GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 231, 24 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright A Reuter message from London states that Princti Arthur of Connaught has been appointed Governor of South Africa. Bread cards will'be re-established in Franco in Octobor for the purpose of > reducing the imports of. foreign wheat. According to a Reuter message from Berne the Swiss Fedoral Council has j consented to the appointment of a Papal Nuncio at Berne. This is tho first, such appointment since, the. controversies of 1873-74, when, tho Nuncio . ■ Mermillob was. expelled. , ' I 'A message from' Shanghai states that owing to the drop in tho price of silver . ■ Chinese importers nro threatened with a ! loss' of. sixty million taels during the ; fiscal year. Fulfilment of contracts will i mean widespread bankruptcy. They appeal to Britain and America for exten- | sions. ; :; A crowd of 20,000 people at Tokio made a demonstration and condemned the Gov- . ; eminent for this recent massacre of the Japanese garrison, at \Nikolaievsk. Mem- j bers of the crowd Inter attempted to I reach, the residence of tho Premier. Mr. Hara.. in order to demand his resignation, but tho polico dispersed them. . ..! It is reported from Washington, that j representatives of several woolgrowers ' 1 and dealers' associations have asked for ■ ' ; immediate relief for the wool-producing ; Industry from tho Federal Reserve Board. They pointed out .that the sud- : . ; den drop in prices from CS cents to 2d j cents per pound, with few. buyers, ,j threatens heavy losses to the "producers. ; Diplomatic circles in Buenos Aires •; i consider that the Chilian purohase of ! three warships from Britain is an indi- j cation that the Tacna-Arica v dispute/ , .'! which is menacing the peace of Soutn. j America, will bo speedily settled. The j vessels will give Chile such a naval pre- ) dominance that it is believed that Peru ..! will, bo compelled to accede to Chile's '.] demands. ■ l '•',• Mr. Vf. E,.Hutcliison, in his presidential address at tfeo Labour Conference at "'.: Scarlwough, said the League of Nations .■■■;■, had been quietly strangled at birth by ■ -j tho victorious Powers, who wots continu- j ing a military alliance under the guise of. ; n Supreme Council. The best argument t •'. for British Labour support of Russia was j the fact that nil "capitalist Governments had shown a determination to overthrow. '■ tho Soviet. Mr. Hutchison demanded ilia ;| unconditional withdrawal of troops from • ; Ireland, and declared that the Empiro ,1 could not be hield together by force. • ', A Router message states that the . '.j police in New York have discovered '.j plots among coloured Bolsheviks, Vwho ;i under the name of the Ethiopian Order ; of tho Black. Star are conducting a socalled African Republic movement. They .' '.; held a mysterious midnight meeting,, . where alleged l prophets garbed in the • «j* cast-off robes of fraternal societies, with ■" '' much fancy ritual inculcated religious J fanaticism. A parade of members of '■'■'!} the Order on Sunday night culminated i in serious rioting, in which two 'white's ■'. j were killed. ' i