CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16032, 24 January 1920, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. PARIS, January 31. A serious Communist rising in Bessarabia has spread to Bucharest, causing strikes and disturbances. WASHINGTON, January 21. President Wilson has reappointed American members of the international high tribunal of arbitration at the Hague, whose terms had lapsed during the war. It is believed President Wilson intends utilising too tribunal as machinery for tie settlement of disputes coming up before the League of Nations. BERLIN, January 20. Owing to the increased price of silver the Government has withdrawn silver coins, for which they are paying notes six and a half times the face value of too coins. Herr Daunig, leader of the Radical wing of the Independents, was arrested on toe ground of leading the recent Reichstag rioting, the object of which ■was to break up the National Assembly *nd establish a dictatorship on the Russian model. ROME, January 21. _ A strike on the Italian railways is general. A few trains are running. Some have machine-guns mounted on too engines, Troqps are guarding stations. COPENHAGEN, January 20. In return for a loan of two hundred million florins promised by Holland, Germany proposes to give Holland preference in the purchase of foodstuffs and to supply ike* - with increased coal. LONDON, January 20. The Privy Council reserved judgment in the New Zealand case Tarbutt and others v. Nicholson and another. The first ballot on a fresh vote of toe moulders resulted in favour of resumption of work. Alter long delay by bad weather, lieutenant Parer arrived at Saint Raphael. Chari es Cowan, assistant secretary of the Zionist organisation in America, declares that the Peace Conference will shortly announce that England has been given a mandate over Palestine. The Ministry of Food has arranged to import 8000 tons of Russian butter, which is now coming via Kara Sea, in exchange for cotton piece goods. The value of the German mark has dropped to a pennyj