GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 17569, 13 May 1919, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

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LONDON, May 10. A "Victory Choir ot ten thousand voices will sing in Hyde Park on Empire I>ay, the n-ussed Guards' bunds participating;

Mr, if. Clynes, speaking in the House <if Commons, urged the retention of »»iu form of food control to protect the people against trusts and combines. Mr Hoiige ]>ieaded for txpt-diting tho shipmeuL of wheat from Australia and the Argentine, with a view of removHig^the burden of the bread subsidy. The Polfce Cornrnissioiu'r has gone w Paris to consult the Premier.

PARIS, May 6. General Stefanick, the (Jzecho-S'ov.-jk War Minister, was killed while flying nt Piesftiburg... He servrd with distinction in the Siberian anti-Bolshevik campaign.

MELBOURNE, May 12. The Shipping Controller has refused to jyant the demands of the Queeusland seamen.

LONDON, May 6. ; Hon. Major Guest states that it is impossible to prosecute men ivho joined the Casement Brigade while prisonera in Germany, and orders have been issued for their discharge from the army on the ground of misconduct. w