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(liy Electric Telegraph—Oopyrigut ) FALL IN STEAMERS. TOKIO, July 31. A feature of the economic depression in Japan is the weakness of tlie steamship charter market. About iiftoen large ocean going ships arc idle at Kobe and Osako. Fifty other vessels will soon be released from old charter contracts. The prices of ships have declined to 140 dollars per ton. WASHINGTON, July 31 The Department of Agriculture announced the June consumption of wool was 4G million pounds, which is seventeen million below the average monthly consumption for 1920, due to curtailment of textile manufacturing.
LONDON, August 1
A meeting at Cannon Street hotel attended by 164 persons, mostly youths and girls, founded a British Communistic Party, demanding the creation o! Soviets, Red Guards and a. world revolution.
POPE’S ATTITUDE. LONDON, August 1
Commenting on reports that the Pope regards with disfavour Dr Mannix's speeches, the “Sunday Express’’ understands the Vatican’s Irish pr,lieremains strict neutrality. Mr Balfour recently visited the Pope, with a view to securing intervention against Sinn Fein and asked if he would denounce 'the disturbances and create vacant Bishoprics himself. The Pope replied in the negative to both questions.
CHURCH STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. ROME, July 31. Lightning set lire to, and destroyed the ancient magnificent church of St John, containing most valuable paintings. „
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Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1920, Page 1
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216MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Hokitika Guardian, 3 August 1920, Page 1
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