GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXIV, Issue 17737, 10 December 1919, Page 11

GENERAL CABLES.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Senator Lodge, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, states that no further action will be taken by Congress regarding the Mexican question, which is now before the President for his decision. ROME, Dec. 8. D'Annunzio denies absolutely his intention of making further attacks on Dalimitia. TOKIO, Dec. 8. More than 5000 German prisoners of war will shortly be repatriated. Prince Yikong, the present head of the Korean dynasty, is reported as missing. MELBOURNE. Dec. 9. Agents for oversea vessels state the stevedores for overseas steamers have adopted the "go-slow" policy owing to the fefusal of the owners to accept in its entirety the terms of the watersiders' award made in October. ! As a result of the shortage of copper banks are asking for children's, and are offering to pay above the value for all coppers so delivered. SYDNEY. Dec. 9. The Legislative Council carried the second reading of the Liquor Act i Amendment Bill. j The coopers at various breweries have joined the .strikers. Evidence has concluded at the wheat inquiry, except in the case of the Georgeson contract, which has been deferred owing to Georgeson's illness. TOKIO, Dec. G. Japanese Labour are 'protesting against the high cost of living, and have started a movement to secure a re-organisation of the Cabinet. M. I Hara called an official conference, at which it was decided a public market should be established in each j city of 50,000 inhabitants, and loans i should be advanced at low interestto those who wish to buld homes. It i was suggested that the tariffs of imported food should be removed. I