GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 46, 18 November 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

Br Taleirarh—Vreii < noclittton—Copyright It is unofficially stated that the Federal .Basic Wagd Commission has fixed tho basic wago at £5 ss. a. week. A Reuter. message from Cape Town states that the prohibition of importation announced in an earlier message applies to wheat flour and wheat meal, but not to wheat. A London message states that three men held up the Pembroke Street branch of the National Bank and escaped with .£3OOO. A party of women from the Soldiers' Relatives' Association invaded a meeting of the Sydney City Council and sang the National- Anthem, as a protest against several Labour aldermen referring to war tropbies as "scrap iron." It is reported from Tokio that gangs of students nnd others,, in the presence of passive' military officers nnd police, broke up Salvation Army gatherings on Sunday in connection with, the Army's semi-jubilee. A United 1 Service message from.London states that old tennis halls have been found in. Westminster Hall. It is. believed that they belonged to Henry VIII, who was an ardent devotee of the game.

A Renter message from Tokio states that according, to reports from Kirin Chinese troops operating against bandits in tile district cast of tho Chinese Eastern Railway massacred the whole population of thren hundred in the village of Shitangkow, believing that they sympathised with the ••bandits.