CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18435, 15 June 1920, Page 9

CABLE NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Chancellor yon Ronner has resigned with tho Social Domocratio members from the Coalition Government of Austria owing to an acute difference with th© Christian 1 Socialists, who threatened lo leave the Coalition. The Argentine Senate has passed a Bill imposing an export tax on wheat and flour. . . . . Advices from Tangier state that after several years of intermittent lighting and serious losses, the Frenoh authorities liavo seoujred the submission of the powerful Zain tribesmen inhabiting the western slopes of the 1 josser Atlas. Great reconciliation llfctcs were held, and tho tribesmen restored captured trophies. The submission opens an important direct routo from Fez to Marrakesh.—Reuter, A Rome message states that troops liavo occupied Milan railway station owing to the railwayman s strike. . , Tho Spanish Government is drafting a Bill for tho construction of a second squadron comprising vessels of all descriptions. Reuter states that at the final mooting of the Imperial Entomological Conference, I-ord Harcourt prosiding, a resolution > was passed in favour of holding a similar conference in London every five years. It established an Imperial Bureau of Entomology on a permanent basis, and recommended that contributory Governments should guarantee contributions and make provision for a total incomo of £3OOO. The " News of the World ” states that Mr Watt’s resignation was due to the discovery that Mr Hughes had not communicated to him tho contents of cablegrams between Mr Hughes and the Imperial Government regarding wool. Hinkler lias abandoned his flight to Australia, and returned to England. The Papal Encyclical, permitting Roman Catholic sovereigns to visit Romo, as the outcome of tho Vatican’s now policy of participating in Italian politics, will enable Italy to enter into closer relations with other Cathollo countries. Tho Vatican’s pro-Italian policy has angered the Jugo-Slavs. It is believed that tho King of Spain will shortly visit Rome.