CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18220, 7 October 1919, Page 7

CABLE NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS, The “ New York Times ” Washington correspondent states that it is understood that the United States objects to the Anglo-Persian Treaty on the ground that it violates the principles of the League of Nations, and was concluded. against the 'will of tho Turkish people. The “New York Post” commenting upon tho assertion that the International Labour Conference will have twenty-four British members and only four Americans, says:—“lt is an absurdity to make any effort to deprive Australia. Canada and the other Dominions of representation at the World’s Labour Conference- It is plain that those are fields in which Australia and Now Zealand lead tho world.” Mr A. E. Strauss, M.P., chairman of the London Housing Board, is studying housing conditions for the purpose of applying the American solution to the congestion in London. The Parisian theatre strike has ended, tho strikers’ claims being granted except employment to unionists only. Mr Gompers, giving evidence before the Inter-State Commerce Committee of the United States Houso of Representatives, protested against the antistrike feature of tho Tentative Railroad Regulation BUI. He declared that he did not believe that constitutional labour would not oboy, but opposed compulsory arbitration. Tho American Consulate in Mexico City reports: —It is understood that a Japanese company proposes to establish a new lino of steamships between the Pacific Coast and Mexico. Telegrams from Tho Hague state that tho ex-Crown.Prince has arrived from Wierengon to visit his father. Two officers of vpn Ludendorff’s staff have also arrived from Germany. “Lo Matin’s” Hague correspondent says that 170 German aeroplanes, with part of the material which was deliverable to tlio Allies, recently flew to Holland, where their numbers were changed. The weather was fine for the. Eight Hours demonstration and sports in Sydney. Dig crowds witnessed a procession of seven tv-five unions, headed by many returned soldier unionists. The increase in wages recently granted to Australian seamen is to bo passedl cm to the public by an increase from yesterday in fares and freights on interstate steamers.

The Turkish Government, headed by Damadferid Pasha', has resigned. Tho “ New York Times ” Washington coiTespondent states that tho United States Council of National Defence in a statement says that the high cost of living is duo to failure to utilise to the full the nation’s productive- powera since the armistice, unavoidable war waste, increase of money credits, and considerable intentional and unintentional profiteering. The remedies aro prodmiCtioiP of moro necessities, tho stamping out of profiteering, and a better method of distributing and marketing. . *

Tho “ Now York World’s ” Kingston correspondent states that oublio opinion is strongly against the suggestion of Mr John Crowo, a Newfoundland millionaire, that Jamaica should bo annexed for commercial and political purposes to Canada.