MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16432, 28 January 1919, Page 8

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

» (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright-) The American Senate _ voted 100,000,000 dollars for relieving distress in Europe. A special train has arrived at Brussels from Germany with, gold valued at 740,000,000 francs, being specie stolen from Belgium during the war. Three Sinn ' Feiners, including McGrath,- a member of tne House *of Commons, escaped from an internment camp in. England. During the war period the British lost fifty-nine submarines from all causes, including thirty-nine due to enemy action. ' The Catholic clergy in Southern Hun* gary are petitioning the Hungarian Church Council to abolish celibacy and to readmit to "the priesthood those ecclesiastics who married during the war. At a meeting of yachtsmen in Lone don, Mr Mark, of Sydney, said that Australian yachtsmen were-anxious to compete in British races and would send a boat of the biggest class, or several smaller boats, when the new racing rule was adopted. It is reported that America will get all the Gennan Lloyd steamere during the armistice for the repatriation of troops. Britain will secure a number of German passenger steamers to convey the Australians homewards.