GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 276, 16 August 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telecraph—Prom ABsociatlon—Copyright Vessels which arrived at Sydney ye6terday reported rough weather in the Tubman Sea.. . A Sydney cablegram reports that the final deposit for the Felton-Barry sculling race lias been lodged. There have been four cases (ono fatal) of bubonic plague in the city of Paris. Precautions have been taken to prevent the disease spreading. Owing to a crisis in the Cornish tin mining industry,-thirty miners have soiled for New Zealand under a three years' engagement to a mining company here. The Russian, Zinovieff, addressing a congress of tlio Third Internationale at Moscow, declared that it had not any use for Socialist pacifists in its membership. The Canadian Agricultural Department estimates Canada's 1920 wheat crop at 362,338,000 bushels, the oats crop at 49ii,966,G00 bushels, and the barley crop at 63,438,000 bushels. His Majesty the King contemplates the erection of a memorial on Gnllipoli to the Lost Legion of Norfolk's, which mysteriously disappeared. A majority of the men worked on the Royal estates at Sandringham. A Budapest message states that the mobilisation of the Czecho-Slovakian troops has been greatly accelerated during the lust few days. Tliey are concentrating at various points on the Hungarian frontier. Leading London and provincial fruit and vegetable firms have amalgamated under the name of the Fruit and Produce Exchange, with a capital of .E1,123,000. They also propose to establish subsidiary companies in and Australia. It is reported from Winnipeg that more than 200 American manufacturers established branch factories in Canada, in 1919, including makei'6 of chemicals, motor-cars, toilet preparations, and metal wcod-working tools, The Australian Customs authorities announce that visitors to the Commonwealth are not allowed to land with prohibited feathers. A recent arrival was obliged to hand over osprey feathers to the value of .£IOO. It is announced from Rome that tlio Vatican has made no statement regarding Archbishop Mannix, but that the absenco of a statement must not be taken in the least as implying that there is no truth in the report that the Vatican does not consider Dr. Mannix blameworthy. Tho "Sunday Express" (London) states that a British syndicate, which includes shipowners and bankers, has bought out three German-Austrian-Hungarian companies, controlling 90 per cent, of shipping interests on the Danube, comprising several hundred steamers, barges, and tugs. Lord Burnham (proprietor of the London "Daily Telegraph"), in a speech at Toronto, advocated the exchange of newspaper editors between tht> United States and England. He. said that several British journals already approved of this principle, and the resolutions in favour of it had been passed. A plan for the exchange of editors between Australia, England, and Canada, he said, was likely to be carried out. Evidence regarding the deportation of the Soviet "Ambassador" Martens shows that the New York Customs seized 131 diamonds, addressed to "Comrade Martens, ex-Swedish Sailor," and that largo quantities of jewels, supposed to have been Royal property, have been transported during the last half-year by a regular Bolshevik courier service from Sweden to New York. Martens denied knowledge of or complicity in the mat l ter.

A big and enthusiastic demonstration in the Domain at Sydney yesterday carried resolutions protesting against the British Government's treatment of Archbiejhop Mannix. The protest was cabled to Mr. Lloyd George and the President of the Irish "Republic/" Demonstrations'on the same lines in Melbourne, Adelaide, and Hobart acted similarly.

The Paris newspaper "Lo Matin" publishes a lettter 6ont by the ex-Crown Prince of Germany to the ex-Kaiser in July, 1917, strongly urging peace. The Prince declared tlint the spirit of the German people was deplorable. "If pcace does not come before tho end of the year," ho wrote, "a revolution will bo imminent. It is no longer any question of victory, but of tho life of the Gorman people. Our dynasty is in danger. That is «, great misfortune, but it is nothing compared with the danger threatening Germany."