LATE CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3440, 20 March 1920, Page 5

LATE CABLE NEWS.

Received 10.50 21.111

LONDON, March 18.

Sir Brien Cockayno, Governor of the Bank of England, has been made a baronct.

The report of Mr MCCurdy’s departmental committec advises wholesale food markets ‘in London shall be und_o‘r 3. single public authority, not private owners. It suggests thatpowcr be givon_ to close the exis/‘ring markets, and cgtablish others suitable for many years.

Ml‘ Lloyd George has been elected. on the executive committee of the .\Tational Free Churches’ Council this

year. There were wild scenes at 9. seminfinal Irish football club competition between Cliftonville and Belfast. The erowd invaded the field, and: the match was abandoned. Revolvers were fired, and :1 policeman was Shot in the neck. Ten were senf to hispital_ CONSTANTINOPLE, March 18.

General Milne has Carrie dout the ocoupation, using all the Allivs’ troops, including :1 strong Indian Moslcm contingent. Tho Benbow has her guns trained upon the city. Received 10.20 am. WASHINGTON, March 19. The House of Representatives approved of :1 peace-time army of two hundred thousand men and 17,800 officers.

Mr Polk asked the Chilian Anlbassador to urge his Government to use the friendliest influence to reconcile Peru and Bolivia.

The State Department has sent a third note »to Peru and Bolivia, asking them to compose their diiferences. A despatch from Lima states Bolivia. has expressed regrets to the Peruvian Minister for the Lapaz incidence (cabled on 17th March). .

It is announced that American Red Cross workers found the Grand Duchess Olga, sisttlalr to the Czar, in Russia, living in terrible poverty in an abandoned railway ca.rria.ge near Novorossi.=..l;, South Russia,