CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15970, 12 November 1919, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, November ,8. The Farmers’ National Council will confer with Labour organisations on November 21st to formulate a legislative reconstruction programme. TORONTO, November 8. It is announced that the Victory Loan has been over-subscribed. PARIS November 10. The first ratification of the Peace Treaty by the Central Powers has been received from Austria, which announces that the law providing for the union of Austria and Germany has been abolished. TO RIO, November 9. It is indicated that Japan’s leading hankers favour an unconditional consortium, while certain powerful business houses have joined the military circles, in their demands that Manchuria and outer Mongolia shall be excluded. The 40 .000-ton battleship Marato, said to be the largest in the world, will be launched on November 9th. It is ©quipped with 16-inch guns and will have a speed of 35 knots. She will carry several airplanes. TjONDON, November 10. A further record is reported in the price of silver, which is now 67 7-Bd. The shilling is now worth twelve and twenty-three forty-fourth pence. (Renter.) It is officially announced that the staffs of the Government departments have betu reduced by 8000 since September Ist, and new number 400,000.