GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 287, 28 August 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph--Prei« Asßociation-Coryrlriit Women's suffrage has been foTa'ally proclaimed a part of the constitution of the United States. A Sydney cablegram reports that' Lieutenants Parer and M'lntosh have resumed Jheir flight to Alelbourne. Pelton and Barry, the scullers, report that they are in tho best of condition for tn-ijay's rac». There is' every ind'eatioffl of flue weather (states a Sydney message).

-It is reported in r Melbourne message tlwt the ft ret aerial Derby race, Serpentine to Melbourne, a distance of 116 miles, in which four 'plane* competed, was won by Lieutenant Trelaw.

STr. Prendergast, Leader of the Opposition ilii the Victorian Parliament. has launched a censure motion against tho Government for failure to adept, the report of the Fair jpiofits Cou.ii,:sfion,

Soviet newspapers report:' the continuance of devastating fires in many parts of Russia. Thousands of acres of forests have lieen destroyed and 500 houses have been burnt at Vologda, involving {!he death of 150 people,

Sir. Charles E. Hughes, who was the Republican candidate for the United States Presidency in I9IG following a conference wiJli' Mr. Harding, announced that if the latler is elected President, a Tribunal of Inti'iiiational Justice will be established.

S;r Thomas Slackonzie. is repru-cnling the New Zealand (j'wt-i nwic-nt unofficially at the Toronto Imperial Ctminerce He is also representing New Zealand at the Chambers of Commerce Congress officially. Sir Thomas will leave England on September 6.

According to an innouiiceinent made in New York, American coa! amounting to .15 million tons will lw exported to Hritain in yearlv instalments. nf seven million tons. The Colliery Investment Trust,; Limited, -is sofd tb' be the Brifish firm behind the deal.

Tho British Embassy in Washington has applied the term ."sheer, imiviti l -' gated nonsense", to a clurget by Peprescntativo Britten, of Illinois, that 87,500 dollars furnished by the Ambassador, Sir Auckland Gedfles', from the British Government, found m way into tho Democratic camna/fen cliest. ' Sir Auckland Gefldes will m.tlce a statement of denial later.