HOME AND FOREIGN.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16421, 15 January 1919, Page 8

HOME AND FOREIGN.

1 AMERICAN POLITICS. (By Cable.—Press Araociation.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) WASHINGTON, January 13. The Attorney-General, Mr Thomas Watt Gregory, has resigned from the Cabinet. A BIG ESTATE. NEW YORK, January 10. Mr Herbert Lethbridgo, a co-execu-tor, has filed for probate the will of George Yuill, of Sydney, disposing of more than 2,000,000 dollars held on deposit by the Morgan Company. The money is divided amongst the servants and the daughters of the Countess of Portarlington. Mr Lethbridge has filed a claim for exemption from the transfer tax. IDLE WOMEN. LONDON, January 12. Thousands of discharged women munition workers are refusing to return to domestic service, laundries, and other occupations, preferring to remain idle on the Government's unemploy- • jnent allowance of 25s weekly. DESERTERS PUNISHED. PARIS, January 12. •'Lo Matin" states that Enver Pasha • and Djomal Pasha were sentenced _at Constantinople to degradation and ' imprisonment for desertion. LAUSANNE CONFERENCE. LONDON, January 11. 3fr Sexton has withdrawn from the Uansanne conference, making the fifth Labour member of the House of Comnjons to withdraw out of the six appointed. DESTROYERS IN A GALE. LONDON, Jrsuary 12. The Admiralty announces that bad weather separated the Austral in flotilla of destroyers after leaving Gibraltar. Two put into Ferrol, and two into Vitro, while the others Teached their destination. A BIG DIAMOND. (Received Jnnnnrv 14tb. 7.20 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, Januarr 13. ( A Kirnberley message states that a sensation "has been caused at the Jagersfontein mine by-the discovery of a mag- ] nificent blue and whit© diamond weighing 288 carats, wbich promises to rival eome of the finest stones yet unearthed. NEW BANKS. (Received January 14th. 7.20 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, January 13. Thirty-two private Norwegian banks have formed a limited company for the purpose of creating overseas banks. t REQUEST COMPLIED WITH.. (Received January 14th. 7.20 p.m.) COPENHAGEN, January 13. The French Government lias requested Danish banks to cease payments to Germany. The. stock exchange has stopped relations with German clients.