GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 205, 25 May 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press AsGooiation-OopyricMi The Australian team of athletes for tiie j Olympic Games sailed by the Ascaniua for Antwerp oil Saturday. A .further batch of enemy subjects is : shortly to bo deported from Australia, ■ including Father Jerger aid Dr. flirslifield. | Greek troops routed 400 Turks occupy-. : ing a strong position in the Mossogida- j Pass, near the Mesnander River. There ; were many casualties. The Peace Exhibition in Adelaide has; j been closed after being in progress fifty, '! days, during which the attendances numbered 450,000. . , ; The liners Olympic and Aquitania have •' j been transformed into oil burners, thus reducing their crows by three hundred each, and correspondingly increasing the passenger epaco. It is reported from London that the, i Whitsuntide holidays revealed a strong. ' I movement to economise. . There were: ! many fewer visits to the kuside than; . were expected, despite the beautiful' j weather. ■ .; The illness of tho Mikado , has caused j the doctors to order him to rest froin-i -j his official duties for an indefinite period: j (states a message from Tokio). The. ! Crown Prince has already begun to repre- ■ sent the Mikado at State functions. A telegram from Marseilles icports a' ! serious fire in the liner Sardinia, loaded' with jute, Tho hold and the upper; deck were flooded. The passenegrs were 1 ; landed and the fire was extinguished . j after eight hours' work. i A Cairo message to the London ' "Times" states that the new Premier, j Tewfik Nessim Pasha, belongs to the; younger school, and is a brilliant lawyer, i of the highest character. He prosecuted- ; many political trials when pio-National- : ] ist feeling was at its highest. Tho Cabi-' net otherwise is mainly a reconstruction.: ; Harold Sturrock, formerly of Leipzig,,and a prisoner of war in Germany, writ- ' ing to friends in Maitlatid, New South I: Wales, says that famine prices are rulingin Germany. Suits cost J£lS to XIOO, : shirts 655., socks JE2, neckties £1 10s.' ; • Food is also abnormally dear. sells at 30s. a pound, and eggs at 2s.' . each. '■

A London "Times" message states that ! the Divorce Court granted a decree to' ! Lord Sholto Douglas on the ground of' j misconduct. Tho ease was undefended, i T. jP. Palmer, a London artist, was cited' ■'! as co-respondent. The parties were mar-' \ ried in California, under the name of : Montgomery in order to avoid publicity. I Lord Douglas in'his evidence said that ' -: tho marriage *was unhappy, owing to the' i intemperance of his wife, who-formerly I was an actress. ;