GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 304, 17 September 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

Br Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright It is reported from Warsaw tliat M. Paderewski is to bo tlio Polish Ambassador in London. .. A lieutor message from London states • that Sir James Allen will rc-presout New . Zealand at tho financial conference of tho ]>aguo of Nations. According to a statement by Sir Joseph : Cook hi tlio Federal House of Representatives, the Peace Loan is now oversubscribed to tho extent of .£157,000. K message from Tokio states that Mr. Sakue Takahashi, a former President of the Bureau of Legislation in Japan, and r. famous international law expert, is dead. Lord Doslwrough, President of tho British Empiro Chambers of Commerce, has arrived at Toronto. The Congress "ill • open tc-day and conclude on September 2-L ■ : Tho Canadian Government lias been asked to approvo of a contract between tho Mexican Government and tho Prince Rupert Dry Dock Company in regard to I the construction of 37 ships, mostly oil tankers. A message from Melbourne states that tho Nationalist Conference passed a resolution urging tho Government to make voting compulsory at both State and Federal elections. A message from Sydney states that complete returns of the voting 011 church • union from tho Congregational churches' show a majority ia favour of union. Tho Premier of Now South Wales has announced that Mr. A. G. F. James, • member for Goulburn in the Legislative Assembly, and formerly Minister of Education, has accepted a Supreme Court Judgeship. Tho Government's majority is now four. ■An amendment to tho New Guinea Bill was proposed in the Federal House of Representatives by Mr. Tudor, with tho object of applying to Now Guinea all tho laws of tho Commonwealth. It was defeated by 30 votes to 11. An unverified report from Hong Kong etites that anti-militarist forces under General Chang Ching Ming have captured Waichow, and are attempting to restore Caiiten as the seat of a Constitutional Government of China. Mt. John M'Cormack, who considered that the singing cf the National Anthem by a section of an audn-nce was a studied affront, has cancelled the remainder of his Australian recitals, and will sail for Europo early in October. A Sydney message states that the Colonial Sugar Company's steamer Fiona, which has been idle owing to the demand that tho number of firemen should be increased, is io resume work. The company has acceded to tho demand. ■ Mr. Theodore (Premier of Queensland) states that every Premier who _ visits England soon or Inter has to yield to a "certain pressure." It was necessary to moderate his policy or to balance his programme to woo the capitalistic interests. The French Foreign OfKee admits that. M. Deschanel is to resign this week. Ho is suffering from iieuvnethcnia. Tho London "Dailv Express's" Paris correspondent reports that Madame Deschanel s reluctanco to persuade her husband to resign was overcome 1)y the discovery that, he fell into a pond while wandering un- 1 attended in the Chateau grounds at Rambouillet. A gardener rescued him in an exhausted condition. A severe nervous attack followed.