GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 189, 6 May 1920, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Asaoclation-Copyrleht A Sydney message reports that the Jloldsworthy Internment Camp has been closed. TJu! last internees have been released on parole. A London "Times" message states that (lie Appeal Court has decided that bonus shares distributed as dividends find untraceable as income are not subject to supertax. The Newcastle Council has decided to lake no action in connection with the proposal for the formation. <rf a new Northern State. The Victorian Government is issuing a proclamation limiting the profits on men's ready-made tweed clothing to 25 per cent,, and on women's to 29 per cent. On tho motion of tho Primw Alinister (Mr. W. M. Hughes), the Federal Howe of Representatives passed a vote expressing the thanks of the nation to tho Navy and tho Army for their maguificcnt services during tho far.

A Cape Town message states that a serious position has arisen in connection with the wheat shortage. The. price has advanced to 625. Cd. the sack of 2001b. Flour has jumped, and tho price of bread has been raised by 10 per cent.

Tho French Government has decided to prohibit the exportation of art objects and furniture produced before 1830, also works of painters, sculptors, and engravers who liavo been dead more than twenty years.

The Chinese throughout America will protest on May 9 against the Shantung demands. They will observe tho day as one of humiliation and inspiration. .Tuo Ming Tang is in New York on the National Leaguo organising movement.

Tho Now South Wales wheat hnrtest totals 4,206,030 bushels, which is 13,5HG,'2>>tl bushels less than tlwt of Inst year, and little more than one-third of the State's requirements for its own consumption and for seed.

Speaking in tho Federal House of Representatives, Sir Joseph Cook announced that the naval policy of Australia could not bo settled until the Imperial Conference is held in London next year, and dealt with Lord Jellicoe's proposals.

A Router message reports that Alfredo Solsedo committed suicide by leaping from the fourteenth floor of a building in New York. The police state that he was a confessed Socialist, one of several who last June plotted to bomb important personages and buildings.

It is reported from Tientsin that Chines financial circles aro bitterly disappointed at the failure to induce Mr. Thomas Lamont, the representative of an American group of bankers, to conclude a large loan, Mr. Lamont stipulates for foreign supervision, which is distasteful to Peking financiers.

The New South Wales Government has decided to raise immediately a local loan of two millions, for iive years, at 5J per cent., free of lx>th State and Federal income tax. Half the loan is to bo devoted to the relief of necessitous farm•ers, and half to the completion of the wheat silos scheme.

According to advices received at Washington from Tokio, Jajxwese trade is feeling tho full effects of the financial situation due to the bankers' refusal to mako further advances on cargoes. Yokohama shipping is already congested. Prices of commodities have declined sharply, and money i 3 extremely tight, despite a decline in banking rates.

' Protesting against the acquisition by the United States of Taboga (ten miles south of Panama), with the object of facilitating the American defence of the Canal, thousands of the populace of Panama demonstrated against General Pershing during the celebrations. Tho State ball was abandoned, and General Pershing was confined to his hotel, whilo mobs rioted in tho streets.

Two soldiers, while dynamiting fish in the Vcsle, near Rheims, alongside a shallow crossing which the troops used in tho 1918 retreat, exploded a quantity of sunken munitions, with the result that there was a" terrific detonation. The two soldiers were decapitated, and four cows in an adjacent field were killed and many beasts injured. Telegraph communication was destroyed.