MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16436, 1 February 1919, Page 9

MISCELLANEOUS CABLES

(By Cable. —Pree« Association.— Copyright.) The' Roumanian Legation in London has no news of the reported peasant rising.

President "Wilson sails for America in tho battleship New Mexico about February 12th, and returns to Pans about the end of March.

Tn urging naval expansions, Admiral Mayo *nys tho Peace Conference is developing into a sewing circle. Now is tho time the United States should build the greatest Navy.

Sir Edward Holden, speaking at a meeting in I/ondon, of the Joint City and Midland Bank, estimated the American, debt at £2,000,000,000, the British at over £6,000,000,000, and the German at over £8,000,000,000.

The Paris correspondent of tho "New York Evening Sun" states that Peru will submit her territorial claims against Cliilo to the Peace Conference, thus avoiding a possible war.

Sir Eric Geddes, addressing the Employers' Alliance in London, suggested that the unions should buy the national factories and run them. The Government would view the matter sympathetically.

The Russian authorities on the Manchurian frontier arrested six Chinese under suspicious circumstances. The Chinese, when searched, were found to possess 6,500,000 roubles, thought to be for Bolshevist propaganda.

A reliable forecast shows that the deaths in England and Wales in 1918 exceeded tho births. It was the worst year ever recorded. London's figures, which are complete, show that the oirths were 168 per 10,000, and the deaths 187 per 10,000.

It is reported from London that a mutiny occurred on the patrol vessel Kilbride. A leading seaman was acquitted, one seaman was sentenced to two years' hard labour, three others to twelve months' imprisonment, and three to ninety days' detention.

Mr F. I>. Roosevelt, Assistant-Socre-tary, United States Navy Department, interviewed hy the London "Daily Telefraph," stated that under America's uilding programme It was never intended to create a navy superior to thoi British.

Mr Arthur Henderson, interviewed af Zurich, said that any solution other than a League of Nations as a prelude to a No-War lie ague could prosper only as obstacles to world traffic were removed. Free exchange would reduce the cost of living over the whole world. The system of the open door should be aplplied "to the colonies.

A dispatch from Paris states that Mr Hurley has announced, that he is going to the United States to examine problem? in connexion with the American merchant marine. He said that the American people were determined to construct and maintain a merchant marine of sufficient size in order not to he dependent on other nations for shippine to carry on American foreign trade.