CABLE BREVITIES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3457, 10 April 1920, Page 7

CABLE BREVITIES.

LONDON, April 7‘

A Cr(‘.ll€\'lL message announces that the Swiss Government declares that there is no question of resuming "reluEions wifh Russia. "

Owing to failing health, M. ClO- - who is now in Cairo, has abandoned his proposed visit to Ll‘-1-coco, and will: return to France. A. fall in the exchange rates of (3.1 points in Paris and S 7 in Rome, togethor\vith the Situartion on the Contincnt,'ll:ld a depressing effect on the Stock Exchange, and business is 1-0-strictcd. Consols were quoted at £45 17/6. The London County Council is issuing a loan of scven‘.millions sterling, bearing‘ vintercst at 551 per cent. The price of issue is £95.

VVASHINGTON, April 7.’

The State Department learns that Deniken has taken refuge on a. British warship. Chi.cago’s visible wheat and. flour supplies east of the Rockies totals 49,530,000 bushels. ' On being driven away from the front of the British Embassy, the women picketers utilised an aeroplane to send down leaflets denouncing England’s action in Ireland. Later they picketed the *"State Department oflices, carrying placards bearing quotations from a pro-Irish speech delivered on an occasion some time ago by Secretory of State Colby. '

TOKIO. April 17‘

In. the course of a speech on universal sufi'l-age, the P.remi'el- declared {hat

it aimed at the des/cructioll ofsocinl and ‘class distinctions, and even aimed at tnnlpering with the conscription saysfem, which was the basis of the ,country’s defence. The Government felt it m‘tlst remain in power, and would redouble its efforts to this end.