CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume V, Issue 1488, 19 November 1918, Page 3

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

ITEMS FROM MANY QUARTERS.! It is reported that Sir L. Chio/./.a Money has resigned his office as Parliamentary secretary to the Shipping Controller. One hundred and fifty thousand persons, including officials, civil and military representatives of Allied countries, participated in a procession of deliverance in honour 01 Alsace-Lorraine. it is announced that Britain is handing over to France half a million tons of new shipping. Tho Premier of Queensland declines to accede to Mr Hughes's request that the Agent-General should support him in tho protest that Australia was not consulted regarding the peace terms. Mr Ryan has advised the Agent-General that his Government hesitated, particularly at this juncture, to associate itself with Mr Hughes's condemnation of the Imperial Government in the absence of positive evidence that the Allied Governments did not deal fairly to protect the interests of the overseas Dominions. German newspapers state that the ex-Kaiser intends to ask permission to retire to Corfu, an island in the Mediterranean, separated from the coast of Albania by a narrow channel. The exKaiser gave up his sword to a Dutch general before ho was interned. The London "Sunday Times" understands regarding the ex-Kaiser's personal responsibility for war crimes that the King has intimated that his relationship to tho British Royal Family is a negligible matter. The "Frankfurter Zeitung" states that Admiral von Tirpitz fled to Switzerland when the revolution started. An enthusiastic reception was given nt Hull to the first party of released war prisoners, comprising thirteen hundred of the naval brigade captured at Antwerp. Crowded peace thanksgiving services •were held in all the London churches on Sunday. Special forms of service ami prayers wero used. The King and Queen received an ovation en route to the Guards' Church. The Press Bureau has published congratulatory messages to the King on tho termination of hostilities from all parts of the Empire, including New Zealand. Advices received at Amsterdam state that Turco-Tartar hordes invaded Baku after the departure of the British and massacred twonty thousand Armenians. In vi<?w of the War Office's decision to award a star and ribbon to all officers and men serving before December 31, 1915, the Australian Defence authorities are of opinion that there will be no Gallipoli star. The decoration as originally proposed would be an invidious distinction to Australians if not also awarded to the British 29th Division which participated at Gallipoli. King Albert will make a triumphant entry into Brussels on November 25. The Chambers will be reopened on November 26. Members of the Cabinet have resigned en bloc, and a new Cabinet will be appointed. ■Field-Marshal von Mackensen arrived at Debreczin, Hungary, with 2000 soldiers in motor-ears, en route to "Germany. The authorities disarmed them. Despite the armistice the Germans on November 12 blew up a number of wagons loaded with explosives at Asche-los-Bruxelles, in order to destroy the station and railway line. » Four were killed and 50 injured. Sir Robert Borden has arrived in Loudon, accompanied by several Ministers and high officials. The Adelaide tram strike is unsettled. The public is seriously inconvenienced, and business handicapped. The Irish Nationalist executive has decided to urge the Irish in Britain to voto for Labour at the elections. An influential meeting in London, convened by the Empire Union, demanded that tho Government insist on tho punishment of the ex-Kaiser and officers guilty of outrages. Lord NorthcHffe, in a letter, urges delay in relaxing the censorship on commercial cables. Otherwise Germany will flood the world with trade correspondence through neutral firms and forestall British traders. Germany is ready to push a most elaborate organisation of oversea commerce. Tho last German soldier has departed from Brussels after extraordinary scenes. German troops sold all their loot. Some established stalls in the streets and shouted: "Wars sold at ridiculous prices." j A meeting of the Danis'.. Society in Sydnoy carried a resolution in favour of the restoration of the Danish speaking provinces lost, in 1864. The steamer Cassapedia has sent n wireless message to Boston stating that the vessel was damaged by a hurricane off the coast of Newfoundland, but was not sunk as was at first reported. The Canadian Victory Loan of £100,000,000 has been oversubscribed. Mr Accermau, the "New York Times" correspondent at Omsk, says the bodies of five Grand Dukes-were found in a well at Alispavick. The Red Guards hurled them down, and then dropped grenados on the bodies. The bodies of 65 leading citizens who had been shot were found in an adjacent forest.