CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18352, 9 March 1920, Page 8

CABLE NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. General Currie, addressing the Old Comrades' Association of Princess Patricia’s Regiment, at Montreal, revealed the inner story of Passchcndaele Ridge. Ho said that the politicians rudely interfered with tho plans of Marshal Foeh and lueld Marshal Haig for 1917. . Owing to the submarine depredations, there wa.s sometimes only from four to seven days supplies in France. The moral or the British army began to be affected, when every 7 effort to capture Passchendacle failed. The Government was not willing to find what terms could he secured and Field Marshal Haig decided, for tho sake of moral to take the position, which had previously denied all assaults.

Over half a ton of gold and silver bars, which are alleged to have been made from British coinage, were seized in a. Whitechapel jeweller’s shop. Two foreigners were arrested. Two Communists attempted to shoot M. Friedrich, tho Hungarian War Minister, but missed him. The assailants escaped. The German and Russian Governments have decided to inaugurate an aerial postal service between Berlin and Moscow, via Esthonia,

Many German journals advocate the conscription of labour of both sexes for twelve months to facilitate Germany’s resuscitation.

The London newspapers are discussing reconstruction of the Cabinet. They anticipate that Sir R. S. Horne will be President of tho Board of Trade, Dr Macnamara or Sir L. Worthington Evans, Minister of Labour, and Mr M’Ourdy. Minister of Food. The Convocation of Oxford University, by 434 votes to 449, finally abolished compulsory Greek. Marshal Foch is expected at Warsaw in connection with the organisation of the Polish Army, now numbering .twen-ty-four divisions. Industrial unrest is spreading in India. Thirty 7 thousand struck at Jamshedpur. The mill strike at Sholatpur continues. , , , Tho South Wales Workers’ steel strike is spreading. Sixty thousand now are affected. Heavy floods and snowstorms on the Atlantic coast of the United States caused damage to the extent of more than two million dollars. Mr Chamberlain announces that the British and French Governments have decided not to renew the loan issued in tho United States in 1915 on their joint and several security, and are taking the necessary 7 steps to provide for its repayment. An Imperial News SerTice message states that tho loan to which Mr Chamberlain referred was floated as the result of a visit to America by an Anglo-French mission following a heavy fall in American exchange, Britain and! Franco each assuming a liability of 250,000,000 dollars. A cable message from London states that Trinity College of Music has appointed Mr Charles Schelsky to conduct the New Zealand examinations in 1920. Tho continued lack of news from Japan, combined with the unexplained absence of official telegrams to the Foreign Office at London, suggests a senoil's political disturbance. Ministerialists in the Can no inn House of Commons cheered Mr M Kenzie. deputy Opposition leader, when lie ttdvocnted tho cessation of trndo "w »tli the United States until Canadian currency waß accepted at par.