NEWS FROM ABROAD

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10613, 11 June 1920, Page 5

NEWS FROM ABROAD

BRITISH IMPORTS AND EXPORT'S. Reuter’s Telegram. LONDON, June 8. Tho exports during May totalled £119,310,600, compared with £64,344,000 in May, 1919, and the imports were £160,333,000, compared with £135,613,000. The chief increases in exports were: Manufactured goods: Cotton, £20,187,000; woollens. £5,079,000; iron and steel, £6,574,000. The exports for tho first five mouths of the year totalled £521,114,000, compared with £270,293,000 in 1919, and the imports totalled £863,201,000, compared with £594,094.000. Re-ex-ports of foreign and colonial merchandise amounted to £115,767,000 an increase of £72,296,060 compared with the samd period in 1919. GENERAL’S TRAGIC DEATH. > Reuter’s Telegram. 1 CAPETOWN, Juno 9. General Ravenshaw, General Officer Commanding in South Africa, has died of heart failure while elephant hunting in the Addo Bush/- Tho party was visiting the camp of Major Pro tori as, the renowned elephant hunter, ’ and went for a walk, armed, but not intending to shoot. They unexpectedly encountered a herd of elephants,, and sot out in hot pursuit after the elephants. The others outstripped General Ravenshaw, who was missing when they- returned. Native trackers, after a long search, discovered tho body in tangled bush, face downward, and still grasping tho rifle. CARUSO'S HOME ROBBED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. NEW YORK, Juno D. Caruso’s summer home was entered by burglars to-day and 600,000 dollars’ worth of jewellery stolen. ALLEGED - SUICIDE OF CARRANZA. NEW YORK, June 9. The '‘New York World’s” correspondent at Mexico City states that General Rodolfo Herrera has arrived there, bringing documentary evidence proving that Carranza committtod suicide when ho saw himself abandoned by his followers. PLAGUE DECREASING IN VERA CRUZ. NEW Y T ORK, Juno 9. The "New York Times” correspondent at Vera Cruz states that The bubonic plague appears to be waning. Only four new cases have been reported, with three dead, since Sunday. After much alarm, the city is regaining its tranquility. CHINA’S~NBW POLITICAL ADVISER. PEKIN, Juno 9. Mr J. C. Ferguson, formerly Councillor of the Chinese State Department, has succeeded tho late Dr Morrison as the President’s Political Adviser. suee~canajTdues. PARIS, Juno 9. Suez Canal dues in the ncwir future will be reduced by 25 centimes per ton. TRIBUTE TO - SIR T. MACKENZIE. "LONDON, June 9. Sir Charles Lucas, who was formerly head of tho Dominions Department at the Colonial Office, at a meeting of the Colonial Institute, paid a warm tribute to Sir Thomas Mackenzie’s services as ' High Commissioner for New Zealand.