GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 29, 29 October 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegrw)h--Prc!a ABBOciation-Oopyritrlit The general strike at Bukarest has • bitokeJi down, lowing to the $overnment's effective counter-measures. Railways and other main public services were maintained. The arrested Italian Socialists attending the Syndical Congress at Bologne, ' which was arranging for reprisals for the arrest of Malatesta, have been re- : leased. The foreign delegates were deported. A message from Sydney announces that a writ lias been issued on behalf of Sister Ligouri claiming JESOOO- damages against Dr. Dwyer, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Wagga, on the ground of alleged malicious arrest. In the Federal House of Representatives the Quarantine "Bill ivas recommitted and amended, giving power to the Minister to waivo quarantine charges, if warranted, in the caso of vessels trad- ; ing to the coasb of New Zealand and the Islands. The Ladies' Swimming Association of New South Wales has definitely decided to invite two American lady champions to visit Sydney in January. It is proposed that they tour New Zealand for three weeks en routo to 'Sydney. In the House of Commons, Mr. Mingworth iPostmaster-General), replying to a question regarding the Government purchase of the direct United States cable, stated that telegrams et deferred rates, could be sent by that cable to ■ Australasia. In the New South Wales Legislative Assembly a Bill introduced by the Government with the object of breaking up large estates and promoting closer settlement is meeting witli the strongest criticism, and the progress of the measure is slow. Excluding tanks, the War Office has ;. distributed 108,958 war trophies, of which Hie Dominions and India had received . . U|HG9. Australia's share is 357 guns, 3751 machine-guns, and 400 trench mortars. New Zealand's Bhare is 129 guns, 1490 machine-guns, and 87 mortars.The situation, at Port Elizabeth' is now , quiet, strong mounted pati'ol9 in nil dirco-' turns keeping a linn hand on the natives. : ■The total casualties in the riots exceeded , 151). The Press emphasises that the nativn linrest is attributable to Bolshevik propaganda conducted, among them by the whites. M. Clemenceau, in declining an invitation by Mr. W. M. Hughes (Federal • Prime Minister) to extend his trip to Australia, said he hoped to visit Australia next year. M, Clemenceau is at present visiting the Dutch East Indies, lienoe Mr. Hughes's invitation to extend his visit to Australia.

Lord Forster's solicitors deny that he claimed .£79,000 from the London County Council for his Catford Estate. He was throughout willing to leave the niat- /, tor (10 an arbitrator _ for adjustment. The land was valued in 1911, under the Finance Act at 4:07,601, and paid undeveloped land duty on that valuation, so that .£79,000 was not an undue estimate.

A message from Constantinople to the London "Times" states that whilst in part of Armenia the populace -are refuging in the mountains, others thougTi surrounded J>y enemies and invaders. and deserted by the Versailles signatories,' have rallied, hit hack, routed the Turks, and recaptured Navoselim. The of tho southern towns have risen and expelled the Bolshevised Tartars, killing many,

A Reuter message from Vienna states that a leading scientist, at Oarg-ules, a meteorologist, has succumbed Islow starvation, his monthly pension of 430 kronen being insufficient to provide liira with needful maintenance Eis .pride and unconquerable spirit of independence prevented his acceptance of his friends' assistance. There are many similar cases in Austria of intellectuals starving owing to the depreciated value of the kronen.

A message from Washington states that it is learned at the British Embassy that the-decision regarding the appointment of a' Canadian Minster to Washington rested entirely wltß the Canadian Government, and the fact that no appointment. has been made was due to circumstances concerning the Canadian Government alone. This is understood to mean that a Minister may be appointed next year, although nothing definitehas been decided