GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 209, 29 May 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

» — 1 — ■ ByTelegripli--Prc6s Association-CopyriglK The Congress of Australian Universities has agreed to the Canadian pro; posal for the exchange of professors foi chert periods. ; The 'l'okio biuiks have met all do nuuids, public confidence has', been. re> stored, and the run 011 the banks liai ceased. ' According to a Heuler message fron: Madrid the Government is considering the socialisation of bread, in consequent of the bakers' strike. ; A message from Paris to tlio Loudoi "Times" states Hint a. cvelone in tin Oise district damaged railways, buildings, and crops, and nearly the villages o£ Fontaine awl Bonus' leau.

A Renter message from Bomboj states that the railway strikers rioict! and damaged rails and signals and waylaid trains. The military dispersed tlio strikers. Twelve thousand mun an out.

Enron' Hayashi, former Governor oi tlio province of Kwangtung, in South «rn Manchuria. has been appointed Am ; Iraisador to Great Britain, in succession to Viscount Chinda. . ,

President AVilson received Sir Aucto land Geddes (British Ambassador), whe said that it was the unanimous wish and hope of the British peonies wherevci they may be that the relation of friendship with tho peoples of the United States would be strengthened and dfr veloped. '

The Chicago "Tribune's" Tokio correspondent states vhat the warehouses aro glutted with millions of dollars! worth of goods. Japanese importers refuse tn acc<?pt the due trade depreciation. The same conditions prevail af Osaka, Kobe, Nagasaka, and Yokohama. '

A .Renter message from Brussels !•&■ norts_ Hint the Foreign Minister, explaining Hie rupture of negotiations with Holland. stated (hat sinco-1839 Hollajid had (leinamM sovereignty over the W ielingen Ch'anvel, commanding the ■approaches to Zcebrugge, which- was thd maritime base of Belgium's defence. j

A London "Times" message states thai; the Confess of Co-operative Societies shelved the question of affiliating wit.li the Labour Tarty. The decision, is regarded as important, in view of the •anxiety of the advanced Labourites' to secure_ financial backinsr from the eoonerative societies as well as food supplies in the event of general strikes. !