GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 December 1920, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

| BY TELEGRAM—PER PRESS ASSOCIATION] AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. JAPAN AND THE SOVIET. NEW YORK, D..-. 25. Tlie New York “Times” Washingi in correspondent learns that Japan lias informed the United Steps th n rile intends to resist by all nie.in* m !>' t. power efforts of the Soviet to exclude Japanese from the fishing ,'ndust.y cn the Asintie-Russian cost. Jap* n insists a Japanese-Russ.ian treaty of 1907 permits the retention of fisheries THE HOHENZOLLKRNS. LONDON. Dec. *• '•’he New York “Times” Door; correspondent states that during the exKaiser’s Christmas party, Wilhelm was compelled to hasten to the bedside of the ex-Kaiserin, whose condition became most critical. RACE IN ARMAMENTS.

LONDON, Dec. 28. A njjmber of. newspapers are publishing leading articles calling attention to the danger of the naval competition going on .between Britain, America, and Japan. They suggest the need for a naval understanding with a view to a stoppage of construction. They are insisting the world is too impoverished to meet the cost. NEW GISBORNE HARBOUR.. 1 GISBORNE 1 , December 28. It is understood that the amended harbour scheme designed by a commission of engineers (Mr William Ferguson Blgir Mason and Mr Cyrus Williams) provides for the same site as originally recommended but the area is reduced to 120 acres, with a depth at the entrance of 35feet, and the cost is estimated at one million. As a means of temporary relief to the present piled inner harbour, tlie commission recommends inter-alia, a mid-wall in the entl ranee channel which will reduce the width of the entrance to 100 feet.