IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16724, 6 January 1920, Page 7

IMPERIAL AND FOREIGN ITEMS

♦ It is officially annotmcod from Peking that tho Jnp'ar.eso warships at Foochow will be withdrawn. Messages from Trieste state thai d'Annunzio's cashier has fled wit! £40,000. Tho Romo newspaper 'Idea Na, zionale" states that Italy is likely t< secure a mandate over Constantinople in exchange for Fiume. A Washington messago says the United States Shipping Board's output foi 1919 totalled G. 229.000 deadwoignt tons tho vessels numbering 1159. It is announced from Now York thai the American Red Crofa will spenc 15,000,000 dollars for tho relief of dis tress in Europo in 1920. A message from Ixindon states thr. Dr. G. Morrison, political adviser to th< President of tho Chinese Republic, i seriotislv ill, and is undergoing a thin operation. According to a Washington message the French Government has grantei permission for tho removal to th United States of the, bodies of 20,00 American soldiers buried in France out side the army zone. A message from Paris under date o Monday says tho Seine has now ceaso< rising in its upper valleys, but th< streets on the outskirts of Pans ar still submerged to a depth of two feet and l>oats are being usod for tho relie of the populace. A London message says tho remarl; able longevity records during 1919 hav raised a discussion on one of tho mor pleasant effects of the war. Doctor and insurance experts agree that ratior ing has rejuvenated thousands. I eliminated surplus fat, where compul sorv economy and high prices mean only a reduction in the quantity of fooci not" Accompanied by a decline in th nutritive Qualities. Last year aries in Great Britain included 284 cer tenarians and nonagenarians. Tho London "Evening Standard'' dis closes a German plot on the eve of th war to cripple Gibraltar, with a view t establishing a naval base. It recall that an aviation exhibition was arrange at. Malaga in the summer of 1914. i which Germany displayed great intcres' Manv aviators eiitere.i, ostensibly a competitors, but really in readiness t bomb Gibraltar, co-operating with th Italian and Austrian fleets, which wot exacted to qu : e!;!v dispose of tli French Fleet. If.lv's refusal upset tH plans, but, anyhow, the British lcarne of the German intentions at Malaga.