NEWS BY CABLE.

Otago Witness, Issue 3523, 20 September 1921, Page 36

NEWS BY CABLE.

BRITISH TRADE REVIVAL. The Daily Express states that a- trade revival m Great Britain lias commenced. A trickle of orders is now becoming a steady flow-. The tin plate works are regaining their trade, the iron and steel trade is promising, the Welsh exports of coal are steadily expanding, and many cotton mills have orders which will last for two years. There is likely to be a boom in motor cars. .V great stimulus to trade is the continued fall in the price of industrial coal. The time is ripe for a big push in industry. WEST LEWISHAM BY-ELECTION. The election to replace Major Sir E. F. Coates . (deceased) in West Lewisham resulted in the return of Slir Philip Dawson (Conservative), who polled 9427 votes. Air Windham (Anti-waste) received 8530 votes, and Air Ruffe ty (Liberal) 6211. [Aiajor Fir E. F. Coates (Co.-U.) was returned unopposed at tlie General Election.] MISS ROSIN A BECKMANN’S SUCCESS. The autumn concert season is in full swing. Aiiss Resina Buekmann has had a highly successful season. After assisting at Hereford in Dvorak's “Stabat Mater,” she i.s booked for Powell’s Celebrity Concerts in all the principal cities and Chappell’s concerts. She has accepted the principal part in the French opera “Ariane ct Bar be Bleue,” in the La Seals Theatre at Milan. Id will be the first production of the opera in Italy, though it is well known in Paris. ANARCHY IN JAPAN. Forty Radical Japanese and Korean Socialists have been arrested in connection with a seditious plot of a grave character, which the newspapers declare is the most serious- attempt to overthrow the Empire since the Anarchist movement against Mutsupito in 1900. The police assert that they seized dynamite bombs and inflammatory literature resembling Bolshevist am] Spartieist. pamphlets. A Korean throw two bombs at the Government Buildings at Seoul in an attempt to kill Baron Saito (GovernorGeneral), who had just returned from the country. No one was injured, although the bombs did considerable damage to property. The Korean escaped.

AEGITAXI ST A N AFF AIRS. The widespread epidemic of cholera in Afghanistan is reported to be abating. Djama Pasha and Suritz, the late sian Envoy at Kabul, have left the capital. Suritz has been replaced by Raskolnikov, a Czarist officer who- has joined the Bolshevists. The Afghan Government has ordered the recognition of the Bokharan Republic, and diplomatic relations have now been formed. The Russians are most anxious for a resumption of trade, but traders are shy in view of tiro uncertainty regarding payment for goods. EGYPT! A X UNREST. The Times’s correspondent has interviewed Zafhlul, who said he was prepared to rally to Ad!y Pa.dui should too latter obtain from the British Government an agreement providing for the complete independence of Egypt, as Zafhlui undersi ands that term. “Should liegoTim ions R h to arrive at such an agreement,” said Zafhlul, “it means that wo will fight-. Egypt will fight England in the same way as Ireland.” He declared that the country was sodidly behind him. GERMA X RE PAR ALIGNS. Ino Quai D Orsy (i'rs'fich Foreign office) announce* that the economic .-auctions in connection with the Rhineland, which were enforced in AXarch and should have been raised on the 15th, will be maintained, as ! ee (.ernian Government is not col.laborat mg in the examination of export and import lie: uses. GENERAL ITEMS, Air John Cat-heart Wason, an e.c-Naw Zealander, left estate valued at £22,527. The disabled steamer, Canadian Importer, was towed, into Victoria. The majority of the Australian cricketers are spending a holiday in the North ot England. There have been five deaths in connection with the explosion on the German subnut fine, Deutschland. Advices from Lyons, France, state that the Strasburg-Lyons express was derailed. Twent-five were killed and 60 injured. The Imperial Government is arranging to 'reopen the Glogau gold workings in Merionethshire, where formerly 400 men were employed'. The War Stores Disposal Board sold (he remaining stock of surplus textiles to a Glasgow syndicate for between £3,000 000 and £4.00-0.000. Preh : -■-■!• Goddard, Professor of Godo: v mil Zoology at Si ellenbosch Univeiviiv. South Africa, has been nominated to tiff the hot vacancy on the staff of the Quest. Expedition reserved for South Africa. Ihe manager of a London theatrical company arranged to convey the whole of his company by aeroplane to Manchester and play a flying matinee, returning to London in time for t-ho evening performa i ice. Ah Venizelos (the ex-Premier of Greece) was married in a London registry office to Miss Schilizzi, the daughter of a. wealthy Greek merchant. After the honeymoon Al. Venizelos will pay a six months’ visit to America. Tie will lecture on the League of Nations.

Over 60 people, while returning’ from a fete at Burnsinet, Spain, crowded into a boat which was intended to carry only 20 persons. The boat capsized, and 31 were drowned, the majority being women and children. -An increasing number of the British, collieries has been rendered idle in the Newcastle district owing to lack of foreign trade, the owners preferring 1 to stop work rather than incur heavier losses at still lower prices. 1 Demetrius Panagoulaos, who was arrested J^! c t . .V° ar for attempting to murder AT. \ enizelos, but who escaped, lias been rearrested in France. Ho was in possession oi ICO,OOO francs. lie is now feigning madness. Indubitable evidence that the Mad Mullah is really dead at last has been received, lie died and was buried in Abyssinia in February, after wandering alone destitute an< ! starving. He was deserted by his few followers, who sto'e his nroperty. His tomb was subseouently rifled. Jhe following New Zealanders passed the examination of the Institute of‘Actuaries:—R. W. La very, Wellington, part 1, section B; O. Gostelow, Wellington, part HI. section A. Both are in the New Zealand r riendly Society’s section of the civil service. Acting on a warning of an intended holdup, the New York railway officials placed acoard a train a force of police and hoops. hen two masked robbers appeared both were shot dead. At a coroner’s inquest on MTnerny, an Irish motor mechanic who was killed in an explosion at a Greenwich garage on July 20, exports gave evidence regarding the manufacture of incendiary bombs having i:! progress. Fifteen hundred ex ploded bombs were discovered. Tn the course of an interview with a representative of the Volkstein, the Government organ, General Smuts said he was glad that he was returning to South Africa, because as a Boer lie was thoroughly tired Lnglish customs, which mostly consisted of sports and dancing. A USTRALIAN NEWS. Musician jumped 7ft 10in at the Wangaratta Show. J bis is a new world’s record. Sir Joseph Cook announced that the “Digger’' £10,000,000 loan will be fully subscribed. The New South Wales Wheat Board has increased the price of flour by 10s per ton. It r is now quoted at £2O 17s 6d. The shipping freight on wheat has been increased by 5s per ton, and is now £3 10s. According to records on the seismograph at Rive rview, Sydney, an earthquake occurred in Fastern Java, which must have been attended by serious results. i he wheat areas throughout New South Wales 1 leiiefited considerably from a heavy rainstorm which spread over the State during the week-end. The Victorian Anglican Synod made a new departure under certain conditions, to limit the tenure of office of incumbents. The South Attftrlian Treasurer announced at the Agricultural Conference that the Government had decided to legislate to provide- for the annual registration of all bulls. The commission appointed by the Commonwealth i ecleral Government to report on the i ail way gauge problem submitted a report recommending a 4ft Sain gauge for the commonwealth. This will involve a cost of £40,000,000. Mr “Pussyfoot” Johnson has arrived at Adelaide in order to study prohibition prospects in Australia. He says that if the United States remains dry Great Britain will be dry by 1930. News has reached Sydney that the steamer Aorangi, formerly a New Zealand trader, which was- sunk in Holm Sound for war purposes, has been refloated and is doing duty as a hulk. Mr Bradfield, chief engineer of railway construction, lecturing in Sydney on the North Shore bridge, stated that the bridge would he opened in 1931. It would lie the heaviest piece of steel hr id no work in the world. Air Bradfield is leaving for America and England to complete contracts for the work. A decision is lik\ly to be sought as to whether tho provisions of the Commonwealth Navigation Act, which will deprive Tasmania of visits from overseas vessels, are illegal, inasmuch as they mean restraint of trade, particularly in regard to the export of apples. The Hon. J. G. Bice, Chief Secretary, South Australia, replying to a deputation of farmers who -desired a voluntary wheat pool, promised to place the request before Cabinet:; but he explained that if the Government was expected to finance it the Government would want control. The New South Wales Cabinet is to consider the position of Georgeson, who has been discharged by the Lunacy Court as being able to manage his own affairs, as a witness in the wheat pooling, following the decision of the court on Thursday. As the "Wheat Pool Commission is still open, Air Justice Bring may call Georgeson to give evidence, independent of action on the part of the Government. Air Af‘Williams, formerly the Country Party's leader in the House of Representatives, has arranged with Air Eva, manager of the Commonwealth Government line of steamers, for the latter to call at Hobart during the apple season, the call to be made monthly from the end of January, and 1,000,000 bushels of apples to be exported. Th e Crown Law Department- has abandoned the charges against John King and Edward Jenkins, who were arrested in connection with the murder of Frederic and Alice Sheard, an old couple, at Beacon.--field, Victoria. LORD JIiLLICOE. Sir Joseph Cook, referring to the suggestion that Lord Jelliooe may visit Australia. said he would be a- very welcome guest. Sir J. Cook hoped that, if Lord Jelliooe came. Air Massey would accompany him. T'lie Governor-General (Lord Forster) explained that ihe suggestion of Lord Jelliooe'* Australian visit probably emanated from an invitation he bad extended to Lord Jelliooe to sail his boat in Australian regattas. DISLOYALTY AT DARWIN. Air Boynton lias announced that drastic, steps are contemplated by the Federal Government to chock the revolutionary spirit manifested at Darwin, such as the refusal to pay taxes, the organised disturbance of public meetings, and the terrorism of witnesses and juries. The Government proposes to suspend trial by jury, except for capital offences, and to deport to other parts of Australia persons who will not pay their taxes.