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Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 4 February 1920, Page 3

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NEWS IN BRIEF. Sydney, February 2. Owing to the shortage of sugar, none is available for making jam, and consequently there is a plethora of fruit. The City Council has licensed a large number of barrowmen to sell in the streets and enable people to buy cheaply fruit which otherwise would be destroyed. Berne, February 1. Ex-King Constantine, in a special interview with The Times,’' states that he anticipates a revolt in Greece, probably after the signature of the Peace Treaty, lie declared that the present regime was reactionary and was responsible for shooting 3000 persons. Manylsbldiers were compelled to carry their own coffins to the scene of I execution. All pro-Constantine officers j were deported to islands and left to < starve. Often they -were forced to cat J boiled grass. ? Loudon, February 1. | Austria and Hungary have concluded S a trade agreement covering the princi- I tpal economic activities. Tho leaders at .Vienna are convinced that a common fute, coupled with geographical and economic necessities, will ensure Aus-tro-Hungarian friendship. Tho Board of Trade has increased the space available for Australian apples to one million cases. Of this number 525,000 will be reserved for the Tasmanian output. The police round-ups on Saturday in Dublin, Clare, Limorick, Cork, and Tipperary resulted in the arrest of tixty-iive Sinn Feincrs, representing SO per cent of those -a bo were wanted. Sir lan Hamilton, in a letter to the newspapers, says that the name of the German General von Sanders appears on the black list. “I feel sure.” he writes, “that I speak for the troops who fought at the Dardanelles when I say that they do not wish him to be tried. He was a clean lighter, and played fair during our brief armistice. He never shelled our clearing stations e?r hospital?. I appeal to the generousminded public to see that von Sanders is left severely alone.” Geneva, February 2.

Prince Christopher of Greece, youngest brother of the ex-King of Greece, was married to Mrs William Leeds, an 'American millionairess, in the presence of all the Greek royalties excepting exKing Constantine and ex-Queen Sophie Paris, February 2. The aviator Poulet, who returned to Sfranee owing to the machine on which he began his flight to Australia being irreparable, will leave Marseilles on Monday for Rangoon, where a new machine awaits him. Poulet states that if his original machine had been specially built for the flight to Australia he would have beaten Sir Ross Smith. He How hopes to be in Australia in a few weeks. He-and his mechanic, Benoist. had n strange reception in Burma. Where the natives thought they were messengers from Buddha. They entered a pagoda one day, and natives loaded them with flowers.

Owing to the shortage of wheat. Cabinet has ' decided to resume the rationing of bread. Melbourne, February 2.

The annual Australian liability for war pensions - now amounts to 56,051,83”,

Copenhagen, February 2.

Bolshevik delegates at Dorpat have received advice that the Poles are abandoning their proposed campaign against Moscow and Petrograd. Socialist workers are demanding peace with Russia. .. t- 1 itcV? York, February 1.

The De Forest Fadio Company announces that it has carried oil wireless telephone conversations between New York and Chicago, a distance of 900 Julies, on a low-wave apparatus.