CABLES IN BRIEF

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10688, 7 September 1920, Page 6

CABLES IN BRIEF

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright A message from Berne states that the Swiss Social Democrats hare declined to join the Moscow International. Berlin newspapers report that the In ter-Allied Commission has'" accepted' the resignations of three of the British Controllers in Upper Silesia, tendered .owing to the partiality displayed by the French at Tarnowitz, Grosstrehlitz, and Beuthen. The famous big "Ferris" wheel, near tho Eiffel Tower, is to be demolished at the end of the .month, and the steel will be cut up into 'sections for reconstruction work in the devastated areas. It will furnish eleven thousand tons of girders and a quantity of Iscrap. "''■• ; - ; '■■"■" ,: '■'■'.■'- i [ Sir Joseph Gook and Senator Millen denied statements that the battlecruiser Australia is obsolete and about to ro out of commission. The idea of scrapping her was absurd, added Sir Joseph Cook. The amount subscribed to - the New South Wales Peaco Loan is eleven, millions. The loan closes to-day, bufr fourteen millions are still required. The schooner Louis Theriault, hound from Adelaide to Auckland, was towed into Sydney in a leaky condition. Bela Kitn is reported to be in Petrograd, exhorting Hungarian prisoners to form themselves into a "Red" army under his leadership, enter Hungary, and re-establish a dictatorship. Professor Kemp' played tho piano continuously for liO hours in London, heating the world's record hold by a New Zealander. Negotiations are proceeding for the appointment pi a Mexican-American Commission' to settle the amounts owing to Americans whoso property was destroyed in the recent Mexican revolutions. :, Italy recently returned four thousand Russians captured in Austrian trenches. When tho vessels arrivod at Odessa the hapless' men were marched to barracks and ordered to go to the Polish front forthwith. Those protesting that they wished to see their families, from whom they had been separated for five years, were summarily shot. •