CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18166, 4 August 1919, Page 8

CABLE NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. General Seely, in the House of Commons, stated that all the German airships would bo handed over to tiio aiieTho New Zealand and Australian Officers' Club in Granville Place is being closed. General Johnstone, of JNew Zealand, presiding at an officers dmnor, presented the founder and Hostess, Miss Clost, with a diamond, wristlet watch as a mark of appreciation irom tho thousands of Australian and JMew Zealand officers. Miss Close ib shortly visiting AustralasiaThe parliamentary Labourites censured Mr Noil M'Le'an, the partywhip, for refusing to rise during tho singing of the National Anthem m the House of Commons, in connection with the announcement that the Peace Treaty had been signed. A branch of the Now Zealand Returned Soldiers' Association has been formed in T/ondonAdmiral Fitzmaurice sent a mission to Denizli, under Captain Atkinson, to demand the return of tho women and , children deported from Aidin. The Turks arrested tho mission, but released the members after two days, ordering them to return to Smyrna and refusing to liberate the deportees. The "Gazette" notifies that the blockade of German East Africa has been raised from July 10. The King has conferred a Field-Mar-shalshin on Marshal Foch. A Washington message states that the United States has made a. now loan of 157.549.000 dollars to Franco, making a total of 3,030,026,000 dollars up to date. Tho correspondent of the New York "Evening World" at Washington says tho Treasury Department has announced that the United States exports for tho fiscal year of 1919 totalled more than seven billion dollars. A Sydney message states that the late Sir Samuel M'Causdiv'fi estate has been estimated at £1,750,000, of which £575,000 has been left to soldiers' widows and orphans. Tho Moratorium Bill was read a second time in tho Commonwealth House of Ropresenta.tives. During tho debate Mr Groom stated that the measure extended tho general moratorium to tho end of June, 1920, when it will disappear on a sliding scale. About £100,000,000 is affected. As a result of the increased scale of pensions in Britain the expenditure for the year will be £96,000,000.