MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 30 January 1919, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

fAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION

CANADA DEPORTING ALLIES. OTTAWA, aJnuary 27. All interned enemy Aliens considered dangerous will be repatriated.

FUTURE OF CONSTANTINOPLE LONDON, January 27.

M. Marcel Hutin, in the “Echo do Paris” says: The British will police Constantinople on behalf of the Allies. Constantinople trill be internationalised and the Sußan " ill retire to Ivonish or Brousha.

GERMAN CRUELTIES. LONDON, January 27. A Spanish inquiry into cruelties a Langensalza shows that the Gemini

authorities admit a massacre that occurred was inexcusable, the German Guards showing a- singular lack of selfpossession.

VALUE OF WIRELESS. , ’ LONDON, January 27. Mr Godfrey Isa acs, interviewed, said that 4000 ships were equipped with p Marconi apparatus, compared with 150 before the war. Wireless greatly de creased submarine danger. There were 185 wireless operators drowned owing to vessels being torpedoed. Portable wireless machines on battlefields have saved tens of thousands of lives by giving commander vital information. A wireless telephone pas now fitted /to aeroplanes. Marconi has already telephoned 300 miles and soon would be able wirelessly, to telephone across the Atlantic. Marconi during the war developed a special wireless apparatus, by means of which it was possible to I follow the movements of enemy airships, aeroplanes and men of war, whenever they used their own wireless. MONARCHIST LEADER KILLED. LONDON, January 28. I A, Lisbon telegram states that Sen- I or Orculas a leader mi the Royalist I party in Portugal was killed at Moms I Santo. SOUTH WEST AFRICA. NEW YORK. January 27. The Now York “World's” Paris cor- I respondent says: It is thought Prcsi- I dent Wilson will assent to British an- I nexation of South West Africa, because there is no natural defensive I border between the German and Bri- I tish African colonies.

i BIG DROP IN FREIGHT. LONDON, January 28. i Tile Atlantic shipping freights have been reduced by two-thirds. The companies trading to Australia and New Zealand have decided to make a considerable reduction in the near future. A NEUTRAL KIEL CANAL. NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Hon. Mr. Egan, the United States Minister to Denmark, in a speech here, said that the neutralisation of Kiel Canal shon.lcUbe decided on at the Peace I Conference. He declared it would protect Denmark from the fear of Germany in future. “The safety of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway.” he said, “lies in a Scan-1 dinavian Confederacy, which will per-1 mit tho benevolent supervision of tho I Baltic Nations, and will provide an effective setoff against the German I propaganda which is still prevalent, in I the United States. MONTENEGRO, Jan. 27. The United Press interviewed King I Nicholas of Montenegro at Pars. He I said that the smaller nations should enjoy the same privilege of self-deter-mination as the larger nations. Serbia was attempting forcibly to annex Montenegro. “I am anxious,” he said “to I see Montenegro's future assured under I President Wilson’s principles, even if ' it results in my abdication. I. urged ’ the Montenegrins not to oppose the j Serbians, so as to avoid the further « shedding of blood.” I <

SOUTH AFRICAN INDEPENDENCE, CAPETOWN, Jan. 27. The Government lias refused passports to Generals Do Wet and Groebler, two of the eight delegates who were selected by the recent South African Nationalist Conference to proceed to England to ask the King to restore tin' independence of South African States. DOMINION WAR LOSSES. PARIS,' Jan. 28. The British Dominion Premiers gave the Supreme War Council detailed accounts of thi' war losses and great privations ’suffered by their countries, and the information given produced a deep impression, especially on AT. i lomoiicenu and' M. Pichon, the French representatives. WILSON VISITS BATTLEFIELDS. PARIS, Jan. 27. President Wilson is visiting Rheims, and the devastated villages along the Marne.

LABOUR CHAIRMAN’S VIEW. (Received This Day at 8.60 a.m.) LONDON. January 27. Mr Adamson interviewed, on his re-' election to I lie Chairmanship of the Parliamentary Labour Party, said the new Parliament will, from the beginning be much occupied with the serious problem of industrial unrest, which has Ihrcnfciiod our productive power. Sir Adamson defended the miners claim for a six- hour day owing to their dangerous occupation. He hoped the Government would enact it. FUB’ITIER BELFAST STRIKE. LONDON, January 28. The shipyard workers at Belfast are striking for a -M-liour week.