GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3491, 20 May 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE ARMISTICE MANDATB.

Received 9.20 mm. WASHINGTON, May 18.

Following :1. Cabinet nlec.ting_, at which the Armenian mandate was discussed, it. is xeported the matter will shortly be laid before Congress, which is expected to Vote agilinfit. its acceptance. a H

CANADI§3.N FINANCES. Received 10.10 21.111. ' OTTAWA, May 19, Minister of ]:‘i'l'l"zi'li‘c’é Drayton, in a speech, said 70 per cent of C:.umda’s imports in 191.‘) came‘ from the United Statvs. _C.‘.anada’s not national debt was approximately 1935 million dollars. The revenue for the fiscal year 1919 iotalled 388 millions_

COUNCIL OF NATIONAL LEAGUE.

\VI_I.S(‘)N’S ACTION CONDEMNED.

«$3-XF‘]‘}(}II:\RMDING ]3RITA[N’S OIL SUPPLIES.

Receivel 9.15 11.111.

..VVASHING'.I‘ON, May 19

President VVilsoll"W‘il]. comply with the request of the Council of the National League, and call a meoiting of the League in November in London.

The British Government. intends to S2lf(,‘g‘D3l'(l British interests and the accessibility of petroleum supplies, and is taking steps to make the army and n:wyilldep(mdell‘rof United States supplies in any future war. It regards President‘ VVilson’s report as. allt-i-Bri-tish in tone, and unnecessarily theatrical, and chzll'ac‘terises the Sfaudard Oil C6mpany’s complain"t as not fair play. and pal‘t.iculzlrly audacious from the viewpoint of the ruthless policythat the conipzmy has pursued for forty years. . V

AMERICA’S OIL SIi'PPLY.

40 PER CENT EXH.-.\US,TION‘

Reieivcd 9.20 ‘mm.

\\’:XSHING'{fON, May 19.

‘Ac-cording to Government statistics, 40’rper cent of the United ‘States’ pilp3'o«:]ll<:ing fields are: exhausted. The United States flu'nishe_s 69 per cent of the Wm-}d’s supply_ . _ _

BRITISH N ATIONALITY AND ALIENS.

A sI’[n.LBORN BILL.

Received 11.30 .a.m. ‘ z LONDON, May 18.

In the -House of Lords, Lord Stanhope, in moving the second }'§9fi'ipg of the Brifish Natiolmlity and Status r.:’r' Aliens Bill, said it largely modified the Act of 19.14, and the subsequent Ino:lsu.x-es, and he coutelxded foreigners ought not to be a.dnlit’r.ed \-«bile ex-snrvic-.e men were walking the sHoM.< unemployed.

’ The Lord Chancellor decl:u'c<] the p1'opo:=.:1ls were wholly unwol'kable, the Bill unamelldabl‘o, imd, inter alia, would involve a revolution of ‘the whole system existing as a .Igesult of repeated conferences befween the Home and Dominion govcrnnmnts. It would involve a. breach of understal'ld—ing with the latter, and constihrte aiu attempt: to legislate for _'t,llo Dominions within their own tel'rit;ories,‘ which they undoubtedly virould resent, A_ar‘ld to which it Was wholly impossible to give effect. The Bill was dropped without :1 clivil Slo3}.

BRITAIN ’S VITAL STATISTICS.

R EC‘-()RD BIR TI-TR ATE.

Rceeixwd 11.30 a.m

LONDON, May .18‘

The quarterly return of m-.u'ri:lgcs, births, and clcaths for England. and Wales shows births to be 271,092, which is :1 record: deaths, ]37_.(337, Whoreof 4037 were due to influenza. Infant mm't:l]i'fy was SS per thousand, which is 32 per thousand below the.:lvel-age of the ten preceding first quarters. 2.5‘(),760 births and 137.022 deaths were rc-_qisfororl in the three months ending 31st. Doomnbor. In the ‘Unifed Kingdom Hl6 increase of population, there~ fare, is 133.738. Ha:-riagcs during the .-mno qn:n'tm' ‘totalled 2384.460.

THE MEUEEUGE’ SURRENDER,

A CCUSED A CQUITTED.

‘Rcfceived 9.15 a.:m-. PARIS, May 18. The com-tmartial acquifted all aceue; ed of the Meubcufle SIITTOTId9I‘-

A DISSATISFIED I'REN'CI-TMAN.

Received 9.15 am. PARIS, May 18.

M. Poincare ‘has resigned the pl'esi Janey of the Reparations Cammission on fihe ground that the I-"remier’s emiference at Hythe ignored the Comtnixsion. -

GERMAN ELECTIONS.

A RET-ROGR-ADE TENDENCY‘

Received 9.15 a.m_ BERLIN, May 18‘

The Landtag elections in B‘l‘Tl’nswick, Mechlenburg-Strelitz, and the constituents Assembly election in Dantzig reveal a retrograde tendency. Plnral Socialists have gone over to the Independents, and a gl'eat many demoemts have joined the Conservatives. The German popular party at. Dantzig secured thirty-four seats, Majority Socialists 19, Independents 21, Poles 7. The elections fairly indicafte ‘the possible trend of tho Reichstag elections.

EUROPE ’S TRAG-IC‘ STATE.

LONDON, May ‘ ‘-3.

Ml‘ Asquith, speaking. at the C-33-tral Hall, Westminster, pointzd to the tragic situation throughout Eurapz. Hé expressed the opinion that the only pmctieal remedy was 1-evi:<io.l and niodificzlfioii of the forms of ,p+-.:l':e coupled with prompt. executive op-3:1-tion of the League of Natiou’s powers. -WASHINGTON, May 17.

Congress does not seem inclined to vote :Ippl'opl'i:ltionS to aid Central Europe along the lines Mr Davidson sllgg;osted. Members point out that the United States has duties of its own people first, and whatever aid America gives should be debated privately.

PRICE-CUTTING IN U.S.

NEW YORK, May 17%

Tllirty-four cifies throughout the country reporf price cutting of 20 to sio per cenfoh all merchandise, even including automobiles. This is resultfng in a considerable reduction in the cost of lving. Freight: congestion, tight money, and‘ lessened buymg are assigned as the causes for this reduction

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Received 10.25 a.m‘

SYDNEY, thls Day.l

The statement issued by Mr Dunn shows that to date the Government has distributed £77,6%0 in relief to distressed farmers.

A company is being formed to establish an air sérvice between Sydney and Bathurst-. BRISBANE, this day.

The Government ‘has decided in future to exclude non—unio_nist teachers from the advantages gained by teachers in the Union.

MELBOURNE, this day. The Federal Govemment is I'elin~ quishing con‘rrol of coal. .

in the House of ‘Representatives there was xgacl a first time :1 Bill allt-ll()l'i.\‘illg‘ the expenditure of Twenty millions 0191 war sefvices. Mr Hughes zumounced the Government would not extend the moratol~ ium. The State Government has provisionally :Ippl'oVed the est:lblisllnlellt of am .\‘t':lte 01'c}1est1':1. .