CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 18286, 23 December 1919, Page 7

CABLE NEWS.

j MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. 1 The Japanese -Cabinet has decided Ho send a Btrong protest requesting CEina to control the anti-Japanese movements which have assumed large proportions in Shanghai, Nanking, . Woochang, Hankow and other cities in the Yangtso region. \ The " Daily Mail” states that Pro- . fessor Arnold, Professor of Metallurgy 1 at Sheffield University, has produced a ; new steel, the hardness and cutting powers of which are far beyond all existing qualities of high-speed steel. A Perth message, says that the ‘ Government are raising railway fares and freights. * This is estimated to increase the revenue by £350,000 yearly, which is the amount the new (Arbitration Court award will cost the State. i The Statistical Conference, at which Mr G. H. Knibbs; Commonwealth Statistician, will represent the Cornmon- ! wealth, will open in London on JanuJ ary 20. "Morning Post” messages from lAgram state-that the Piume Municipal i Council has. passed a resolution protesting against D’Annunzio’s occupation of the city. D’Annunzio thereupon harangued the citizens, who hissed jhim. While cruising off Swansea, near • Lake Macquarie heads, a motor launch with a party of ten men capsized as the result of an engine failure in af j strong- wind. Seven of the occupants | were drowned. | The Germans tried many dodges when [•confronted at the meeting of Ministers and Ambassadors which replaced the [Supreme Council. They produced (figures halving tho Allied experts’ estimates of Germany’s shipping material. .The Allies agreed to accept 200,000 rtons of dock material as compensation (for the Scapa Flow sinkings, plus |50,000 tons of new ships which the Germans undertook to construct within la limited period- Germany offered halfibuilt Dreadnoughts instead of cruisers and destroyers, claiming that the latter were necessary to police her shores. CM. Olemonoeuu drily replied: “ Why haven’t the Dreadnoughts already, been (broken up in accordance with the Treaty ?” The / Bomhala, which recently went ashore off tho Queensland coast, was refloated by blowing away tho reef, and was towed to Townsville, i The Geneva correspondent of tho '•'Daily Express” states that tho Armenian Bureau reports that Enver Pasha was elected King of Kurdistan. It is believed. that he wishes to imitate d’Annunzio.

A message from Norfolk (Virginia) states that twenty persons, are beliovea to have been lost in the Cuban steamer Sunbeam, whidh overturned in mid*ca. At Kansas City twenty-seven members of the I.W-VV. were sentenced to from threo to nine years’ imprisonment pa their conviction of conspiracy against the Government, j Japan has agreed to stop the emigration of women to the United States. I Th© Japanese Ambassador to the (United States, Shidehara, in a statement says that Japan ie not contemany acquisition of lands in