CABLES IN BRIEF.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1920, Page 5

CABLES IN BRIEF.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—CnnjTislit. London, March 4. The committee to inquire into the utilisation of the Admiralty dockyards for building mercantile vessels recommends the Admiralty to take up work on the basis of the prices charged by private yards. Mr. Chamberlain announced in the House of Commons that Britain's cash advances to the Allies since the armistice amounted to 16!)$ millions sterling, the greater part for war commitments. As a sequel to the railway strike in Fiance the General Confederation of Labor has begun an agitation for nationalisation of the railways.

An emergency meeting of the League of Nations has been convened in Paris next week to appoint a commission of investigation in Russia.

'Die Foreign Affairs Committee of the German National Assembly approved sending a commission to Russia to study the economical situation. The transport disputants in England have opened negotiations witli the Ministry of Labor. Mr. Godfrey Isaacs, managing director of the Marconi Company, hopes to be able in a year or so to establish 11 regular wireless telephone service between England and Australia. The. first big party under the overseas settlement scheme will proceed to New .South Wales by the Demosthenes. Malatesia, who recently returned! to Italy from a long exile in London, is leading a general strike of the tramways and factories at Milan. An anarchist mob, a thousand strong, attacked the Labor headquarters with the view of protesting against the T.aoor leaders' orders io return to work.

Tlje Norwegian Parliamentary Committee, by 15 votes to 11, recommended joining the League of Nations. It is reported that the Portuguese Government was defeated on a vote of no-corfid»nee respecting the strikes. The President has instructed Senhor Silva, Democratic leader, to 'form a Government.

The discovery of an American kidnapn'n<: ssn« is reported to the Me:;ien 11 Korean Office. Th" pran.? seeks to i-ntrap wealthy Americans over tiie border with the object of creatine; trouble between the two countries.