GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17733, 5 December 1919, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, Nov. 30. Eighty-five delegates, representing societies supporting the League of Nations, are expected at Brussels on the first of December. The gather- ■ ing has been convened principally at (the instance of Britain and France. The meeting is likely to have an important influence on the League's future. WASHINGTON, Nov. SO. The Department of Labour has announced that Emma Goldman will be deported, probably to Russia. Owing to the coal strike industry is paralysed throughout the middle < west States. The railways are curtailed to their utmost. There is bitter suffering by the poor in the cities. It is understood the United States has informed Brftain that the Lan-sing-Ishii agreement preserves the principles of equality, commercial and industrial opportunity in the Far East, despite Japan's contention that the agreement recognises the priority of Japan's economic and injdustrial rights in the Orient. The United States, therefore, contends that she cannot recognise Japan's reservation regarding South Manchuria, Eastern and Inner Mongolia j under the Chinese conditions. I PARIS, Dec. 3. | The newspapers' strike has ended, and the men are returning to work. They were given no concessions. BERLIN, Dec. 1. According to the newspaper Freiheit, the real reason for the withdrawal of the German delegates from Paris was not the prisoner question but a desire to postpone the enforcement of the Peace Treaty, the Government fearing a reactionary outburst when the Allies present the lists of those accused of war crimes.

COPENHAGEN, Dec. 1. The Daily Herald interviewed Litvinoff, who denied that Russia had relations with Germany. For economic reasons she would far prefer relations with Britain or America. The real reason for Allied intervention could be summed up in the word concessions to wasting Russian strength in endless war. He demanded a full investigation regarding the alleged atrocities. CAPETOWN, Dec. 1. South Africa, in their second innings, scored 210, Tancred making fifty, Nourse sixty-two, and Blackanburg fifty-three. Zuleh and Hards were unable to bat. SALONIKA, Dec. 1. A communique states that when the Greek forces on the 21st November were taking up the demarcation line in Asia Minor fixed by the Peace Conference severe fighting occurred. The Turkish casualties were 110 killed, besides the refysl chief Geuzel, and 190 wounded. BERNE, Dec. 1. To May, 1919, there were nearly 29,000 deserters in Switzerland, including seven thousand Germans, twelve thousand Italians, two thousand French and only twenty British. COPENHAGEN, STov. 30. Denmark is negotiating with Litvinoff for the exchange of Danes im- j prisoned in Russia for Russian sol-' diers at Jutland, and interned persons willing to be repatriated. BERLIN, Nov. 30. Britain begins to repatriate German prisoners of war in India in December. PERTH, Dec. 4. The Assembly decided in favour of increasing members' salaries. SYDNEY, Dec. 4. - The brewery employees in the city have struck, demanding better wages, and 150 men have been rendered idle. WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. ! The International Labour Cou- | ference chose Mr Albert Thomas, the | French Labour leader, as DirectorGeneral of the International Lab,- ---! our Office under the League of Najtions. The conference also adopted reports dealing with unemploy- ; ment, the abolition of private employment agencies, the establishment of Government employment bureaux, unemployment insurance, providing that the recruitng of labour in one country for work in another shall be permitted only on a basis of mutual agreement, the establishment of an eight-hour day and a forty-eight hour week, and the abolition of night-work for women.