GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 204, 24 May 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

Bv Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrluM The British Houso of Commons last week adjourned 1 till June 1. Martial law has been proclaimed in, Madrid, following tho pillaging of bakeries and food stores by mobs. The _ Chinese Cabinet has deolined to enter into direct negotiation with Japan regarding the' Shantung Peninsula set' tiemcnt. 'A bread shortage is anticipated in Sydney. Millers? stocks of wheat will be exhausted 1 this week, and country stocks in. the' following week. Tho withholding of tho Imperial wheat is: suggested.. A ( message from Beunos Aires states It is understood that a decree will be issued • prohibiting the export of wheat from tho Argentine until the high domestic prices for flour and bread' do* clino. : ! Speaking in tho British House of Commons, Lord Robert Cecil complained that an opportunity of making tho League of Nations a reality wasilost in not referring tho Polish-Russian l dispute to the League. Sir Auckland Geddes, speaking at a National Citizens' Educational Conferenca in the United States, said that the war had shown that the success of a nation depended on tho nation' 9 schools, but one country could not copy tho forms of machinery for education of another. British education was general ratlier than vocational. Airship R 33 flew from Selby to Lon' don and back on Friday night as a trinJ for the American crew which will tnkif K._3B to America. They carried a Sop with "camel" aeroplano with motor? running at full speed and released it at a height of fifteen hundred feet to test tho potrot tank, which 1 was designed tp prevent fire after crashing. Tho expert mont was successful. '

King Alexander, of Greece, lias arrived in Paris. The French newspaper? publish news, hitherto secret, that tho King married a daughter of Colonel Manns, who was for long: attached to tho Royal household. ..The engagement dated from the time before Alexander was the Heir Apparent and .tho marriage tool' place after lie became King, but the Queen shortly after left Grceco to* Paris, where sho is now residing.