CABLE NEWS CONDENSED

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13964, 3 May 1919, Page 5

CABLE NEWS CONDENSED

• The first meeting of the League of Nations will be held in Washington in the autumn, when Mr. Wilson, will bei'elected president. Sir Eric Drunomond'si salary as Secretary-General of the League •". of Nations will be £6000 a year, with a similar sum for expences. ■ Thirteen; ..neutrals have notified , their intention of being present at j the first meeting, of the League of ! Nations. I Th« progress of British ship- ! building in the first complete quarj ter of the year since the war is shown in Lloyd's register. At the «nd of March 2,254,845' tons wen, under construction in the United Kingdom. President Wilson wished to postpone the finishing oi the mandate until the League of Nations, met, but Mr. Maasey 'and General Smiuts strongly urged early finality. j It is announced' the rival claims of China and Japan to KaiaUi-Chau have been settled. It is stated that Japan has agreed to surrender the whole of the former German, concession to China in due course. Although it was generally feared that the settlement'of the question of Kaiau-Chau would be even move difficult than that of Fiume, Paris correspondents assert that there is no likelihood of Japan withdrawing from the Conference. \ The SJwiss President has arrived at Paris,, probably in connection '■ witb (the. maintenanoe >of Switzerland's neutrality. Im . the House of Commons, Mr. 'G. H. Roberts, MiniiSter for Food Control, announced that the increas- J ed cost'of food pc>mpa,red with July, •1914, for a workman's family wa,s 94 per cent, in April, 1917, 106 jper cent, in November, 133 per cent, in November, 1918, and 113 petcent, in April", 1919. An earthquake in San Salvador, capital of the.' republic of Salvador, the smallest but most thickly populated of the Central American Republics, brought down many biuild- , ings in all parts of the city. The first meeting of the International Labour Bureau, established by itbe Peace 'Conference, will be held in Washington in October. : An Ottawa, mesisage says- that a Bill forming a Canadiam Air Board has been iriti-oduced into the House of Commons. f *' : :•-' -Infer-nal ■'-■■ maohiinesi havei been found in the mails addx-essed to prominent people' throughout the United States, chiefly to opponents of I.W.W. propaganda! ■•• -The British';■' Government.'directed to Austra ; lia. i!:_durmig' "April over 30 steamers to lift Britain'si wheat. ,■ . The N.S.W. Government has appointed a oommittee to investigate : and .report .upon the claims for compensation owing, to loss of ta-ad© following the" influenza restrictions. ■' ;■'■'The dissatisfaction of the 200.New , Zealanders istfuuded t dlni Sydney is • increased by what is claimed to be I discriminatio'nj in alloivvning . isoldiers ; and workers to return, while they [ are debarred. They urge they ' should be allowed to proceed to New I Zealand :in the Atua, which d$ expected, to sail on Tuesday. The N.Z. crew won Jthe interAllied eight-oared boat race on the , Seine in thrilling fashion at the ] week-end, defeating- the Americans, ; who were mostly Harvard and Yale I men. The time was 9min 28® for the mile and three-quarters'. Plans are being formulated in London to feed over 1,000,000 children in the liberated areas of Cen- ■ tral and -Eastern Europe.