GENERAL CABLED

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 225, 17 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLED

07Telegraph-Press ABsociatlon-Oopyrlcnl -\ The peace negotiations between the Russian and Finnish delegations have ! opened at Dorpat.

Mr. E. G. Theodore (Premier of Queensland) is inquiring at Manchestci'r regarding machinery for iron ivories.

lieut. Einckler flew to England from Rome. It is understood that ho abandoned his flight beyond Italy on account of the troubles in tho Hast.

A message from San Francisco an-, j nounees that Denipsoy, -rlie- boxer, has . been found not guilty of evading being j drafted into the army during the war. |

A number of men in a motor-car shot | and hilled District Inspector Wilson, of \ the Irish Constabulary, at Gorcy, j County Wexford. , . \ • |

A Tokio dispatch to Honolulu saya i that Japan intends to establish a mili-. I tary Government in Nikolaievsk, owing | to the activities of the Radicals. ;

Tho Town Council of Portsmouth haa decided to develop Langstou Harbour as, a Dominion chipping port, and will approach the Dominion Governments with a view to securing their co-operation.

It is reported from Copenhagen that a Siberian revolutionary tribunal sentenced four of Koltchak's Ministers to death, sis to servitude for life, and twelve to varying periods from five to ten years.

It is reported that Madame Metba's : <virelcss telephone concert at the Marconi station at Chelmsford was successfully ; heard in England and on the Continent. j Madame Melba sang in French and . \ Italian for the benefit of foreign listeaers. :;

Tho American Federation of labour Convention demanded by resolution tho j repeal of tho compulsory arbitration j clauses in the American Railway Act, condemned military training schools and j compulsory service, and asked for an .. amnesty 'for all political prisoners. .j

The Canada-West Indies Conference is crawing to a close. It is understood that tho tariff. agreement provides for three scales of preference, ranging from ii moderate reduction en certain articles to a free Hist for others, including some foodstuffs, by both parties. A substantial preference on sugar is probable.

The Ottawa correspondent of the ft ew ¥ork Times" says it is understood that the Canadian Government has ached MrJ W H. Taft to represent it on the Grand Trunk Arbitration Board to Merrmno the value of first, second, and, third prejj ference and common stocks in the Gir.nd Trunk Railway. It is said that the choice of Mr. Taft is for the purpose of assuring English stockholders that tna Canadian Government is anxious to secure the most impartial arbitrator.

The Washington correspondent of the "New York World" states that the British Government is asking Rome to dissuade Archbishop Mannix from visiting Ireland. The refusal of tho Prelate to 'stand when tho "Star-Spangled Banner' was played aboard tho Ventura at Honolulu caused'a protest to the State Department in Washington. Other,.Australians conformed with thp custom. At San Francisco Archbishop Mannix said ho believed the "Star-Spangled Banner' was an English anthem, because he thought ho heard Englishmen singing it j and he therefore declined to stand, there is a movement to have. Archbishop Mannix appointed to succeed Cardinal Logue as Primate of Ireland; .■ f