GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 31, 1 November 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Oopyright The election of Lord Rector of Edinburgh, University resulted:—Mr. Lloyd George, 1764; Professor Gilbert Murray, 50s. • • ~.

The Nobel medicine prizes for 1919-20 have been awarded to Dr. Jules Bordot, of Brussels, and Professor August Kroch, of Copenhagen, respectively.

Mr, Gullett, war correspondent, has been appointed by the Commonwealth Government Director of Immigration for Australia at a salary of ,£ISOO.

A London message states thnt the Admirals support a suggestion emanating from Portsmouth to bury an unknown Bailor in Westminster Abbey besitlo the oxkuown soldier.

The steamer Bellbuckle has arrived at N.ew York from Sydney, bringing 4000 specimens of Australian animals,- birds, and reptiles, consigned to the New York Zoological Park. .

General Rawlinson, on Tuesday, . will go to Amiens, and hand over the British flag belonging to the regiment which fought at the gates of the town. The flag will be deposited in the Cathedral.

The' Danish Premier declared in the Folketiiing (Parliament) that Denmark would respect German national lingual distinctions in Slesvig, and would do everything to enable the two nationalities to live peaceably.

It is reported from Tokio that the Yokohama Silk Exchange closed on October 27, when prices dropped below tho minimum fixed by the buying syndicate, composed of a group, of silk dealers, with the consent of Government officials. The exchange is consulting with the Government regarding the situation. The general depression in the silk industry is continuing.

Negotiations are proceeding in England on behalf of the promoters of the West Australian woollen mills to engage the service of a leading Yorkshire expert to visit Perth and report on the scheme. Sir. MaiGregor. Trade Commissioner, in addressing the Empire Producers' Organisation, said thnt as a Tesult of investigations in Yorkshire he was of the opinion that Australia would overcome the difficulties regarding machinery and labour for woollen manufactures.