CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18412, 19 May 1920, Page 7

CABLE NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Three million Chinese students who rebelled on April 14 against tho Pekin Military Government's direct negotiation with Japan regarding the Shantung settlement, have returned to their duties, and the striko is atf an end, owing to the failure of support from the crafts unions. A wavo of patriotism has swept over the country. The Japanese Foreign Office states that tho Consortium will have the exelusivo rights of making loans to China, either direct or to the Chinese Government or on guarantee to the Chinese Government and raised by public issuo. Loans by Chinese capitalists or corporations will bo outside tho scope of the Consortium. t Tho State Department at Washington informed tho Senate that Britain's policy in reference to tho world's petroleum supply is reported to bo to exclude aliens from control of oil sources within the Empire and obtain somo measure of control over oil properties in other countries. A United Servico message from Amsterdam states that the ex-Kaiser left Amorongen for Droom on May 16. He loft by tho back door, avoiding tht crowds and photographers. Ho gave Count Bentinck a bust of himself, ant distributed photographs. Tho last days at Amorongen were markod by family rows, one of which was visible from tho road. The Kaiser shook bis fist in his daughter-in-law's faoe. Ho was very agitated. In the House of Commons, replying to Captain Wedgwood Benn, Mr Bonar Law stated that the Council of the League of Nations, sitting at Rome, would discuss the question of sending a Mission of Inquiry to Soviet Russia. There is recurrence of Harbin reports of Japanese activity in Manchuria. It is stated that they entered into a secret agreement with Semenolf, by which they have taken ovor the Cbinese railway from Changchun to Harbin. They also signed a. secret agreement with tho chiefs of nativo robber bands, who were bound to organise brigandage, foment disorder in Manchuria and destroy property, so as to provide the Japanese Government with a pretext to intervene and seize the Chmo.se eastern railway in the name of protectors of the peace, of tho Far East. A United Service message states that Bolshevist trade delegates now in London are attempting to revive Antjlo-Russian trade relations, but declare their inability to give guanantees, whereas tho British Government is' insisting on tho strictest guarantees for tho protection of British traders. It is understood that all the British troops in France and Flanders will be withdrawn before the end of summer. Twenty-five Indians have left Fiji for Auckland.