LATE CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14841, 19 February 1919, Page 6

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association) (Received Feb. 19, 2.5 p.m.) VANCOUVER. Feb. 18. Sailed : Dartford, for Wellington. LONDON, FeD. 18. Owing to the enormous unemployment compensation paid m Ireland through people abandoning work, amounting to half a million sterling to the end of January, the Government is restricting future payments to demobilised soldiers and workers m specified trades. It is reported that Germans are canveyinc; money and treasui*e to Switzerland by aeroplanes. The German version of the new conditions states that apart from the cessation of hostilities m Poland the old conditions ar© prolonged indefinitely, but are terminable by three days' notice. The last stipulation enables the Entente to present at three days' noice fresh conditions which the naval and military commission m Paris is now discussing. PARIS. Feb. 18. The Lebanon delegates seek an independent Syria under French protection with a democratic constitution, and no religious domination. '• It is reported that Serlva has offered to submit differences with Italy over Frame to arbitration. • (-{outer's Telearam.) LONDON", Feb. 18. Lord Jellicoe will probably arrive m New Zealand on August 18th. Ho avi'll leave about the first of October. • The Times' Dublin correspondent re-' ■ports t It is stated m well-informed quarters that the Cabinet has decided not to release Sinn Fein tiers. Tin's resulted m a crisis Avhich may involve the. resignation of Viscount Frenoh, who favors their release. I It is unofficially reported m Belfast that employers have asked the men to restart on a forty-seven hours basis, promising to concede a forty-four -hour (week when peace is signed. The police deny the report that they have issued iva-rrants for tho arrest of the strike leaders. mmkmammmmmmmmmm—m