HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16415, 8 January 1919, Page 9

HOME AND FOREIGN.

ißr CaV.e.—Press Aetociation.-^ Cop.msJit.) (Aaatrtlkn »nd N.Z. Cable Awosiition.) VON MACKKNSEN. COPENHAGEN, January G. ] General von Mackonsen lias teen re- , moved to Salonica. despite Ins protest . j PRESIDENT AVII.SON IN ITALY. NEW YORK. January G. j President AYiNon laid a wreath on the statue of Columbia. A driving rainstorm spoilo.l tho reception. iie.e>fhele" thou.-andi greeted him, an " ponclit to shake hands with ltim. I" a tneerh from the statue of Columbus. *Mr Wilrnn said: 'l?eiii~ f«». America desires to show how may also share in » world's freedom. nniTAIN AND PF.IISIA. 'F'c.'eivod .1 :inn;;i'v 7th. f'.3o p. 111.) NEW YOKK. Jallu arr G. A Washington correspondent says that the British Government lias informed the Persian Government that Great Britain will denounce ihc AnploK'i*-' an 1917 agreement of l*'l 7 regarding Persia ■whenever a recognised Russian Govern- . ment takes similar action. Tl EPATH lATED. (Received Jannarv 7th, 0.35 p.m.) LONDON. January G. Cares ''cook) and Jones (seaman), of the Matunga, hare reached London from Germany. AN ADMIRALTY GRANT. (Received Jannarv 7th. 10.10 p.m.) LONDON, January 6. The Admiralty lias awarded the officers and craw of the Great "Western Railway Company's steamer I hex £500 for sinking a submarine in the Channel. CHINA AND JAPAN. (Australian and N.£. Cable Association.) (Is«ut«r'o Telegrtmi.) (Received January 7th, 9.5 p.m.) PEKING, January 6. A newspaper demands that the Chinese-Japanese treaty of 1015, embodying twenty-one demands against China, should bo abrogated before the Peace Conference. TRANS-CONTINENTAL FLIGHT. (Australian uid X.Z. Cable Association.) (Received January Bth, 1.20 a.m.) "WASHINGTON, January 7. Four army airplanes from San Diego have arrived here, marking tlio first) trans-continental flight. Owing to repeated breakdowns the journey occupied a month.