LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14008, 12 March 1920, Page 3

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

(B? Elkotkio Pub Press Association - IRISH OUTRAGES/ (Aub. and N.Z. Cable Received March 12,- at 11.60. LONDON,' Maiy}ft ; t3|§® The juries- refused 1 to.return of murder at Uhe. Ryan uitd another slain returned open verdicts.: was attacked at Macrodmi~ aid:^io?iK t jOF*i§3 the road\\;uy in a critical state'.!* assailed two constables ui V®pWWUjO« and left one naked ; and 'other's 'hair* shot dangerously at: Dark, .stable Murphy was nt Limerick. 1 - AMERICA AND THE ,TR|lAT3fo%Vv|| (Aus. and N.Z. Cable v '"'f Received March 12, at 11/60 a.m. WASHINGTON, March* The Republican leaders hav« nss&itaa , to a. modification of Article X, p}ftc()ig' ( : ■\Vitli Congress noL only the power iof providing military and naval forced, but"; of reserving to Congress - the right of; declaring war. ■ •, * v FARM I.ABQRJJRS' WAGES. , (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Asgn.) : A;. Received March 12,.: at 0.10 p.m. V, LONDON, March 7. *l, The Agricultural-.AVageH' Board is in-;' creasing the miniiiium wage to 42s h weekly . for farm-workers -in England ; and Wales. s

TO KIDNAP BICLA KUN. : (Aus. and N.Z.' Cable Aspt?. \ Received„ March- 112.. at - 0.10 p.r.i VIENNA, March _7. A party of Hungarian 'officers drove 1 to Stockei'au hospital- and vainly <m-, deavored to kidnap Bela Klin. STORM IN ,AM ERICA. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ■ Received March 12, at.0.10 p.Mjj . NEW YORK, Munch 7. Simultaneously 'with a' blizzard in; New England and aloiig the North Atlantic coast, floods in New Jersey and , I'cnnsvlvania rendered many people homeless, and crippled Scores, r»C\ tories were destroyed and bridges are - down. The waters -arc now_ gradually subsiding". - ■ HINDENBUR'G AS PRESIDENT. (Aus. and Cahlp -Assn..) f Received March 12, at D.lO p.m. • V , BERLIN, March 7. There is a widespread movement in . favor of the nomination of Hindenburg as President of Germany. He is Willing to accept' nomination and is t»e most conspicuous figure in Cierinaiiy ; acceptable to all parties, except the Independent Socialists. It is asserted that even these, though opposed to militarism and the restoration or one Hohenzollerns. ■ support Hindenburg. but the Pan-Germans openly regard his election as an important step towards the restoration of the monarchy in some form. ' FIGHTING IN RUSSIA.

(Aus. and N.Z.- Cable AssiO Received March 12. at _ 0.10 . p.nu. ■ ' LONDON," March <• Helsingfors reports that; Skebeltsiri, commanding .the >Vhite Russian troops at Murnfbnsk,. approaching the Finnish frontier with a lar«'e force, after cutting his way through. the Bolshevik lines. CRISIS IN JAPAN.

Received March 12.'at 1.10 p.ni. TOKYO, March 7. The crisis is the longest-sustained popular .situation in the Japanese constitutional history. It is accompanied bv widely organised' •deniQnsti-ations, many attacks on official reffldeirora, ferocious personal The -it mier "pro'dfunces the agitations "ot representative of national opinion. ,1 - Government is stubbornly renting the ' elaborate efforts of innumerable soc e-'tie-s, composed''of studehts;.the.- middlu classes'; "arid professional agitators, '.he strike of Government steelmakersi in-, volves* heavy national loss. Thirty thou-, sand men are idle. There roucU sabotage and social unrest, rhe dissolution of the Diet terminated witlrdramatic suddenness many months of )»- tensive afeitatiou. Prenner Hara, amid an uproarious debate, challenged the validity of; the demand for:juniversal suffrage, aiid urjred the .submission' ot ■the question to the people's,,judgment. Then he flourished an. Imperial rescript ordering, the dissolution, WbJoh . P r J>duced the effect of a bomb shell. . It, wns tvpically Haraesque and an ix-amplc'-of ail adriot avoidance of po ice control of an extraordinary, scene, ! life exeiH-ment. outside the Dieib proved I that, the Government was- well prepared ipf. eventualities.

ARMENIAN bATHOLIOS SUFFER. , (Times Service,). ~ . * Received March 12,, at: 1.10 p.m. . . PARIS, March 7. . The Figaro is informed] by an Armenian bishop that, there are unly 50.000 survivors of 100,000 Armenian. Catholics. One- and, forty priests have' been- shot, .and fo-ui have died of want,'itnd exhaustion. TJio Bishop of Marasli has disappeared, tho Bishop of Diarbekir was buried alive,, the Bishop of Malakia was burned at' the stake-, and the Bishop of Maudm shot. EXCHANGE STILI7 IMPROVES. (Aus. and N.Z.i Cable Assn.) Received: March 12, at 2.2o_p.ni. NEW" YORK, March .11. There, has been a sharp recovery in the sterling exchange rate, wmcli is now 382>i cents. AMERICAN NAVAL SCANDAL. (A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.") Received March 12, at 2.20 .p.m. WASHINGTON, March 11. Admiral Sims stated that Britain .linked in August, 1917, for a smiadroii of American coal-burning warships, : but the Navy Department, did not. send the ships for several months. The Department's' '-'policy obviously l was ite owni safety first, and that of tho Allies;next. When the squadron was sent it was not homogeneous and was consequently of small value as a fighting unit.

FATE OF TURKEY. (Aii6. ancLN.Z-. Received' March 12, at 2.45 p.m. ■ ; WASHINGTON, MartjJi 11. Tiie State Department .lias refused. to admit American responsibility, for delay in the Turkish settlement, as-suggested in Lord Curzon's speech. It j® pointed out that, the Supreme Council has not .informed "the United. States-:of dor; cisions, nor asked the United States for its opinion. ' ..

AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received March 12, ,nt 10.10 <*i.m. PERTH, March 12. A fire destroyed the Marrinup timber 'mill. The damage is between £12,000 and £20,000. „ „ ,< BRISBANE, March 12. A meet)ng representative of the com- . mcrcii#,'. financial.- pastoral and manu- ■ factunng .-interests.' in t-ho State decided to send a delegate to London t<*, place beloro the ScVivlarj of State tor , the cnlomt'R the views of . the meeting re- t giirding the repuduvtory n.ataro of ~ recent legislation in -Queensland; . ■ ADELAIDE. March 12. A- fire ut Port-vPnie destroyed Dnl-,.. -retv and Company's liremises, W. R.; Cane and Conipuivy.'s huge storage shed, *, and PhulottV.furniture- emporium. ~