GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1920, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSI'BALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] SALE OF SUGAR. DELTEVREDIN, Ocb. 29. Owing to a debacle in the Overseas Company’s affairs, the sugar market is dull. Superior quality—October shipment —is quoted at 29 guilders f.o.b. ter parcel of 1361 b (equal to a littlo over fourpenco per pound). At this price business has been done. EMERGENCY POWERS BILL. LONDON, October 29. In the House of Lords, the Emergency Powers Bill was read a third time. A SUSPICIOUS RAID. LONDON, October 29. Two policemen at Botlnvell, a mining village in Scotland, surprised armed men, believed to be Sinn Feiners in an attempted raid for arms upon the Drill Hall of the Sixth Scottish Rifles. The men opened fire, wounding one policeriinn seriously. No arrests were made.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS LOND.ON, October 28. i Tlie decision to remov'e the lieadqtiarters of the League of Nations from ■ London to Geneva was carried into | effect to-day, when tho Secretariat departed in a special , train from Victoria station, 'en mite for Geneva. BRUSSELS, October 28. The Council of the League is making a further attempt to settle the Polish Lithuanian trouble. It is rehearing the representatives of both countries to-day. BONIN ISLANDS. DEFENCES STRENGTHENED. . TOKIO, Octob'er 28. The Minister of War states that there is no truth in the report that the new fortifications on the ‘Bonin Islands are due to any present necessity. The Government is merely carrying out plans delayed through lack of appropriations. Ho also denies the reports ipf a lack of harmony between the Chinese and Japanese troops operating on the Korean frontier.

THE GLORIOUS DEAD. A BRITISH TRIBUTE. / LONDON, Oct. 28. Elaborate precautions are being taken to prevent the identity or regiment of the soldier to be buried in the /Abbey becoming known. Only one graves’ officer will know the secret, which he will be pledged to carry to the grave. A number of bodies will be exhumed on various battlefields. They will all .be brought together. When alone the officer will remove every badge and identity disc from all the bodies, and make a. final choice. The chosen body will be conveyed to England, and the rest interred in a neighbouring war cemetery. PROPOSED GENER AL ELECTION (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 31. The -“Observer” recommends a general election early in the new year, with a view to dispelling the unrest, and mistrust threatening national unity It declares the growing restlessness outside of Parliament is inadequately represented within it. The temptation to follow dangerous advice and resort to ruinous expedients grows stronger, hence the Government’s authority is weak proportionately to the strength of its parliamentary majority. There is ample pretext for challenging its moral right to govern. The difficulties of administration, especially in the case of Ireland and Industrial policy have multiplied accordingly the trouble. It is not that the Government’s policy and programme- are in the main lines not representative of bye-elections, but it is suggested on the contrary that the real trouble is the majority is far overlargo, The Parliamentary opposition are smaller and narrower than the Opposition in the constituencies. While not removing unrest, the general elections can give its constitutional utterance, and is the only means of restoring reality to politics, dethroning cynic pessimists, and revolutionary. The “Observer” adds that Government would be stronger for the new mandate.

STATE OWNERSHIP FAILURE. PARIS, Oct. 31. Government is liquidating the state ownership of merchant vessels and has appointed a committee to sell, probably realising sixteen pounds sterling per ton. The question of nationalisation is regarded as a dead failure. The State operations were mainly due to the political atmosphere wherein they were conducted. . Many ships built in Japan and America during the war time are leaky. The operations of the State largely consisted in laying up State ships and chartering foreign to do the real work.

A NAVAL SUGGESTION. (Received This Day at 8 a.ra.) S. .. LONDON, Oct. 81. Admirals support a suggestion emanating from Portsmouth to bury an unknown sailor in the Abbey beside the unknown soldier. FREE TRADE WITH GERMANY LONDON, Oct. 30. Rt Hon Mr Asquith, speaking at Lei. cester, advocated tTie re-opening of trade relations with Germany. Ho urged that a world wild interchange of commodities was needed by Britain. It was the only way to keep the British forges, factories, and workshops in full employment. MELBOURNE, Oct 29. The Danish Premier, speaking in the Falketliing, declared that Denmark would respect German national and lingual distinctions in the newly acquired area of Slesuig. Denmark would do everything to enable the two nationalities to live peaceably.

REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS. LONDON, Oct. 28. Opinion in authoritative British circles concerning the action of the Government in waiving the right to attach German property in the United Kingdom, is that there is nothing in it inconsistent with perfect loyalty to the Treaty of Versailles, and it in nowise implies the revision or modification of the Treaty. The only effect of the renunciation will be to free international commerce from restrictions and tainties.THE RIGA TREATY. WARSAW, Oct. 28. Both the Poles and Soviet Russia have ratified the Peace Treaty signed at Riga.

BRITAIN AND GERMANY. LONDON, October 30. The Paris paper /‘Petit Parisian” states: The French note to the British Government protesting against Britain’s action as surrender of the right to confiscate the private property of Germans in terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The note firmly, yet courteously, contends that none of the Allies by acting individually, has the power to revise or modify the Peace Treaty or to disassociate itself from the clauses that affect the jA;llies, except it is done with the common consent of the others. PROHIBITION POOLING. LONDON, October 30. There will be a prohibition poll at Glasgow, Aberdeen, and Inverness on ITilesdajy. One “Pussyfoot,” who addressed forty meetings, in seventeen days, in Scotland of which five were riotous. He asserts that at least a third of the parishes voting on Tuesday will favour no license. The “drys” have spent about fifty thousand in election toxpenSes 1 , and have distributed twenty million leaflets, but the “wets” spent much more.

BIG SILK SLUMP. TOKIO, October 28. In Japan, the Yokohama Silk Exchange closed on the 27th. when the pifi'ees propped 1 Wow the minimum* fixed by th c big buying syndicates composed of a group of silk dealers, with the consent of the Government. The officials of the Exchange are consulting with tho Government regarding the situation. The general depression in the 'silk industry is continuing.