GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 1, 27 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

I 4 By Telegraph—Prene ABsoolatton-OopyrlKht Riazanoff, Kanioneff's successor in Ui6 negotiations between Russia and Britain, has arrived in London. There are indications that the 6trik« among the cotton sipinners at Oldham (England) has begun to collapse. A Eeuter message from London states that tho British Government has decided to continue summer time, which should have lapsed on September 27. until October 25. The United States Army Department' will offer for sale by auction three million pounds of Government-owned low grade combing and carding wool for the carpet trade on October 11. A conference of the Scottish Labour Party unanimously passed a resolution demanding Mr, Winston Churchill's arrest and impeachment for his actions regarding Russia. It is announced that there will be no Becoham opera in London during tho coming winter and spring. Sir Thomas Beechain's association with Covent Harden has also been terminated. A Eeutor messago from London conveys nowo of a disastrous fire in tho Martynside aeroplane works at Woking. One hundred and twenty-seven 'planes are reported to havo been destroyed. An aeroplane, with Captain Stutt nn« Sergeant Daizell aboard, which was out oyer the Tasmau Sea searching for the missing schooner Amelia J, is also missing, and fears are entertained for the 6afetj of the airmen. A pilot and four passengers, of whom three were women, wen* killed through an aeroplane nose-diving and crashing at Hayes during a pleasure flight from a Northolm aerodrome. The fifth passenger, (a, littia girl, was badly injured. At Fremantle, Lord Forster, when discussing the English cricket team, said it was a good all-round side. The only possible weakness was in the bowling. Ho did not think a better team-could havo been selected.

The Australian Board of Cricket Control has decided to ask the various State associations whether they are prepared to consider the New Zealand Cricket Council's request in favour of arranging regular visits of State teams to tho Dominion. •

II is reported from Hobart that further wreckage found establishes the fact that the barquentine Southern Cross wa"s wrecked, possibly as the result of an explosion. The vessel was carrying a quantity of benzine, and it is surmised thut the firms; of distress signals may have ignited tho benzine. A search for survivors is in progress.

Russian jewels, including Imperial regalia, thus far smuggled into Britain, are valued at many millions of pounds Some experts estimate that twenty millions' worth of jewels have been 6old at far below their real value. Some of the largest diamonds have been split, including two from the crown, decreasing their value, but making their sale easier.

The Rubber Growers' Association (it is reported from London) circularised the producers of plantation rubber, urging a twenty-five per cent, reduction in output In order to check the accumulation of stocks and to stabilise the market. Indian tea-growers are taking similar action owing to the accumulation of stocks.

The Tokio correspondent of the New York "Sun" says it is understood that the Japanese Cabinet has docided to try to obtajr. the acceptance by Washington of a scheme to create an American-Jap-anese Board to consider tho California qwstior and to recommend to Washington and Tokio remedial legislation just to both races.

The Farm Bureau Federation of the Middle Western States (reports a New York message) has resolved to appoint a coicmitteo to deviso plans to handle growers' wool through a national agency, selling direct to the manufacturers. The agency's first tn.sk will be the marketing of more than thirty million pounds of woo] which the growers accumulated last wi.iter in the Middle West and in Texas.

General Birdwood is leaving London on October 7 for Belgium and Franco to inspect the- memorials at Polygon Wood and Sailly-le-Sec, and to inquire into tho management of military cemeteries. Exhumations and reburiais in Belgium average seventy a week, and there are approximately a similar nuinter in France. The lists of missing have already be;.'n reduced by several thousands.

Mr. Storey, Premier of Now South Wales, commenting on the Profiteering Bill, said the measure was based largely on the legislation already in existence in England, a,nd, to a .lesser extent, on that of New Zealand and America. Claise 05, empowering the president of a commission to publish information derived in the course of judicial inquiries, was adopted from tho New Zealand Board of Trade Act.

A report by the Auditor-General of New South Wales dealing with the totalisator 6ays that although the investments show a considerable increase, it is not so largo as it might havo been if the public had more confidence in the.working of the machine. The _ lack of confidence was due to ineffective staffs and want of accommodation and facilities for tho public to make their investments.

The authorities in England, feeling that Irish picketors might heckle the British Ambassador's wife, who is returning to Washington, on the llauretaiiia, arrangements were made to take her off on a Government cutter to avoid a orowd on the pier. Lady Geddes is returning from England with her children, who will be placed in Amorican schools. The British mission to Massachusetts to celebrate the Pilgrims' landing recently were subjected to considerable annoyance by women members of tho Friends of Irish freedom.

Mr. W. E. Johnson ('Tussyfoot") has arrived in England on his way to conduct a prohibition campaign in Scotland. In an interview, he said l : "If the British want prohibition they should have it, lam going to pump prohibition into the Scots as hard as I know how. There_ is much less illicit trafficking in drink in America than was expected. Only ten million gallons of whisky wero drunk last year. Labour is more contented. lam convinced that England, will go dry. Onethird of Europe is nearer national prohibition than Americi was ten years ago."