IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16722, 3 January 1920, Page 8

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

+ LORD .TKLLICOK S TOUR. (Bv —Prrus A««<vijvtion—Ccrprrii'nil (Australian and X.£. Cabl* Association 1 i WASHINGTON", ]>eceml>or 31. Lord .lollicoe has left Canada. He I will reach Washington on .I'anuary 3rd. He will stop at .Newport Xow?, and will visit tho naval war college. Lady .Tellicoe will sail for England from New York, and .Telfieoe will leave for ; Colon on .Tantiarv <ith. ! j UNITED STATES TRADIv WASIIIXGTON, Deromber 31. It is announced from Xew York that a foreign eommerro corporation, of which Mr J. P. Morgan js one of tiie originators, has heen formed, and mil engage in international trade. PRESIDENT WILSON. (Received Jnniinrv 2nd, 8.25 NEW YOIIK, December 31. The ''Evening Sun'' says that President Wilson has definitely decided not to I if- a candidate for a third Presidential term. AMERICAN OFFICER'S INDISCRETION". (Received Januarv i!nd, 8.2-3 p.m.) WASIIINGTON, December 31. Mr _Joscphus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy Department, discloses "that Ilcar-Adtniral Decker, who reftised a Naval Cross, on the ground that he was l>einp inadequately rewarded for lii« services in keeping Spain out of the war, was dismissed from his post, as American Naval Attache at Madrid, in consequence of the American Ambassador's representations. Mr Daniels alleges that Decker thought himself iho real Ambassador, and acted accordingly. ARAB REVOLT ENDED. LONDON. December 31. An official rejKirt, states that the A nibs who seized Deir <>1 Zar, in Mesopotamia, ore now dispersing, owing 1o want of food and lack of organisation, tsome tribes showed determined hostility to the invaders. Alhukcmal was occupied on December 21st, all being quiet. Tho British officials who were captured at Deir el Zar by the Arabs have been released, and have rejoined tho British force.