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Otaki Mail, Volume 26, 28 March 1919, Page 4

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Sydney, March 23, Cabinet has decided: to postpone the Royal Agricultural Show, owing to the increase in influenza. Races so far are unaffected. Masking in trams and trains will be compulsory from Friday. New York, March 25. The "New York Times" Geneva correspondent states von Hindcnburg, General I.uetv-'itz, Colonel Reinhardt, Ebert and Sclieidmann are conferring on the advisability of refusing to sign the preliminary peace terms. Sydney, March 26. In reference to the Union of Churches, the Methodist General Conference and Victorian Conference have already endorsed the scheme, which now goes before the congregations for final decision.

London, March 25. Fifteen German steamers have arrived in the Thames. A hundred arc due at Leith. They will bc used for food carrying. The Austrian fleet was handed over to Italy on Sunday. King Emmanuel was present. It was an impressive ceremony, as the warships arrived in single file, with no flags flying, and manned by Italian sailors. Venice was on fete. ~ • . Bishop" Frodsham, speaking at Gloucester, said/it was no-insult to say that" the Japanese would undersell, because of i lie conditions under which they lived. These were not likely to continue definitely, but Japanese economic competition to-day would wreck all the ideals of Australian workers regarding their homes, leisure and family life. Unrestricted immigration would destroy the new-born ideas of a "White Australia, v Brisbane, March 26. Returned soldiers .attacked the '‘Unify Standard" (Labour) Uo'vs-_ paper .office, calling on the paper to apologise to the soldiers for certain remarks it had published. .Several shots were tired and windows were.broken., but there were no casualties. A meeting of returned soldiers and sympathisers passed a resolution calling on the Government to deport the Bolsheviks and Senator Fcrricks, in default of which" steps would be taken'to remove them. The Cabinet lias closed all the hotels in the city until further notice. Helsingfors, March 25.

John Pollock, a British journalist; who was condemned to death at Petrograd, has escaped with documentary evidence that the Bolsheviks iiad spent large sums in the autumn of 191 S, sending bombs preparatory to a Bolshevik uprising in India.