GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 265, 3 August 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Tolegraph-Prejß Aiaooiation-OopyriirM It is reported from London that the Union-Gold Storage is purchasing Eastmans, Limited. A Melbourne message states that 1500 confectionery trade employees aro idle owing to the sugar shortage. A company is constructing a pipe-lino from Havro to convoy two thousand tons of crude petroleum to Paris daily. All Atlantic liners voyaging eastward have been ordered not to call at Queenstown, but to proceed to Liverpool. Beaurepaire competed in the mile swimming championship in the Serpentine, but gave up owing to cramp.

The magnificent old church of St. John, at Rome, containing most vahiablo paintings, was set on tire by lightning and destroyed.

Mr. Lloyd George stated that the Government intended to erece a statue of the late Mr. Joseph Chamberlain at the Palace at 'Westminster at a »cat of £10,000.

A message from Noino, Alaska, states that Captain Amundsen is to start on his North Pole attempt in a few dara. Tho provisioning of the schooner Maud is nearly completed.

A meeting at the Cannon Streot Hotel, London, attended by 154 parsons—-mostly youths and girls—founded "Tho British Communistic Party," and demanded the creation of Soviets and Hed Guards, and a world revolution.

A pogrom commenced in the Jewish quarter of Budapest, and extended to other parts of tho city. Mobs searched UlO clubs and restaurants, and wounded many Jews. Several of tho most prominent were killed, including a lanKer and a barrister.

Japanese newspapers express indignation at the disorderly scenes in Parliament, which lws just adjourned, and demand the election of a body of a higher standard. Otherwise the cause of constitutional development in Japan is doomed.

It is reported fr<jm Buenos Aires that 200 million pounds of almcst unsaleable wool is available in the Argentine, owing to the cessation of the demand for coarse grades; and it is expected twit the quantity, will increase during the August shearing.

A Buenos Aires message states that a Government decreo has been published Allowing the Marconi Company to install and operate a high-powered wireless station exclusively for communication between Argentina and Great Britain.

A message from Washington states that the Comptroller of Currency, Mr. Williams, says the Federal reserve system is in a position to lend 2500 million dollars. Thus there _is no justi&catiop for the unrest prevailing in some business and financial quortere in the Unltod States.

Official deorees haver Tieen issued in Seoul creating provincial, municipal, and villago advisory councils for Korea. This is considered to be a preliminary step towards self-government. Several Koreans, carrying bombs, have been wrested and-charged witli intending to assassinate officials and destroy public buildings. . °

A feature of the economic depression in Japan, is the 'weakness of tho steamship charter market. About • fifteen larg9 ocean-going ships are idle at Kobe and Osaka, and fifty other vessels will soon be released from tlieir old charter contracts. The prices of ships have declined to 140 dollars por ton.

The United States Department of Agrii culture has announced that tho Juno consumption of wool was 4(! million pounds, which was 17 million pounds bolow the average monthly consumption in 1920. The reduction is due to the curtailment of textile manufacturing.

Tho "Daily Mail's" Paris correspondent says that, as a result nf the war, French -women outnumber tho men by two millions. Professor fiarnot is urging tho Government to take up a novel rtclwimo for attracting young men to France from Canada, California, nnd tho Argentine, Ho belioved that tho beauty of tho French girls, once seen, will suffice to guarantee marriage.

In connection with the American proposal that Americans should be given canal opportunities in the dm-looment of oilfields under the control of the Letfurue of Nations, the Washington correspondent of tho Now York "Times" says that inquiries at tho British Embassy brought an intimation that Britain would welcome an agroement vith tho United States, based oil principles similar to those embodied in the AngloFrench paot governing oil supplies.

Eugene Debs, the Socialist candidate for the Presidency of the United States, writes from prison nn open letter to his friends requesting them to ?top attempts to secure his freedom and concentrate on an effort to secure tho freedom of nil political prisoners. In addressing his New York comrades, he says ho wants no better fare than his prison comrades. As long ns they aro criminals his place is with them.