GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 26 July 1920, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

< Australian A n.z. cable association] THE SHEARERS’ STRIKE. SYDNEY, July 25. The Graziers’ Association is organising shearing teams in the city for despatch to the country. A meeting of strikers decided, in addition to their former claims, to demand, their fares from the railway station to the sheds. TRANSFERRED TO A CRUISER. PERTH, July 25. It is unofficially stated that Father Jerger has been transferred to the cruiser Encounter, in order to avoid trouble , with the watersiders. WATERSIRER S ACT. SYDNEY, July 25. In acordance with the wharf labourers decision, all loading operations on the steamer Poona at Bowen, Queensland, have been suspended. CONDIGN PUNISHMENT. (Received this day, at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 25. Three partners in a Bradford manufacturing firm were sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, besides fines, for defrauding the Treasury of .£18,360 income tax on excess profits. the king’s Reception. (Received this day. at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 25. . The King at Buckingham Palace received the Bishops attending the Lambeth Conference. KIDNAPPED. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) PARIS, July 25. “Le Matin” says that Dorden, a Separatist was kidnapped opposite his residence at Wiesbaden, by three armed men and carried off in a motor car to an unknown destination in unoccupied Germany. SEVERE FIGHTING. ROME, July 25. Four thousand Albanians attempted to drive out the Italians from Valona, but were completely repulsed after eight hours fighting. Hundreds were killed by the artillery fire and bombs, and later seventy by the bayonet in a counter attack. «. PRICE REDUCTION BY COMPULSION. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, July 25. 'Plie Berliner Tageblatt states that owing to the high prices of food and clothing, the mob at Treves pillaged the shops and warehouses. The police were overpowered and appealed to the French troops to assist in restoring order. Arrangements are in progress to reduce the prices. OCCUPATION OF THRACE. , CONSTANTINOPLE, July 25. The occupation of Thrace is progressing successfully. The Greeks are march ing on Adrianopl®. AN OIL AGREEMENT. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received this day at 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, July 24. The Franco-British oil agreement provides that in Roumania the two Govern, ments will support the respective nations with a view to the acquisition of the former German oil interests and other concessions, all shares in the former being half French and half British. In Russia the two Governments support the respective nationals in acquiring concessions. In Mesopotamia, France is to receive twenty-five per cent of the Government output on the market rates, or 25 per cent, in shares in the private companies. The agreement also . provides for the construction of a pipe line to the railway for transportation of oil through the French sphere to the Med iterranean. In North Africa and other ' French colonies, France will give facilities to the Franco-British groups, Britain giving corresponding advantages in the British Crown colonies.

A FIRING INCIDENT. DELHI, July 24. In north-west Persia, a party of two hundred Fungal tribesmen fired on a British patrol mid-way between Resht and Manjil.

THE CHINESE SITUATION. , (Received this day at 9.20 a.m.) i PEKIN, July 24. Cliangslin’s troops are approaching Pekin. Two brigades have reached Nanyuan, where they took over the quqr ters of the Anfuite on the 15th. Thereason for the advance on Pekin is to secure the complete disarming of the frontier defences. ~