GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 199, 18 May 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

'By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright .) General Booth Las arrived'iri'Sydney, I i and will leave there to tour New Zca- 1 land on Juno 3. , .:.;■.. ■:, ■ , '.' Jim Barnes, the professional golf cham- 1 pion of, America, has sailed for England' to participate in the British open cham-' pionship, tounlamcnt.at Deal. . •' .A Eeutor message from Calcutta states': '■'! that Ean«i, one of the competitors iai 1 the Rome to Tokio flight, washed, and' his machine was smashed. Eanza was : ■■' slightly injured. . i A; Washington message reports that the' ; Polish Minister will launch a campaign i J to float a fifty million dollar loan for the 1 ! Polish Government in the United States,! •; the proceeds of which will be utilised to' ', purchase machinery and raw material. ; ~A a «ssase from New York .'announces; ! rnat the .fiadjo Corporation of America, ■> nas purchased.a huge site for,the con-! ! struchon of a five-unit central radio eta-1 "■'! : tion .at .a cost of ten million /•dollars.' llie station will he able to communicate i with Buenos Aires, Franco, Scandinavia,' ' ! Germany, Poland, and Italy. • "■; «h message :from Cairo to the London' ! limes states that a tribe of JHetrralli J ' Arabs.attacked three Christian villages: , ' .in Tipper Galilee.because.'tliey had not; J paid-money demanded by the Arabs : : llie Arahs looted and burned thcdwel- 1 ; lings and churches and the monastery, * ■ ajnd .mercilessly slaughtered the villag-1 ! ers. The most favoured method of i ■ slaughter was to tie a coat over the head • • of the victim, drench it with petrol, and ,' ', set fire to ilv Nine woman were killed '• -i in one house. . ( ;

As a sequel to t-bie wild scenes in Svd- • ' ney on University cnminenioratiom d'av, i ' J tho Inspector-General of Tolico has -writ- i < ' ten to the secretary of the Undergradu- \ ■■ j ates Association.-stating that the conduct ~' of those who formed part of the procession i ! was such as to ■render-it-wholly impos-i ' sible for permission, for anv fuhire simi-1. 1 lnr procession to be granted bv thfe Lord, "! Mayor. He also stated that'he would, -".] take fine care that such unseemly.conduct- ' did riot happen again in the.Town Hall. ' " -'