CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18116, 5 June 1919, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The President of Brazil is visitinjE London- He was accorded a semi-Royal l 1-eception. He will attend thq Derby a» the King’s guest. ! • ■ The “ World’s” Paris correspondent says that news has been received that Japan has dispatched a military -mission to Germany for the purpose of studying cond.tions m Germany during the next threo years. It is reported that a Bolshevist plot has been suppressed in Finland. Ita object was the overturning of the Government. There is a general subway strike, in Paris and fifty thousand miners are idle atPas De Calais. New York dispatches from Tokio say saw that the leaders of Chinese students in Japan have signed their names to a resolution with their own blood, calling upon* the 4000 Chinese students to turn to China as a protest against the v Shantung settlement under, the tonna of the Peace Treaty. , The House of Lords has decided than bequests for masses for, the dead are legal, reversing' the judgment of the Court of Appeal, given, in July, 1918. The Very Rqv Robert Snowden Hay has been elected Bishop of Tasmania. The number of war pensions in Australia totals 215,005, involving an annual liability of £5,109,232. 1 Tlie New*Zealand crew which defeated the American Expeditionary Force, drew at tlie Seine regatta, Paris, recently, hai been invited to compete at. the American national championship Te-v gatta, which will be held at Worcester, Massachusetts, on August 2, under tho auspices of the National Association or Amateur Oarsmen.

According to the New York “Tribune ” Tex Ricjtard, promoter of tho W'il!ard-Dcmp.sey fight, has ’cabled an invitation to the Prince of Wales, Mr Lloyd George, Marshal Foch and 'Mri Clernenceau, asking them to bo hi?" guests and to witness the fight on July 4.

P. F. Warner, discussing the merits ' of the Australian cricketers, predicts : that they will prove a far stronger team than most people imagine.. ' During a strike .riot in Toledo. Ohio, two strikers were killed and six wound- ' ed when the soldiers fired on the strikers.

■'The British crew of the ex-German' steamship Burgomaster Schroeder, food-A laden for Hamburg, refused to sail. They agreed to take the ship to Rotterdam. - „ : The trial has begun at* Genoa of twentv-eiirht German agents, mostly Italian and Swiss anarchists, on charges of plotting a revolution in Switwrlan-T. and the murder of Baron Sonnino and Sicnor Salnndrn. also the destruction of the Alpine tunnels and the banjis in Rome and Milan. Manv bombs 'djs-' plavod in court were of leading German ’ milita r v brands. • .• ',

A Handley Pane Pervice machine, with a crew of eiirht and a load _ cf 24.890 pounds, covered 836 miles, visitin"- various points in England and remaining in the air for twelve hours. " The P'ris.correspondent of the vr "'V York “ Herald ” ' iterviewed Baron Mai kino, who said tho 'alliance must continue. While there .haa been criticism of +k- _ Alliance, serious responsible men realise that Japan’s good understanding with England must continue. The Odhurv-Frv firms have coinhired to form t-h* British rw.-v Pompnnv. with a capital of £2,105 000. Rignor Bamlaii Ttnlinff peace delegate, ie dead. . ■ , ' The House of Oopimous carried the <-A-rtnd reodm? of tho Dormant B >nk Brian res ,Bill introduced Im Mr trorntin Bottom lev with the object of securino for the Ftata vtnehvmod moneys Jr the hands henks and' comnanier. Tie osHm-vtaA Bre at least A hundred