CABLE NEWS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVIII, Issue 18584, 10 December 1920, Page 5

CABLE NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUSJTEMS. • A- New* it is iofficially estimated that Mr E. V. Debs received 950,000 votes, the largest number that-a Socialist PftesV dential candidate has revived.. vLieutenant Wiflet. of the American army, that his real namef is:, Hans WiHers. He was-a-'cadet in the German army until Wl4, wheph©and tjiree hnndied other cadets were sent to the United States to jpin;thp # army \ and become officers." y?illeri} did not; serve in France. . His identity was ; discovered when the Secret Service in-. veßtigated his career, following on fais' desertion with funds hejonghyj, to- hiscompany. ' ■ /' Oambridge graduates rejected -by 904 to 712 a proposal to allow tvomen full membership of the university. "While flying v ne&r Marseilles, \a French aviator suddenly' went insanj», and repeatedly tried to decapitate fedestrians. Only frantic dashes enabled hem to avoid the machine. —United. Service. . *. % Count Czernin, a former Austrian.-: Foreign Minister, at present is discom sing with leading pofitieians. at Berlin the possibility of uniting Germany arm, Austria, following the hitter's admission to the League of Nations.-rrßeuter. At the close of a debate in the Belgian Chamber on the Goverhmetttn* policy a man in the public,gallery \vtm\. three shots a* the benchea between *h e Advanced jaberals and SociaKstsy; ghoul* "■ ing that he wapted attention gFregiaGerman, deportations of Belgian I ans. Nothing be*© done for tl»m.; **• way que himself, *