GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

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TURKISH TREATY SIGNED. PARIS, August 10. The Turkish Treaty has been signed

MR WILSON’S OPINION. PARIS, August 10. President Wilson informed Government that he considered the Bolshevik advance i n Poland is justified. OLYMPIC GAMES. '' ' ANTWERP, August 9. At the Olympic games, 1000 metres amateur cycling championship of the wqrld resulted:—Peeters (Holland), 1; /Johnson, (England), 2; Ryan, (England), 3. An exciting finish, won by q quarter of a, wheel. Time 64 2-6 secs. Halpin (Austrajja) was defeated in thp semi-fipal through his tyre bursting,

. A BYE.ELECTION, LONDON, August 10. Woodbridgo bye-electiop resulted. Sir A, Cburohman (Coalitionist) 9898, Hardens (Labour) —.,•••■ ■.>•••• 8/07 The election was due to the appointment of Peel as Governor of St. Helena.

CHINESE APPOINTMENTS. PEKIN, August 10.

A mandate has been issued appointing Chin Yun Peng, acting Premier and Wellingtonkoo as China’s representative on the League of Nations.

VILLA SURRENDERS. MEXICO CITY, August 10. General Villa, surrounded by a band j of faithful followers, surrendered to , Government. He said he capitulated , bqcaupe further fighting meant United , gtatps intprveptioji ip Mexico, LONDON, August 10. The Italian Government has invited Ramaciotti to address the principal Italian Chambers of Commerce on Australian resources and Industries. Raaciottd also attends a meeting of the Council of the British Chamber of. Commerce of Italya t Leghorn in October. t . WASHINGTON, Augusf lg. U.S. Railway Board awards increases amounting to thirty million dollars to seventy five thousand American Railway express workers, retroactive to May Ist. MONSOONAL FLOODS. DELHI, August 10. Abnprpial mon§oonal rains caused floods throughout the country, particularly severe in Bengal, where a nmn. bee of villages were swept away. At Jamshedpur, a thousand lmts in the native quarter wqre destrpypd arid niapy people qrq‘homeless. Lqrge areas of crops in various districts were destroyed The main streets of Calcutta were deeply flooded, traffic was suspended and heavy damage done to property. OBITUARY. / NEW YORK, August 11. Obituary—At New London, Connecting, jpmes Q’Npilj tl* H acjqr . CHINESE CABINET. PEKIN, August 10, General Chinquppeng has been reappointed acting Premier. The personnel of the remainder of the Cabinet is not vet announced. " y JAPS IN MEXICO. WASHINGTON, August 11. The State Department reports Jap„„.,w are acquiring large tracts of la.nd in Mexico, close by the Californian boundary, presumably as a provision acainst a contingency that they may he barred, from holding land in Calif«R»a,