GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 295, 7 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright

A message from Ecrno stales that tho Bwiss Social Democrats have declined to join tho Moscow International.

Tho schooner Louis Theriault, bound from Adelaido to Auckland, was towed into Sydney in a leaky condition.

Tho amount subscribed to the New South Wales Peace "Loan is eleven millions, Tho loan closed yesterday, but fourteen millions aro still required.

Sir Joseph Ccok and Senator Millcn have denied statements that the battlecruiser Australia is obsolete and about to go out of commission. The idea of 6crapping her was absurd, added Sir Joseph Cook.

Viscount Buxtctn, the Governor-Gen-eral of South Africa, and Lady Buxton have sailed for England. Tho Chief Justice is acting as Governor-General pending tho arrival of Prince Arthur of Connaught.

Negotiations are proceeding for the appointment of a a Mexican-American Commission to eettle the amounts owing to Americans whoso properly was destroyed in tho recent Mexican revolutions.

A message from Geneva 6tatcs that Oeuvray, tho Swiss, who was' arrested for sending: Mr. Lloyd George ft threatening telegram demanding M'Swiney's immediate release, pleaded that it was a bluff, and was discharged after, three days' detention.

Berlin newspapers report that tho Inter-Allied Commission has accepted tho resignations of three of tho British Controllers in Upper Silesia, tendered owing to the partiality displayed by tho French at Tarnowitz, Grosstehlitz, and Beuthou.

A. London "Times" message sratcs that the famous big "Ferris" wheel, near the Eiffel Tower, is to be demolished at tlio. end of tlio month, and the Steel mil be cut up into sections for reconstruction work' in the devastated areas. Jt will furnish eleven thousand tons of girders and a quantity of scrap.

A Reuter message from Tokio staten that Mr. R. Pnito, chief of the first section of the commercial bureau, was shot with a revolver by a Japanese when leaving the Foreign Office. The assailant, who surrendered to 'the police, accused Saito of delaying (he settlement of a claim he had against the Chinese Government