GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 187, 4 May 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press A6sociation-Copyrl&ht

A London message reports that Airs. Lloyd Georgo has been indisposed, but is improving.

Lieutenant Ferrari, who is competing in the Romo-Tokio flight, has reached Shanghai.

The Western Australian revenue, returns show l.iiat Hie gross.deficit is now ■£4,032,243.

The Finnish Riksdag has passed a Bill giving the Aland Islands (in the Gulf of Bothnia) Home Rule. '

Ihe Queensland Government is establishing iron and steel works at Bowen at a cost of JJ3,000,000. :

It is announced in a message from Constantinople that the Turkish Peaco Delegation lias left for Paris.

Air. Justice Ewing has declined to conduct the Commission of Inquiry ordered by the New South Wales Government into the cases of the I.W.W. prisoners.

Anarchists at Turin threw a bomb at a procession. The police guards fired ou the aggressors, and two were killed and ninny wounded.

A message from Adelaide reports that the French sailing ship Notre Dame Davor has been run ashore at Wardane Island, for several wesks, after having been gutted by fire.

A message from Melbourne states that the annual report on Papua shows decreases of. =£1738 in revenue, .£'43,352 in exports, and £>7,681 in imports. The decreases aro due to lack of shipping.

The navigation companies of Holland are forming an amalgamated company, with a capital of =£16,500,000. The new shipping combine will operate lines to Eastern Asia, India, Australasia, and Africa.

The New South Wales Public Service Board repprt shows, thatj the amount involved in giving effect to the Board of Trade's increased living wage ruling throughout the service is JJ585,000.

A Copenhagen message states that Mr. Larsen, a barrister, has been elected chairman, and Mr. Haxthausen, ex-Cbn-sul-General at Moscow, secretly of a committee for the resumption of trade with Russia.

Thousands of families in Chicago are conducting a "rout strike," and are refusing to vacate their apartments in accordance with orders to quit on May 1. The tenants have formed a league, and predict that ten thousand people will defy the landlords. '

A soldier and five men and women drove madly in an automobile along the Avenuo des Gobelins. Paris. They discharged revolvers and severely wounded a girl in the crowd. The automobile crashed into a trolley-post. The soldier and a woman were thrown out and killed instantaneously. ■ i. •

_ The Chinese Government will hold an international industrial exposition at Peking in March, 1922, for which a sum of three million dollars has been appropriated. The Government is planning to appoint a commission to consider the living conditions of the common people, with a view to effecting amelioration, thus forestalling Bolshevism. \ '