VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1921, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS

CABLE NEWS,

| AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. j EARNS JAPANESE PRAISE. LONDON, April 9. The Japanese Ambassador, Baron Ilnyaslii, commenting on Mr Hughes’s recent speech in the .Federal House regarding the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, stated that such a clear expression of opinion would havo good results, and would he welcomed in Japan. While the Alliance lasted, Japan was bound to remain on friendly terms with all the Dominions. He was convinced that Australians eventually would realise that Japan entertained no aggressive designs towards her. RED RUSSIA. CONDITIONS IN MOSCOW. | "THE TIMES” SERVICE. I (Received This Day at 10 40 a.m.) I LONDON, April 10. The “Times” Helsingfors correspondent states Moscow is crumbling like Petrograd, under the misrule of the Bolsheviks. The workers are demanding free trade and a representative Government. The Menshevik Central Committee supports the workers and declares the .Soviet is self doomed by its incompetence, and its fall is a question of time. Factories are stopping owing to fuel shortage and locomotive factories are making cigarette lighters instead of engines. The railways are in a state of torpor. Wood Louses are demolished for fuel. Hunger is terrible and the shops and markets are closed. Illegal private trading is proceeding on a most extensive scale. Fabulous prices are made for bread of two thousand roubles per pound, butter eighteen thousanda, meat 4,500, sugar twenty thousand, hoots two thousand, suits 175 thousand. A storm is expected to hurst soon. INDIA’S MILLIONS. (Received Tin! Day at 1.5. p.m.) DELHI, April 9 The result of the census, gives M>e population of all India as 319 millions, an increase of four millions on the last census.' The insrease was diminished by the 1918 outbreak of influenza which destroyed seven millions, and also by i sporadic outbreaks of plague and cholera.