GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 18, 16 October 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Teleara.j>fi«Prei» Aesoeistton-OoDyrlgM Tho Scottish Liberal Federation, has passed a resolution in favour of a laty on wealth, in order to reduce the burden of debt. Herr Sthamer, who has boen acting • as German Charge d'affaires in London, lws presented his credentials to the i lung as the first German Minister. Tho adjourned meeting 4 of sporting bodies in Sydney to consider the ama- ' teur status definition lapsed for want of a quorum. . ' Owing to the strike of municipal employees at Broken Hill, the New South Wales Government lias decided to tako control of the sanitary service there. A Reuter' messago from Tokio states that the War Office announces a discovery for utilising volcanic iron oxide sand in the manufacture of steel, thus making Japan independent in the event of emergency. Two Russians were arrested in the Gare ue Lyon, Paris, bearing H'uiiks with false bottoms containing seventy-two million roubles in bank notes, the importation of which is illegal becauso they are really worthless. 'In the Federal House of Representatives a Bill was, introduced to remedy the anomaly respecting foreign rates of ex- ' change, calculating the duties on tho bank rate of exchange as ruling in London, except in special cases. • Colonel Walker, of the War Service Humes Commission, giving evidenco before the Timber Inquiry in Sydney, said it was impossible to obtain timber supplies at reasonable rates owing to the operations of timber combines, which met monthly, and regulated the prices. Speaking at a farewell dinner at' Sydney prior to nis departure to-day for England, Barry the champion . 6culler, stated that he hoped in a lew years to return to Australia. Ho had a nephew who was an aspirant for sculling honours. It. would not be tho speaker's fault 'if ho did not have a go." A Chicago message states that sensn.tional charges are being investigated against a large number of prominent men, including Prohibition officers, who are said to bo involved in illicit liquor deals throughout the country, totalling three million dollars. Their activities are said to extend to New York, Cleveland, and other large cities. The United States Board of Commerce has prohibited the importation of sugar into Canada, and has fixed the maximum retail price of granulated sugar at 21 cents per pound, plus freight. The order ' will bo effective till the end of the year. The board points out that tho export ; embargo ordered recently to protect tho public resulted in an accumulation of j large supplies, forcing several Eastern : refineries to clcse down. Lieutenant-General Sir Hugh Trench- ; ard (Chief of the Air Statf), in an address to the Air Conference "in London, said that it was. obvious that an air foreo on a financial basis which peace time could afford could not create a re- ■ serve in personnel and maintain tho stock of material requisite for war. It must be dependent on civil development of commercial aviation, and co-operuto something akin to the Navy and the mercantile marine. The United States' Navy Department lias issued the confidential correspondence regarding the killing of Haiti natives. In 1919 Barnett, ex-Com-mandant of the United States Marine, reported that evidence at a court-martial showed that there had been indiscriminate killing of natives by American mar- .' ines for some time. .Stringent orders were issued to prevent a repetition of the abuses American newspapers are amazed that the report has been kept secret for so long.