CABLE SUMMARY.

Otaki Mail, Volume 27, 7 November 1919, Page 3

CABLE SUMMARY.

NEWS IN BRIEF. Copenhagen, November 3. After several days' bombardment, the Allied fleet silenced the batteries at Kronstadt and Krasnogorka. Heavy explosions were heard, suggesting that munition dumps had blown up. Sydney, November 5.

Owing to the drought the price of milk has been raised twopence per ga'S lon. It is now Is 4d per gallon. Paris, November 4.

A belated message announces tho arrival of Poulct, the aviator, sit. Constantinople, en route to Australia. London, November 3.

The Armenian Red Cross Fund has petitioned Mr Lloyd George, urging that the British troops in the Caucasus should not lie withdrawn until tiie Peace Conference has guaranteed the peace of the inhabitants, including 300,000 Armenian refugees. Manchester messages report a wave of speculation in the Lancashire cotton industry. Syndicates arc buying the i mills at high prices and floating companies, whose shares soon reach a premium. Six-figure fortunes have been made, while hundreds have reaped £IO,OOO from the boom. A million workers are now idle in tho ironfoundry, engineering, and shipbuilding trades owing to the moulders' strike, apart from a considerable number -who arc working short time.

Tho "Daily Mail" has opened a fund to finance Barry's visit to Australia. Sir Auckland Geddes stated that £196,000 worth of goods bad been imported from Germany and Austria during October. The imports comprised chiefly, the cheaper class of goods. Perth, November 5. Sir William Macartney, State Governor, proceeds to England early ncxt year on urgent private business. It is understood that he will not return. Sydney, November 5. The Burns-Philp copra store at Glebp Island has been destroyed by fire. The damage is estimated at over £30,000. Copenhagen, November 2. The British steamer Volturnus, carrying food to the British fleet in The Baltic, was sunk by a mine. The crew were rescued. Washington, November 2. It is announced that the completed programme of the Shipping Board will include 1731 oil-burning ships, totalling ten million tons deadweight (roughly 1,500,000 tons gross).