CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18353, 10 March 1920, Page 7

CABLE NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. The United States Sub-Treasury has recoived six million dollars in gold coin from Canada. Boston shipping suffered severely in a seventy-mile gale during the weekend. The Shipping Board’s steamer Guildford was abandoned on Nantucket Shoals. Tlio steamer Lake Ellithorpe lost her propeller and was driven on to Sable Island. Mr Daniels told the United States Naval Affairs Committee that the extensive development of naval facilities on tlio Pacific coast must be started immediately. Messrs Tripp and Bickford, New Zealand delegates to the Rod Ctosb Convention, have departed for Geneva in time to participate in the proceedings. Mr Maxim Gorky has published an article in tlio newspaper “Democrat,” expressing disappointment of the Bolshevik rule. The revolution, he states, has not been followed by an intellectual regeneration, and the new rulers are as brutal as their predecessors. Mr Godfrey Isaacs hopes to be able in a year or so to establish a regular wireless telephone service between England and Australia.

Mr A. Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced in the House of Commons that Britain’s cash advances to the Allies since the armistice amounted to £169,600,000. The greater part was for war commitments. The committee inquiring into the utilisation of the Admiralty dockyards for building mercantile vessels recommends that the Admiralty should take up the work on the basis of the prices charged by private yards. It is reported from Madrid that the Portuguese Government was defeated on a vote of no-confidence respecting the strikes. The President instructed Senor Silva, the Democratic leader, to fora a Government.

A Mexico City message says that tho discovery of an American kidnapping gang has been reported to the Foreign Office. Tho gang 6eeks to entrap wealthy Americans over the border, with the object of creating trouble between the two countries.

Mr Daniels, Secretary to the United States Navy in emphasising the necessity ror an adequate naval policy, said that unless a naval reserve was buili; up, the United States would enter the next war equally unprepared ns for the last. The country escaped disaster because it had time to prepare to meet Germany. Japanese foreign trade for 1919 shows an advance over 1918 of 650,000,G00 yen, tho bulk of which is found m imports! rather than exports. In exports raw silk nearly doubled in value, despite a sot-back in December, with the result that in 1919 business promotions are described as spectacular, the record total having been reached of 4,201,529,000 yen, more than double tho 1917 total. Tho Edinburgh Royal College of Surgeons has decided to admit women to fellowship on the same terms as men. A terrible new epidemic, called brain influenza, declared to be similar to lethargic encephalitis, is reported fromi Austria. There fare 800 cases in Vienna alone. Tlio is spreading alarmingly over the countrywide. The symptoms begin jvith headaches and sleeplessness, followed by stomaohio convulsions, similar to those of appendicitis, followed by violent delirium. A Swedish Parliamentary Committee, by 15 votes to 11, recommended joining the League of Nations. In the House of Commons, Mr V. O. Bridgeman denied that Australasian meat stocks held up the price of mutton. The stocks would shortly be reduced.

Tho “ Daily Mail ” says thatl Cabinet lias decided to retain food control for five years, increasing the Food Ministry’s powers to fix prices and control distribution.

A remarkable operation was performed at Wandsworth Hospital. A inch needle completely embedded in a child’s heart was safely removed. The patient is recovering.