CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15973, 15 November 1919, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. WASHINGTON, November 13. A message from Kingston (Jamaica) says that the Prohibition movement is threatening the rum industry. Candidates for the Legislature will be required to declare their stand on the issue. The Foreign Trade Council unanimously declared that trade with Germany and the rest of Europe should be immediately resumed. Loth as a measure of practical benefit to the United States and the world, and lest Bolshevism engulf the world. *■ The Secretary of Labour has called tbe coal owners and operators to a conference at Washington on the 30th to settle the dispute. JOHANNESBURG, November 13. At a meeting of returned soldiers ti was announced that a Beuchuanaland chief had offered to throw open 6000 acres of diamondiforons ground solely for the use of returned soldiers, SYDNEY, November 14. The lain is steadily spreading, but bas been little in the droughtstricken areas. , The Salvation Army self-denial effort realised <£64,000, which is easily a record for a year. LONDON, November 13. Mr Harmsworth stated that the numter of British prisoners, including members of overseas forces in Germany yet unaccounted for, was 12 officers and 591 men. The German authorities were assisting in tbe efforts to trace the prisoners (Renter.) The Horse of Lords rejected a clause which the House of Commons inserted in the Removal of Sex Disqualification Bill, enabling poereeses :n their own right to sit and vote in the House of Lords.