CABLE NEWS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16036, 29 January 1920, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. LONDON, January 27. The Board of Agriculture has proposed to the hop growers that they should establish voluntary control over the industry for ten years, as an alternative to the proposed extension of Government control for five years. LONDON, January 26. Advices from Nairobe state that on the 23rd a Somali platoon in Northern Jubuland mutinied and murdered their commander Lieutenant Dawson Smith. They then deserted and fled to Somaliland.

HALIFAX, January 27. The transport Powhattan has been docked. The crew are safe.

WASHINGTON, January 28. It is understood that the State Department has not yet definitely decided to recognise Armenia, but probably will do so if a stable Armenian Government is established. Mr Martens states that he has received word from Petrograd that Berkman, Gbldamn and the other deportees were received with acclaim. They will spend two weeks at Petrograd and then proceed to Moscow. MELBOURNE, January 29. The Federal Cabinet has proclaimed Anzao Day (April 25th) a national public holiday.

Advices have been received that the cargo steamer Marne, en route from Now York to Australia, caught fire and sank in the Panama Canal. She was full of ergo, including consignments for Auoklnd nd Wellington.