NEWS FROM ABROAD

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10634, 6 July 1920, Page 6

NEWS FROM ABROAD

HONOURS FOR NAVAL MEN. Reuter’s Telegram. LONDON, July 3. The King has approved of naval clasps to the War Medal for general actions at sea, single ship actions, actions with enemy land troops, etc. Single ship actions include the fights with the Kindeu and Konigsberg, while the operations in Mesopotamia, the Red Sea,-the African lakes, German East Africa, the Pacific Islands, and the Cameroons are included under actions- with land troops. A GERMAN APPRECIATION. BERLIN, July 4. During a debate in the Reichstag*on the emergency Budget, which includes provision for a Government contribution of 13,000 million marks towards the cost of distributing gifts from abroad, the President of the Reichstag, Herr Loebe, in the name of all the parties, expressed most cordial thanks for the • magnanimous assistance given' to Gorman children by the .Society of Friends in England and America, philanthropists in Denmark, Sweden, and Switzerland, and other countries, and Germans in America. He added: “The German nation will never forget the affection bestowed pn its children.” Loud cheers were given from all parts of the House. FATAL RAILWAY DISASTER. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, July 4. Twenty-six people were killed and a hundred injured in a railway accident in Pennsylvania. FOOD RIOTS IN GERMANY. " , ~ BERLIN, July 3].. There have been further food disturbances here and at Worms, where shops were plundered and the police were helpless. French patrols cleared the street. The damage, is estimated at three million marks. ■ GERMAN WORKERS FOR RUSSIA. BERLIN, July 4.

The Confederation of Labour has accepted the Soviet Government’s invitation to send -epresentatives to Russia to arrange for the immigration of suitable German workers. ZEPPELINS FOR AMERICA. "BERLIN, July 4. A Zeppelin similar to L7l, which was taken to England a few days ago, is to be surrendered in a, dismantled condition to an American committee during the coming week,, and will bo reassembled in America by German engineers- Three others pf this type, which were being completed when the armistice was signed, "'ill be handed over to America. There are indications that America will use all four for a trans-Atlantio air service. Two more are being made ready for delivery to France, and another is to go to Italy. JAPAN’S ECONOMIC DEGRESSION. (Received July 5, 6.5 p.m.) TOKIO, July 4. A telegram' from Osaka states that 80.000 workers were discharged there during June owing to the- economic depression. JAPAN’S” DEFENCE. (Received July 5, 5.5 p.m.) TOKIO, July 4. A Supplementary Naval Budget amounting to 84,000,000 dollars and army credite of 48,000,000 "will bo asked of the Diet. One: item will bo 6.500.000 for aviation.