MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16429, 24 January 1919, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

■ ■ •. (By Cable.—Presa Aeaoeiation.-7Copyriglit.) It is reported from London that; the Cotton Control Board haß arrived at a decision virtually ending control of the trade. The Secretary of the American eury announces that tho final Viptorf Loan of five or six billion dollars will be floated in April. The Paris correspondent of the "New York Times" says that the British Government will use small German merchantmen to transport Australian soldiers home via Suez. The Dutch newspnper, "Die Post,** says that moneys deposited by the Austrian and German Emperors in Dutch banks in 1914 aggregated £30,000,000. The paper.adds: "This was tho reason why Holland was riot invaded." The Russian Bolshevists have notified Switzerland that they will arrest and shoot ..thirty Swiss residents, pf Russia unless the Bolshevists, arrested in Switzerland for encouraging tho revolutionary movement are released.

Senator Jones, speaking in the American Senate, attacked President Wilson for his failure £o removo the restriction on the construction 'of steel ships on foreign account. Senator Jones declared that other countries were already securin gfcho world's trade, while the "United States was not allowed to competo. The Geneva correspondent of tho "New York Evening Telegraph" says that, according to a despatch from Lausanne, several German and Russian Holshevists, armed with passports to Paris, wero arrested because they plotted to compass the deathß of M. riomenceau. President Wilson, and Mr Lloyd George. At Donl, tho magistrates found that two of tho stowaways in a ship from Rotterdam were Russians. They wero ordered to he detained until they could bo returned to Rotterdam. The third stowaway was an Austrian officer, who recently escaped from internment in Holland. He will be interned in England. New Zealanders in London on furlough from Cologne declaro that the general air of prosperity at Cologne confirms tho soldiers' conviction that Germany was beaten in tho field. All tho big restaurants are open, with orchestras in attendance, equal to anything hoard in London. Food is plentiful and cheap. The New Zealandera find that tho Germans are deeply respectful. They rise and give tne soldiers their seats.