GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 November 1920, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTBALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] j GOLD STILL RISING. \ i J LONDON, November 5. / The official price of gold is £6 per ounce. The United States is taking the small quantity offered. . . >, ! (The last previous cabled quotation was £5 19s 2d per ounce on November Ist.)' ' A DUCAL DIVORCE. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) ' LONDON, Nov: ' The Duchess of Marlborough has been granted a divorce nisi. The Duke did 1 not obey the order for restitution of conjugal rights. FRANCE SUSPICIOUS. (Received This Day at 9.45 si.m.) LONDON, Nov 9. “The Morning Post’s” Paris correspondent states France is suspicious of Scandinavia’s proposed 'amendments to ■ the League Covenant, included in the j Geneva agenda, admitting former en- ! emy nations to membership of the Leai gue. Germany so far has not requested i admission. ,• ‘ FAMINE IN CHINA. ! | (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) j / PEKING, Nov 9. Figures compiled by the relief commission show a total of forty million are affected by the famine, twenty millions being in Chili province. Fifty per cent of the latter are threatened with starvation. ’ Three million inhabitants of South Tientsin region are living on roots and bark, drowning their children or selling them for a few coppers. Numerous wells in this area are blocked with children’s corpses and suicides. There is every reason to think that v China is faced with an appalling catastrophe of the first magnitude, exceeding the horror of the last flooding of the Yellow River, when ten millions lost their lives. ' The white element is doing all possible to alleviate the distress, but are practically, powerless against the supreme attitude of the Government and general Chinese view, which famine, Heaven’s visitation to clear the overcrowded land. IN MESOPOTAMIA. (Received This Day at 9.45-a.m.) LONDON, Nov 9. A Mesopotamia communique reports continued aerial activity in the Middle Euphrates against hostile gatherings, soulh-vtest of Kufa. The leader of the insurgent forces,, and majority of the sections of the most important tribes in this area have surrendered unconditionally. The Fifty-third brigade column established and wired the control post saround Kerbola. Tho town itself is quiet. The Upper Euphrates compasy sent to relieve the garrison at Hit has arrived. Telegraphic communication with Baghdad restored quiet. The Seventy-fifth Brigade column has reached Sharaban.