CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1578, 5 March 1919, Page 7

CONDENSED CABLE NEWS.

ITEMS FROM MANY QUARTERS.

Sir Albert Stanley (President of the Board of Trade) announced that tho control of paper will cease in April. The King's Prize will be revived at Bisley with the short Lee-Enfield rifle; It will be open to past and present service men of the Empire, and will probably be fired in two stages, tho ranges not exceeding 600 yards. It is officially stated at Borne that of 345,000 Italian prisoners in AustrM 83,241 died. Of 700,000 Austrian prisoners in Italy 6000 died. Over a dozen cables between England, Holland, America and Australia are broken or interrupted, says a London message. Mr A. H. Illingworth (Postmaster-General) has. appealed to the Government departments to curtail their messages. Signor Orlando (Italian Premier) in a speech in the Chamber said that Italy intended to remain faithful to the Pact of London, but would not renounce her claim to Fiume. An American flying boat, the largest ever built, is nearing completion in.the United States Navy aircraft factory. It will be capable of carrying 75 persona 2000 miles. A great scandal has been discovered in Copenhagen. Eabbi Schornstein, head of the Jewish congregation, mads an enormous fortune by exporting dental rubber to Austria. The Babbl was allowed to send food parcels an<J used this privilege to conceal his illicit «< traffic. He has been ordered to leave Denmark immediately. The delay in the return of the American troops is being criticised, says s i Washington message. Mr Newton D. Baker (Secretary of War) explained that the British Government withdrew ships in order to dispatch the Austral* asian and Canadian troops to their homes, in view of their long service. A Perth message records an instanc* of native vengeance. Two aboriginal youths stabbed to death and chopped off the head of another because hia brother had killed the father of one of the murderers. One of the assassins died in custody. The other jumped' overboard at sea and was drowned.

A Melbourne message states that Rear-Admiral Sir Lionel Halsey has declined the Federal Government's ,offer of a position on the Australian Naval Board. He -will not visit Australia. Addressing the conference of Stat* authorities at Washington, which it dealing with post-war problems, President Wilson said that for the first time in history international sympathy was developing. It was impossible to secure a world peace unless it , was thoroughly understood that the Pari* gatherings were meant to serve tho interests common to man' in evory Sir Joseph Ward is paying a brief visit to London. He will return to Paris on Sunday. In the course of aft interview he said that he believed that the peace conditions would be exacting. Everything was being done to speed up the work of the conference. He dla «" not believe that there was a likelihood of Great Britain's sea-power being limited or controlled by the League or General von Lettow-Vorbeck, on arriving at Berlin from East Africa "~—- had a remarkable public welcome at the Brandenburg Gate. The irowd jeered and hissed Allied officers in th» neighbourhood, and it was necessary to bar the doors of their hotel. The Buenos Ayres correspondent of the "New York Herald" reports that a general strike throughout the Argentine will be called on March 15 unless the port strike is settled.