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DREADNOUGHT OF 20,000 TONS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Roc. May 17, 1.45 p.m.) , LONDON, .May 16. An Italian communique Italian officer and three . petty officers entered the port of Pola and torpedoed' -a dreadnought of the Viribus units type, of 20.000 tons. No details arc : given. Seaplanes also bombed Pola. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. (Rec. May 17, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON, May 16. The newspapers criticise the Government's ignorance of the Franco-Oormaii • agreement for the exchange of prison-; ers, and urge Britain to arrange a similar agreement. • AUSTRIA AND GERMANY. VITAL INTERESTS DIVERGENT. (Rec. May 17, 1.20 p.m.) ■ ~'; AMSTERDAM, May 16, M. Harden, in the journal Zunkuft, argues that the vital interests of Austria and CVermanv are divergent. He declares that the "Mattel Europa idea is- a brilliantly organised folly. Austria wants meat and raw materials a:vl monev to purchase them. Victorious' battlefields will not yield money. She also needs freedom to-make agreements with Powers which are Germany's ene-t mies and no:;.. Austria's. She needs American friendship most of all ,and lonsrs for peace with America. The Vorwaerls declares that the Austro-Gernia n Alliance will continue onlv if based on the peoples' willing 1 consent. There J,s little sign of • this consent hi Austria, where Germany is unpopuar owing to Pan-German propaganda. , JEWS AND PALESTINE. AIMiS OF THE ZIONIST COM MISSION" (Australian and N.Z. Cable' Association and Router ) (Rec. -Ma.y 17, 1.20 p.m.) LONDON'. Mny 16. .Speaking at an official dinner, Dr. "Weizamenn. explainimr the aims of the Zionist Commission, said Jewry was returning again to to create a .*■ \hgv(&s ,irmpfmte#& tua] tdutve ' \tindei\ - conditions (if development whereby tno Jewish people would not be ut detn- . ment to anv grout communities already established." All the fears of'the- Arabs' that they would be ousted 1 were .unfounded. The Jews did not intend: to take the supreme political power in Palestine into* their hand* after the war. They desired the supreme political au-, thority to be vested in one of the civi.jsed' democratic powers, to.be selected bv the league of Nations. 1 his jxiw'-i----should hold .Palestine in trust until selfgovernment was practicable. Jowiy would choose that Power and enounce its decision after the war. not believe that the mlernalionidihatio of Palestine or any form ot- multiple, political control could be tolerated. .Aimenian massacres in. the Caucasus' and . the Jewish masswro in lmkestan. showed that Arab, Jew. and Armenian must rtand united in order to resist he forces of darkness and oppress .on tlut cue threatening to overwhelm the civilised world. IH)NNEI _ JU>UGE CASE. (Australian and "nlTCable Association (Rec. May 17, 1.20 p.m.)' . l PARIS, May 16. t LcvTiiarie was sentenced to two years imprisonment in addition to the hue. ST'VTE LOAN FOR WORKMEN'S HOMES. (Rec. May 17, 1.45 p.m.) LONDON. May 16. t The Ministry or '-Jecoi«truction.« . considering the establishment .« "%. , loan banks to assist/ the builder* ,0| | workmen's homes. „;*