GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 306, 20 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

9 By TolesraDh-Presß ABSoolftUon-OopyTlgi.4 A Melbourne message states that it is officially announced that fcrndo with Turkey will be permitted eubjeefctooertaia conditions. It is reported from Washington that the State Department has revealed that tlie wihdrawal of Americau military forces from Haiti and Sandomingo is bom? considered. 1 Tho French Government is making Tahiti a great fuel-oil station for Pacifio shipping, states a Sydney message. Three large oil-tanks are in course of construo | tion. i Advices from Helsingfore state that I 11. Raskolnikow has ordered tho execution of a hundred marines for mutiny and disobeying his mobilisation summons. > Order was thus re-established. s The United States Mint reports that } the gold production of the United States • .m 1919 (called 2i,91fi1G28 fine ounces'. t valued at 60,333,400 dollars. The silver , output was 56,682,415 ounces, valued at 63,633,652 dollars. A Tokio messago states that tho Chinese Government has decided to 6top tho payment of the Boxer indemnity to Russia, and as a result the diplomatic con- , sular officers of the former Russian Govi eminent throughout China will leave in I tho near future. i A Pan-Pacific 'Association of Japan, un--1 der the presidency of Prince Tokugaw'a, . President of tho House of Peers has j been organised for the purpose of working with the Pan-Pacific Union to bring the nations in the Pacific into closer touch and relationship. ' A Router message from Cairo states that the Legislative Assembly has a resolution accepting the principles of the Mjlner agreement as a suitable basis for a treaty which should be submitted to tho National Assembly, which will liavo tho right of acceptance or rejection. A mess»ge from New York states that approximately 400 million dollars' worth of German' and Austrian property seized [by alien enemies' property custodian was still being held, while 300 millions' worth had already been returned to the owners under the amendment of the - Trading with tho Enemy Act. 5 A London messago states that the . Immigration Department of Victoria . lias .dispatched eighty-three ex-service . men and thirteen civilians by the Berrir ma and sixty ex-service men and twelve . civilians by the Osterley. A large party, ] principally composed of ex-service men, b will sail on the Uripides oil September . 2:3. The Panhandle State, the firet Ameri--1 can. built, manned, and registered trans. , Atlantic liner sailing for Europe in a i generation, departed from New York on. r Friday, bound for Queenstown, Boulogne i and London. She will call at Queous- : town, despite the British Admiralty's l orders to tho vessel to omit the Irish - port. j A Tokio message states that the Japan--1 ese Government, in order to relieve the 3 silk industry, will make a loan to the 3 Silk Syndicate of fifty million yen (about . five millions sterling), 'with an addi- . tional fifteen million yen through the . Bank of Japan, with tire object, of maintaining the price of raw silk and controlling the exports. A Washington message. states that it is understood that the representatives of the United States at the International Conference' on Communications will endeavour to make arrangements sq that cable messages during peace time will bo free from control and consorship. It it pointed out that the greater amount of the news from South America to tho ' Uuited States-passes through British control, while all other ca,blo dispatches to the United States pass over French, British and Japanese lines, ana aie thus subjeet to supervision. A United Service message from Lon--1 don states that Mr. W. R. Dickenson, formerly managing director of the Nauru Phosphates Company, has been appointed, by tho Imperial Government, presiding member of the Nauru Commissibii. Mr. Ellis, tho New Zealand representative on tho commission, has arrived in London. Tho commission is arranging the preliminaries for taking over control of the operations. In tho course of a lecture concert in Sydney, Mr. Henri Vebr,ugghen, conductor of the New South Walea State Orchestra, declared that the, National Anthem should be taken seriously, like a religitous rite or a ceremony. During the war tho audiences paid all respoct to the Anthem, but they wore now becoming lax, and gathered up their belongings as. if it was simply a signal that the performance ma over. If this irreverence continued it would be better to cut out the Anthem.