CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3889, 2 December 1919, Page 4

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.) ' (Aus.-N.Z. Cable Association.) 1 London, Nov. 27. \ The Manche-stcr Guradmu .says that never in the whole; fa.sto/y oi the ar-' my has such a brilliant batch of offi-{ «er students been at the .Staff College at Caiuberley. They include five holders of the Victoria Cross including . Colonel Freyberg. All the Dominionr ; I are rep resented. Tho latest outrage in Dublin ia the /eport that Detective-Sef-jreunt Barton has been .shot dead "in Colic tie Street. in the House of Commons the Premier denied thut he had given President Wilson an undertaking to decide the Irish question. A Belgian soldier and three Allied prisoners has arrived here in n pitiable plight from a German prison in the Hartz mountains, in Southern Hanover. They deoaie I hat then: are still a number of Allied prisoners of war there who are utterly ignorant that the war is over. A single, diamond at a. London auction realised £73C0. The price is understood to he a record. Tho New Zeal and Shipping Company's} SwakopmuTKl, another ex-Gor-man liner, h on fire at tbe docks, and her destruction is feared. "Pussyfoot" Johnston, the American Anti-Saloon League organiser. wfio liar; been active in England, had an eve injured whon he was "ragged by students. The eye has been removed. Berlin, Nov. 27. The N:.tional Assembly has requested the Government to reduce Germany's -own ration of flour Jn order to send supplies to Austria, er-> ptx-iallv to Vienna. It is said that Germany is striving to send speedy and effective assistance, although her own economic situation is difficult. Berlin, N0v.27. A sensational story has been published alleging that documents have been discovered proving th-at prominent Socialists, in eluding Herr Ebert, Herr Noske, and Herr Scheidermarin, participated in extensive smuggling and profiteering, by which large fortunes were made. TJie Daily Mail's correspondent states that the oociiments relate to gigantic transactions, one involving £1,000,000. Herr Scheidermann dec-fares the majority of the documents arc impudent forgeries, but he asserted that others will bear the closest ininspection.

Paris, Nov. 27. Following thousands of American applications for permision to exmune 'and repatriate American soldiers buried in France, the Foreign Oiliee has announced that British and French families are similarly applying, and owing to the insufficient transport for urgent food and economic needs, it is unlikely that permits will be granted before 1922.

Sydney, Nov. 27. The Minister of Repatriation announced that in view of the increased cost of living the Repatriation Commission is raising the sustenance allowance by 5s weekly where the total allowance is not under £3 2s Gd per week. A slightly smaller increase will be made where incomes exceed that amount.

Useful rain iia,s fallen in the eastern half of the State and the Riverina. The drought in tbe western districts Has not been relieved.

Brisbane, Dec. I. A domestic tragedy is reported from Sunnybank. A Russian quarrelfed with his wife, produced a revolver and commenced shooting. His wife jumped from the window and received internal injuries. The husband then turned the revolver on the children, of whom he shot five, and then shot himself, and another lad escaped. One girl died en route to the hospital.

Mr Ryan, after touring some of fhe States, is very optimistic about the election results, and predicts an easy Labour victory with the defeat of =ix members of the Cabinet, includinc Mr (Hughes himself. Supporters of Mr (Hughes and the strongest sections of (.tjie Press; are; convinced that Mr ißvan is allowing his optimism to badly mislead him.