MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19848, 17 January 1920, Page 10

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Australian and N.Z, Cable Association. V LONDON, January 14. iho St do of Jodhpur has presented the Government with eight lakhs of rupees towards the expenses of the war. ; , PARIS, January 16. It is reported that M. Clemencean is , withdrawing his candidacy for the PreBgloncy. WASHINGTON, January 16 Banditcs attacked the town of Port Au Prince, Hayti. United States marines and the Haytian gendarmes defeated the assailants, both sides suffering losses _ NEW YORK, January 16. The death is announced at Chicago ■ 'of Reginald do Koven, opcartic composer, aetat fifty-nine. PARIS, January 14. .-n 'armed force of. Communist workers in \ lenna dissolved the Consultative Bourgeois Assembly, demandin'* the abolition of private property, tin’ dissolution of the Government and tbs socialisation of industry. The agita- , tion is mainly duo to the food famine* ROME, January 14. A Oaproni aeroplane, on the flight Tokyo, baa reached Atlalia (Asia 7 . NEIV TORN, .In mi an- 14. n. United Press message from Mexico City states that General Darra<*an Mexican Chief of Staff, denies the" report that the Japanese cruiser Yakumo landed arms at Manzanilla. Ho E ayg that tlio cruiser’s visit was one of courtesy. Senor Medina, Sub-Secro-tary for Foreign Affairs, denies the existence of a secret treaty between Japan and Mexico. A syndicate headed by the J. P. Morgan Company is financing a. loan to Belgium amounting to 25,000,000 dollars.