GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1920, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

I AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION N.Z. LAND COMPANY. LONDON,* November 15. Tlie New Zealand and Australia: Land Company’s loss on tlie year's working is £176,079. It received £9loC profit on the Government’s resale ul wool, transferred £320,000 from tlie contingency fund, to the profit and 'oss account, and carried forward £l6/6. MANY WRiEATHS. LONDON, November 15 It is estimated that a hundred thousand wreaths have been deposited on the Cenotaph.

AMERICAN lIENNIS TEAM. VANCOUVER, November 15. The Niagara has sailed for Ne-v Zealand with the American Davis Cup team aboard. BRITAIN AND MIDDLE EAST. LONDON, November 15. Ttie “Daily' Chronicle” 'says Lord Curzon expected to announce in the House of Lords to-day that British troops be withdrawn from Persia and that there will be a drastic cutting down of the Mesopotamian force.

BRITAIN’S FOOD SUPPLY. 'LONDON, November 16. Mr Llovd George, in the House of Commons, during the Agricultural Bid debate made an appeal for more food production. When harvests were gooi, Britain, he said, only produced a quarter of what she required. This was a temptation to foreign enemies to attack them by adopting means by which they would be starved. Moreover, there was the question of th© national health. Whereas fifty years ago one third of the population were employed on the laud, only one-fifth were so employed in 1914. And the soil of Britain was infinitely richer than that of Germanv, Denmark or Italy. Their food supplies , must be greatly increased on the lines suggested by the Sclbouni© Committee's report. GERMAN FEELING. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) PRAGUE, Nov. 15. Owing to the resentment of German born people over the pulling down of Emperor Joseph’s statue in various towns, serious conflicts with Czechoslovak troops occurred. Germans entered the houses, cutting off the hair of girls who had been friendly towards soldiers. Troops in one town waited till midnight to pull down the statues. The city bells were rung and the whole population turned out, and considerable shooting followed.