GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1710, 10 January 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

GERMAN PRISONERS RELEASED,

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Australian-New Zealand CaWe^A^atioi. Nearly a. thousand Gorman war prisoners have sailed for Germany. _ CHINA’S CUSTOMS REVENUE. TIENTSIN, Jan. 7. The Customs revenue for China m 1919 was 46,000,000 taels. Thia is a ™oord yet the is practically empty, owing to the squandering by officials. VARSITY BOAT RACE. LONDON, Jan. 7. Tire Varsity boat race will bo resumed on March 27. JAPANESE COASTAL TRADE. TOKIO,' Jan. 7. It Is understood that the Government intends to permit forcign-owned steamers to engage in Japanese coastal trade. MURDERED IN MEXICO. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Another murder of an American Is reported from Tuxpam, Mexico. Iho murdered man was an employee of an American company. BULGARIAN RIOTS. SOFIA, Jan. 8. The Government has called out the reserves to act agairfet the strikers. 1 rafhc is everywhere at a standstill, and there is fighting in many towns. The Government has resigned and the Socialists are trying to form a Cabinet' under M. Danelf. GERMAN RAILWAY TROUBLES. LONDON, Jan. 6. A recrudescence • of / the -railwaymen’s troubles in Central Germany is threatening. The men are demanding the establishment of the Soviets, besides higher wages. The Western railwayman have already declared that the strike trouble may involve the fall of the Government. SOVIET AMBASSADOR’S ARREST. WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The arrest of M. Maartens., Soviet Ambassador, has been ordered in connection with the disclosure of Soviet propaganda in the United State's.