IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16723, 5 January 1920, Page 7

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

* A London message says that a mysterious inflammation, -with so\'ero_intestinal inflammation, is puzzling tho doctors in tho Midland Counties. The victims collapse suddenly and.are prostrated for days. A message from Suva states that tho indentures of all the Indian immigrants in Fiji wore cancelled by the Government on Friday on tho advico of tho Council of Plantors. Reviewing tho greatest tactical crisis of the war, Marshal Foch, in an interview, said he believed that whilo tho decisions on tho Marno and elsewhere wore clcan-minded militarily, tho real inspiration of victory emanated from tho Divine "Will. _ One hundred Gorman ships, mostly interned in South America, and many excooding 10,000 tons, remain to he handed over to the Allies beyond the 250 already surrendered and provisionally distributed among tho shipping "Companies. This mstribntlon, and British shipbuilding activity, havo reestablished British shipping supremacy, which, at present, has o per cent, more tonnage than before tho war, although it is still short of requirements. TSo task allocated to the British of tho clearance of all moorod mines in Homo 'witsrs and the Mediterranean and Seas has been completed. Cercleared P° rt s havo also been . A Pal ? s message says the Seine has " spn nineteen inches in forty-eieht hours. Tho lower part of tho city is submerged. Pumps are working everywhere. and tho situation in the suburbs is cenous. A New York message states that Yisrount Jellicoo visited the Stock Ex-f-omn" 0 ' I T } "r a wcl- , • Lndy Jelhcoo has recovered from her recent i lness, and has left "'J O '" l,or hnsband. A Chicago message states that Sheriff I eters was convinced that the spectacle of seeing a man hanged would havo a deterrent effect on other criminals. He made arrangements for two hundred inn,^l CS i° „ C caol to witness through thmr coll windows the e*afn! Burrage, who had been convicted of murder. When Barrage j stood on the srnffold prior to the drop w?ZtT" riC -k ro^ rcd - do . They maintained tho uproar until the condemned man disappeared. Ihw ,n critics, assertSo p Xpon . m , rnt sought to bring e ° piiu'sh rriont before tho minds of men who wore over-coddled try well-meaning philanthropists. " ! r,l 10 raTl -was + v r '" den" in his pother's lytehon was told by the Rev. * * KGlly - T- rrir of St. Al-phego's • "*■ a tho Edmonton X - Cpmmittee. "One night," fn ? l ♦w ir, i. 1 . T, " tcd bouse7and found that the Lad s mother, a war widow, was ont. Jn the kitchen I tound fourteen lads, all urder 16 playing cards. As soon as me they disappeared through the win-