MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume X, Issue 243, 30 October 1920, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

No-license advocates in Glasgow arranged all night prayers on Friday for the polling on Tuesday Britain. France and Italy have signed a treaty giving Rumania Bessarabia. Germany is handing over flags captured from Napoleon as compensation for the flags taken in 1870. which the German students destroyed after the Versailles Treaty was signed. A Loudon message says that it is rumoured that large tonnage has been fixed for Australian wheat. Details are now yet available, but it is bxfleved that the rate freight exceeds the last fixtures. At Port Elizabeth (South Africa) the evidence of the police and other witnesses at the inquest on victims of the recent riots, established the fact that several natives armed with revolvers commenced shooting, to which the poii’e subsequently replied. The Japanese Minister of War states that there is no truth in the report that the new fortifications at Bonin Islands are due to any present necessity and that they are merely carrying out plans delayed through lack of appropriations. He also denies the reports of a lack of harmony between the Chinese and Japanese troops operating on the Korean frontiers. Opinion in authoritative British circles concerning the action of the Government in waiving the right to attach Germany property in the United Kingdom is that there is nothing in it inconsistent with perfect loyalty to the Treaty of Versailles and that it in nowise implies a revision or modification of the treaty. The only effect of the renunciation will be to free international commerce from restrictions and uncertainties.