GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1920, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] AUSTRIA’S APPEAL. . ' v : 'VIENNA, Nov. 10. Austria lias applied for admission to the League of Nations. :' 1 . SILK DEALERS’ RESTRICTIONS , > TOKIO, Nov. 11. A national meeting of silk dealers decided to suspend production 1 until the Middle of February in order to maintain prices. : The exchange has closed-to forward sales. Yokohama wholesale exporters agreed not to handle sillv. JAPANESE OIL. . .WASHINGTON, Nov 10. • ■ Th o Department of Commerce learns, of a measure containing a proposition for a Government monopoly' of all oil produced in Japan in order to assure an adequate supply for the Japanese .Navy! it will be laid before the Diet when it' meets injanuary. Japanese oil production i's said to be diminishing ARCHIBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, ' LONDON, November 9. The “Evening News” says it is ru-, moured that the Archbishop of Canterbury is shortly retiring. The Bishops of Lichfield, Oxford, Birmingham, ‘and Norwich ate possible successors, but Arclibishop Donaldson, of Brisbane, is as likely a candidate as any.. EX-KING OF BAVARIA. | ' LONDON, November, 9. The death is announced, as Basic, of the ex-King of Bavaria. -j BOOKMAKER’S PILE LONDON! November 10. Mr Joseph Pickcrsgill, a well-known Leeds bookmaker*, with whom King Edward, and many Crowned Heads bettod, has left £746,469. He was formerly a butcher. WAR OFFICE REPORT. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) LONDON," Nov. 11. A War Office communique states in lower Euphrates a column from Samnwah carrying out punitive operations on both banks around Kliidr, met with a stubborn resistance from an insurgent band concealed in broken country. Our infantry assisted by aeroplanes forced tlio Arabs from the positions. The’ operations aro continuing. AUSTRIAN ASSEMBLY. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) VIENNA, Nov 11. The newly elected National Assembly held its first session. Weiswiivhner, a former burgomaster of Vienna, who is a Christian Socialist, was elected President. GREEK ELECTIONS. ' (Received Tills Day at '8 a.m.) ATHENS, Nov. 11. The electoral campaign is proceeding with energy, acrimony, knife thrusts and pistol shots terminating some meeting. The Opposition admits the probability of defeat. HYPNOTISM FILM. BERLIN, Sept. 24. 1 The film is being used in Germany ' for displays of hypnotism. A leading j German film company recently produced at a trade exhibition a series of pictures showing hypnotic experiments on hu- : man beings and animals, with explana- ! t o ry headings by two German scientists, 1