MISCELLANEOUS

Timaru Herald, Volume CVIII, Issue 16801, 4 April 1919, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS

SITUATION IN CAIRO. AugtrflV'iuJ &n<l N.JS- Cable Assn. CAIRO, April 2. Armed motors are patrolling the streets and soldiers are guarding strategical points. The situation is quieter in Cairo and elsewhere, except in northern Sharbia, where outrages and incendiarism contines. SERBIAN DYNASTY DEPOSED. LONDON, April 2. It is reported from A gram that the JCarageorgevitch dynasty lias been de i posed and a republic proclaimed at Delgrade, • A similar message, has been recevied from Rome. JAPAN AND CHINA. PEKIN, April 2. Japaii lias warned China that if she publishes secret agreements Japan will demand financial reparation for tany loss thereby occasioned. China has surrendered. STRIKES IN SPAIN. ""MADRID, April 2. There are general strikes in all the great towns. Tho most serious are at Barcelona, where, as traffic is suspended, forty-five bodies were not interred on Sunday owing to lack of transport. Syndicalism is so strong ithat the establishment of Soviets is feared. THE FRYATT CASE. BERLIN, April 3. A Military Court has opened an investigation into the Fryatt case. MISSION TO HUNGARY. PARIS, April 2. It is reported that General Smuts will be entrusted with a special civilian Mission io Budapest. GERMAN ATROCITIES. THE COMMISSION'S REPORT. LONDON, April 'J. The Government's Commission at Berlin has investigated the shooting of French ' prisoners at Mannheim after the armistice, and tho 1914 outI break of typhus at the "Wittenberg camp,' and decided against Germany in

the former caso and favourably to Gernjany 'in the latter. • A' /Washington report states that the camp was properly equipped with supplies, and that the British doctor's statements were based on hearsay and misunderstanding. The Commission exonerates ]Jr Aschenbach, who supervised the camp correctly until lie himself was caught by typhus.