MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16428, 23 January 1919, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

+ At Sun Francisco 46 I.W.W. leaders were found guilty in the United States District Court of conspiracy against tho Government's war programme. It is reported from London that the Monarchist movement has spread to Lisbon, where Manoel has been proclaimed King. Mr A. J. Frasor, writing from Paris, states that the Supreme Council will supply relief to Europe under Viscount) Reading, who M investigating financial problems in connexion with the scheme. Tho reported sinking of the American freighter Lake Erio in the Bristol Channel is not confirmed. There was a collision with the Hazel Branch. The latter was practically uninjured. An egidomio of bubonic plague, typhus fever, and miasmic fwer is spreading in tho Argentine. Tho Government is taking steps to fight tho diseases. Mr J. W. Gerard, in a speech at New York, stated that tho fittest punishment for the Kaiser would not bo death; he should be escorted about the world and exhibited to the peoplo. M. Paderowski's appointment as Premier of Poland occasioned an extraordinary outburst of popular enthusiasm. His programme provides for- progressive social and industrial measures, and franc}, iso reform. The German Government is organising two armies under von Hindenburg, to meet- tho Polish invasion. General von Quost is in command in West Prussia, and General von Woyfsch in Silesia. Three foreigners found hiding in a Norwegian ship from Rotterdam were arrested at Deal. One is bolieved to be a German or Austrian officer, and the othors are Russians. They were unable to give a satisfactory account of themselves. Before the Committee of tho American Senate conducting tho German propaganda investigation, witnesses disclosed a plot to kill Mr Rockefeller. The bomb intended to have been used for tho purpose exploded prematurely, killing the plotters. There is renewed activity at present among foreign anarchists throughout the United States. Signor Marconi, interviewed by tho "Daily Chronicle," declared that ether waves' were eternal. Some of his messages. sent out a decade ago, were .still travelling starwards. Communication was probable, in the future, with other planets by moans of ether waves. Ho had often received strange signals which seemed to emanate from beyond the earth, possibly from the stars. Although summer has really come, keep Baxter's Lung Preserver on handy shelf, still. It is likely to be needed at any time. A sterling specific for coughs, colds, bore throats, and chest troubles. 2s 6d big bottle. 1