CABLE NEWS.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The Pope has excommunicated two hundred Czecho-Slovak priests who defied the Vatican’s interdiction against marriage. Mr Barnes, United States Grain Commissioner, has announced that he will sell five million barrels of flour on credit to Austria, Poland and Hungary unless Congress speedily appropriates fifty million dollars for the relief of these countries. The Orient and Peninsula and Oriental Lines now are paying a rebate to Australian shippers, irrespective of whether they formerly shipped by Commonwealth Oners. A yonth was found dead, with several bullets in his face and body, in a lonely spot in Dublin. The circumstances are similar to those of the alleged Sinn Fein execution at Cork. In Dublin an armed masked party held up mail vans, removed letters addressed to the Viceroy and Departments and escaped.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18351, 8 March 1920, Page 7
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133CABLE NEWS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18351, 8 March 1920, Page 7
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