GENERAL CABLES
$ : ByTelograph-Prcss Association-Copyright j A Sydney message states that. Fanny ; Durac!:, one of tho chosen Olympio '] swimmers, has been operated on lor '.\ appendicitis. A Brisbane messago states that a rich" | discovery of itoh oro is reported at j Miva Siding, on tho Kingsray Line. i Samples havo tested as high as 73 per i cent. i It is announced from New York that j Princeto'i University will probably 6end 1 a track team to England this summer to A compote- against Oxford and Cambridgo -.' teams. -i A Berlin message reports that Captain ] Erhardt has resigned tho command of . 1 tho Naval Brigade, and is believed to ' have, fled, to Denmark owing to a war- • rant having beon issued for his arrest. j Tho Trieste newspaper "Vedetta" de-' i clnres that Serbia betrayed the Allies '' j by agreeing with Austria in February, . 19i5, to diminish her attacks, thus en- j abling Austria to transfer troops to the j Italian front. j T)w Canadian Parliament lias ap- ! proved an additional expenditure of .. ' j fifty million dollars for repatriation j work. Fifteen thousand ex-soldiers have been settled on the land, and 36,000 land . I loans havo been approved. The average , • amount of loan per. settler is 3700 dol- , i lars (at par, about .£750). j Evidence given before tho New South V i Wales Commodities Commission on be- ■'-."■■'} half of tho Detail .Grocers' Association declared that owing to the fixed prices and being in the. hands of wholesalers the retailers were compelled either to break the law or sell at a loss. It would bo only a matter of timo before the re- . v tailors were driven iiito bankruptcy. ■ , . The "Chicago Tribune's"- PaTis correspondent interviewed M. Millerand, who stated that tho .French Government formally and categorically denies tho trn*h of the German statements thatwhite women in \ the occupied regions were forced to 6ubmit to the attentions' of French black troops. There is not, he says, a single French black soldier. remainiag in the occupied region. Speaking at a welcome in Melbourne, j General Booth read a message from tho •King, congratulating the people of Australia and Now Zealand upon the' eplen- i did part they had played in the war, . j and hoping to hear of their continued ..--j straggle against sorrow, misery, and sin. ' i The message states: "I am deeply con- { vinoed that the strengthening of Chris- ;l tianity is tho trae hope for the main- :,| tenance and spread of our civilisation. i Without Christianity, our civilisation, j and all it embraces, must fail." \ i The Washington correspondent of tho ",-j "New York Times" states that Senator ■ ■ i Thomas declared that there was a contract between Levinstein's of Manches- • ter, ani Dupont's,' of America, which aimed at the creation of a world dye monopoly,, by which Dupont's would uso Levinstein's secret process in America and Levinstein's would use tie Dupont . \ processes in Europe. Levinstein's, how-ev-ar, recently sued Dupont's- for a breach of contract.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 193, 11 May 1920, Page 7
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