CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, 3 February 1922, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

RATHENAU APPOINTED FOREIGN

MINISTER

BERLIN, February 1. Rathenau has been appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs.

MILLIONS BOOMED TO DEATH IN RUSSIA.

DR, NANSEN/S APPEAL

LONDON,. February L. ■Dr Nansen,- addressing a meeting on* behalf of the Russian famine relief fundi, said, that death and famine menaced nineteen million of Russians, several millions of •whom must inevitably die. One of Europe’s greatest granaries would become a depopulated desert unless food, agricultural implements, seed and! com reached it within two 1 months. |

FORMER BAVARIAN

PREMIER

SENT TO GAOL. „

BERLIN, February 1

Merlir, 1 a former Prime Minister of Bavaria, was sentenced! to four months’* imprisonment for accepting'a bribe' and' obtaining; a professorship for his. friend Otto Schlesifiger, who was uneducated.

NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. ‘

"CHRISTIANIA, January 31. The National'Council of Norwegian Women -submitted a proposal endorsed by the President of the Storthing that the Nobel Peace Prize for ( 1922 be given to the International Council of Women.

PORTUGESE ELECTIONS

LISBON, January 31

The general election, though incomplete, gives a majority to the Demor crats and Monarchists, while tjje Republicans' are at the bottom. 61 the poll.. 1

VIOLEjSTT EARTHQUAKE IN CEN-

TRAL AMERICA

■SEISMOGRAPHS DISLOCATED' —■ "T

NEW YORK, January 31

Seismograph stations, throughout the country report records, of a violent earthquakej > believed to he in Southern. Mexico dr Central America. The disturbances were so . great-, that they dislocated the' recording instruments. i

Observers state that the shock was the most violent/ registered! for ten years. '

SLIGHT SHOCKS IN CALIFORNIA

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31. Two mild earthquake shocks were ■left in California. There was g slight shock in San Franciscq.'

( THE SHIPBUILDING Sl|uMF.

LONDON, January 31

The / mastern in tile shipbuilding trade have asked the men to assent to the off of the 26/6 flat irate Weekly bonus. They point out that 66 per cent, of the berths are idle, 16 per cent; are occupied by vessels on which work is stopped, . and the remaining 28 per cent, heldi vessels on which work is proceeding. ; Shipbuilders ini recent months have been endeavouring 'to book contracts without a penny 6f profit.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE H SPREADING.

LONjDON,.'January 31. A , joint conference will meet on Tuesday to consider foot and mouth disease, which in spreading with remarkable rapidity, particularly in Scotland. “Thirty-three counties'in England and Scotland are now subject to orders , prohibiting. cattle' movements. In a single week the infec-

tion has* .rUn . like wild-fire from

county to cpuuty. Its organ is unknown, though seine experts blame ' 1 Ireland. '

THE ROYAL WEDDING

LONDON,, January 31. Owing to the influenza epictemic ! f/te Lord Chamberlain announces that instead of evening dress ladies invited to the Royal wedding may wear mornin/t dress and hate. ’ A V - . p'CNDO'N, January °l. A young m *' ai fied couple named Harness were se. htenced to death at Glasgow for murder/ 11 !? a Jewish shop girl aged fourtequ fi/ r a P olul d a fe-w shillings. ’ husband’s brother gave Evidence tha couple were desperate' for mont/Y- They struck the girl, on the head P lit the, body in the washhouse. They asked him to assist to carry the .body into the Clyde. There - was a draih/atic scene whe.” 1 the pair were sentenced to be hanged. The brother and other witnesses fainted. The.husband was motionless, the wife sobbed! violently.

LOSS OF OVER EIGHT MILLIONS

LONDON, January 31. The iDiuilop Company’s report discloses a logs of £8,320,000 for the year, chiefly owing to depreciation of the prices of rubber and cotton. The Report states that £8,262,000

( of the loss; is due to the'.writing down of stocks and loss’ on raw material / used and sold. Further

losses are expected on forward con-

tracts, which the reserve Ifund of I .£2,767,000 will meet. The report 'dees not disclose the directors’ intentions. There is >no proposal for reorganisation of capital. It is believed that the directors want to defer action until a more .suitable time.