America. BRITAIN'S TOURING AIRSHIP. A British non-rii'id airship has loured the coasts of Denmark, Germany, Norway, and Scotland, a total distance of 12H5 air miles. The time occupied was lo._ hours, a record. Pickles flew a now seaplane through the. overhead structure of the Tower liridge, over the Thames, at midday at 120 miles an hour. PROPOSED CHANNEL TUNNEL. The Association learns that the Admiralty is prepared to- agree to the Channel Tunnel if certain conditions of indestructibility are observed. I-'UEXCH PRAISE OF AUSTRALIA General Pau, on his arrival in London, said thatl his mission's receptions had greatly strengthened Fran-co-Ai-<-trulian ties'. Dr. Siegfreid said that social equality was the most attractive feature of Australian life. Australia was the most democratic country in the world. AMERICAN MEAT TRUST.

The Star, referring to New Zealand's complaint that 1,000,000 carcases of meat which the -British Government had purchased during the war await shipment, while interior American meat is selling at high prices iv the United Kingdom, declares that the Ministry has played into the hands of the American meat trade. Britain possesses in the Australasian meat supplies a powerful weapon to light the American Meat Trust, hut the Government declines to use ft. The Government's policy irritates Australasia and helps the Trust to rob British consumers. FRANCE'S GIFT TO CANADA. France is presenting Vimy Ridge to Canada. [Vimy Itidgo is* tho plaeo where the Canadians were so terribly cut up by the Germans over two years ago. It is a long ridge of several miles, dominating the great coalfields of France where finch destruction was wrought during the war. The advance up the hill from the west is very steep, and is pock-marked with dug-outs. On the top are a number of German pill-boxes and dug-ojits, thousands of shell-holes, and barbed-wire entanglements. A large Cimiidiau cemetery is situated there. A view of the ground won by the Canadians is clear proof of the marvellous valour displayed by theso troops.J NATIONAL MORTGAGE PROFITS. The National Mortgage and Agency Co., of New Zealand shows a profit of £61,813, paying a final dividend of Is Gd a share and a bonus of 3s. £5000 has been placed to reecrvo, and £20,813 carried forward. AMERICAN BATTLESHIPS AS TRANSPORTS. The United States are using battleships and cruisers to transport their troops.. The vessels will make a round trip from Brest to New York in forty days, the battleships carrying 1200 and the cruisers 150 men. BILLIARDS. In the billiard match final, Inman made 16,000 and Stevenson 9468.