MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19816, 6 December 1919, Page 10

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

PARIS, December 5. It is nnd(*rstood that Germany is secretly making overtures to tho Allies to withhold extreme measures pending the _ dispatch of new negotiations to Paris. The Allies are considering the immediate re-application of the blockade. NEW YORK, December 6. The sterling exchange is 3.86jd015. ROME, December 3. The ex-Premier,_ Signor Orlando, a Government candidate, defeated the Socialist, Signor Lazzari, by 251 votes to 143 for the Presidency of the Chamber. PARIS, December 3. Two French scientists, M. Bloch and M. Abrahams, are using an e’cctrio apparatus emitting electric sparks five hundred exposures per second successfully took a film picture of the course of a revolver bullet.^ WASHINGTON, December 5. The State Department has announced that Jenkins has been released. PEKIN, December 2.' The landing of Japanese troops at Foochow caused; great excitement among the Chinese, who demand the recall of the Japanese Consul and ,a public apology. There is also a great deal of dissatisfaction at the action of the Japanese Consul at Tientsin, who demanded the removal of the chairman of. the Chines© Chamber of Commerce because of the boycott of the Japanese. . NEW YORK, December 5. - It is announced that American exports to Germany since the armistice amount to 62,420,093 dollars. WASHINGTON, December 5. Mr Adelson has forwarded to the Senate Mr Lansing’s report showing that 927 foreigners, exclusive of Americans, were killed in Mexico since the overthrow of Diaz. Oue-third of those killed were Chinese. - ; PARIS, December 5. Jugo-Slavia has signed the Bulgarian Treaty and the financial clauses of the Austrian Treaty.