GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1920, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

I AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] EVACUATED. DELHI, October Iff. The first batch ’ of 1 the- women, rnd cihildfeii who 'are being evacuated from Mesopotamia have reached IndiaTJiey occupied 1 a hundred motor cars, and were escortedby an armoured car. They joined a railway at Shergat, an.j reached Bagdad. Two days later they ljparded a steamer at Kut for Bara, subsequently embarking for Bombay. T s he journey occupied three weeks. GREEK ROYALTIES. 1 PAlitS, October 20. It is officially announced ex-King Coiistantine’s (eldest son, George, is betrothed' ‘to the (Roumanian King's daughter, Elizabeth. It is reported tjie Queen of Roumania discussed tjie matter cjuring a tour of the western capitals, which she made accommpanied by Princess Ejizabeth, and encountered a number of objections, as Prince George is still exiled from Greece and | the States. M. Venizelos is hostile to his return, hut the Roumanian Crown prince Carol fought hard for a happy ending to liis sister’s love affair. ALL RACING STOPPED. LONDON, October 19. It is officially announced that all racing in England throughout the strike has been suspended. - CABLE BREVITIESLONDON, October 19. General Townsend lias announced his retirement from the Army. His resignation lias been accepted. ' The Dairy Show at. Islington has opened with magnificent exhibits in all classes of produce. It is the finest exhibition of its kind ever seen at this dairy show. Australia- and New Zealand are not represented, except by few entries in the competitive classes. ‘ The shareholders lia-ve accepted die English Government’s offer for the direct United States cable. It is understood that the Government has approved of a- proposal to firing the body of an unknown British soldier from France and to bury it with full honours' in Westminster Abbey. Miss’ Sylvia Pankhurst has been arrested on a charge of seditious uublications in the “Workers’ Dreadnought.” Lord Stradfirokc is the new Governor of Victoria. He has been gazetted Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George. ' Ther were 51 competitors at the Colonial Butter dairy show. In salted Singleton was first, Lismor c and Shannon (New Zealand) commended. Uniformed men took two Sinn Feiners brothers from their home in Tipperary and shot them dead in the pres ence of their.relatives.

EX-GERMAN SHIPS SOLD. LONDON, Oct. 19. Lord Inclicape has sold forty-eight ex-enemy ships, totalling 237,000 tons, for £4,786,975, GIOLITTFS NEW POLICY. ROME, Oct. 20. In addition to Malatesta, the Socialist leader, many anarchists have been rounded up and imprisoned in various parts of Italy. Signor Giolitti, the Premier, had a long conference with District Prefects It is understood tlie Premier intends now to go in‘for a drastic repression of extremists, and that he will resign if lie fails? 1 AUSTRIAN ELECTIONS. ' ' ’ VIENNA, October 19. Tlie Austrian elections result in he return of seventy-eight Christian Socialists, sixty-three Social Democrats, and thirty-four pan-Germans, while the Communists were practically routed.