CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4014, 14 June 1920, Page 6

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Aust.-N.Z. Cable Association.) LIVELY FOR MILLIONAIRES. Rome, June 11. Giolitti's organ, Stanipn, reports that the new Cabinet intends confiscating colossal fortunes which had been accumulated during wartime, and an increase of taxation on property. The new foreign policy will cause great surririse. The newspaper Popolo Romano denies that Giolitti is endeavouring to detach Italy from the Allies. BRITISH TUG MINED. . Amsterdam, June 11. \ A Britsh tug which was towing a German steamer from Chris to Hamburg, was mined at Terchelling. Sixteen were drowned out of 22. NO DISCOUNT FOR GERMANY London, June 11. v The Unionist party, at its annual conference at Birmingham, passed a resolution. - declaring that Germany owes the British Empire its share of the full cost of. the war, and the Conference expects the Government to secure payment. A GERMAN SUICIDES. Delhi, June 11. AVustroff, Consul at Tabriz, is reported to have committed suicide during a, revolt, after turning machine guns on the crowd. He was well known in Indian foreign and political departments. He was a German, not a Russian, and had distributed arms and money freely, with the object of fomenting trouble on the frontier. DYNAMITE EXPLOSION. Vienna, June 12. An explosion at a dynamite depot at a mine belonging to the State railway, in Lower Hungary, now Roumanian territory, caused fearful havoc. No fewer than 17 bodies have been recovered, and 20 are missing PREMIER'S NARROW ESCAPE. Cairo, June 12. A bomb was thrown at the Premier's motor car, injuring the ' chaffeur, two pedestrians and a child. The assailant fled, firing shots ■it his pursuers until arrested. The Premier is unhurt. GERMAN ARMY REDUCED. Berlin, June 13. It is' officially announced tha?"The reduction of the army to 200,000 has now been accomplished.