GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 302, 15 September 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Tolograph—Preßa Association—Oopyriffhl A Tokio message states that according to Press estimates Japan will have 120 submarines in 1925.

Tho Governor-General of Australia was fnvowelled at a citizens' gathering in Svdney, and was to sail yesterday via Hofrart for England.

A London message states tihat a rumour that Viscount Milner,, Secretary of State for the Colonies, has resigned, is without foundation,

A cable message from Sydney states that the sloop (formerly mine-sweeper) Veronica, .which arrived there on August! 3, has sailed for New Zealand.

Moscow reports staite that Miss Sylvia Pankhurst has arrived in Petrograd en route to participate in tho third Internationale at Moscow.

Senator Milieu, Federal Minister of Repatriation, trill sail in the Orsova on September 29, to represent Australia at the Geneva Conference of tho League of Nations.

A Sydney message states that during the vis:t of the English cricket team the charges for admission to the ground will bo increased to 3s. for tHie grandstand and Is. Gtl. elsewhere, without tax.

It is relilably statedj a message from Melbourne announces, that tho Australian flagship Australia is to bo converted intb a training ship, and that tho light cruiser Melbourne will be made the flagship, chiefly for economio reasons.

A new mysterious religion, Omo Tykyo, has_ been recently -established in Japan. It is said to be an extreme form of Socialism, aiming at the destruction of the eiistinfr racial order. Members of tho cult are mostly retired and discontented military men.

Mr. Vf. M. Hughes has announced that tho Federal Government is erecting a. wireless plant in Victoria, with the object of carrying out tests to ascertain whether small wireless stations would be profitable undertakings as a means of .establishing communication with remote settlements in Australia.

Tt is reported from Tokio that tho depression in shipping business is so acute i'liat the Government has dispatched officials to TColjo and Osaka to investigate the situation and suggest remedies. Approximately eighty steamships aro idle in tho principal Japanee ports. A prominent shipping official said the storehouses were choked with goods, but nothing was being taken out, therefore tliero was no need for steamers.