GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 227, 20 June 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Preus Asuociation— Copyright Airship R 36 carried forty members of the House of Commons, including several members of Cabinet, for a trip over the North Sea, covering 200 miles.

The Commonwealth Statistician reports a general decrease of 3 per cent, in the cost of food and groceries in May compared with April.

The Ormus, which was formerly the German liner Zeppelin, has inaugurated a series of Norwegian cruises preparatory to entering the Australian Orient service in November.

Messages from Gallipoli state that Wrangel’s army is exasperated at France’s withdrawal of all assistance, audlhreatens to exterminate the French forces, ..which are therefore being reinforced.

A London message states that official figures regarding the coat of living show a further fall of nine points. The cost is now 119 per cent, above the pre-war total, or a fall of 57 points since November.

A resolution submitted to the Federation of Labour Convention sitting at Denver asks Congress to protect America from the growing menade of Japanese immigration by absolute exclusion of all Japanese.

The Women’s Australian Labour Party passed a resolution that the leader of the Labour Party he asked to introduce next session in the State Parliament a Bill providing for the admission of women to Parliament.

Mr. M’Ewan-Huntcr, at the World Cotton Congress, said Australia could produce cotton of the desired quality. He anticipated the day when she would bo as fully represented at the world congress as America.

English newspapers adversely criticise Tie Board of Inland Revenue’s report recommending that the salaries of members of the House of Commons be regarded as expenses, and therefore exempt from income tax, . also recommending that the tax paid for the past three years be refunded.

Dr. Sun Y'at Sen, President of the South China Republic, has made a direct appeal to President Harding for immediate recognition, because the Chinese situation is most Critical. Tho existence and fate of the democracy there depends on tho American decision. The submission to Japan’s twenty-one demands is At stake.

A London message states that Victoria Monks, the actress, also Arthur Simonds, no occupation, were committed for trial on a charge of theft. The evidence showed that the owner inadvertently left a dressing-case in a taxi. The prosecution suggested that Monks and Simonds engaged the taxi, and appropriated the jewellery, a portion of which a London pawnbroker handed over to the police. Monks’s maid gave evidence as to pawning identified jewellery on behalf of her mistress.