GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3502, 14 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

TENNIS. THE DAVIS CUP. Received 9.35 a.m. LONDON, June 13. Shimidzu’g retirement from ithe Kept tennis championship was due to the sportsmanlike desire that Kingscote should win the trophy outright by a third year's victory.

Holland and South Africa in first round of the singles for the Davis Cup, played at Al-nheimy, each won the game. Hollana won the doubles

BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY. Received 8.45 am. LONDON, June 12. The final meeting of the Imperial Entomological C.onfel-ence, Lord ‘Harcourt presiding, pas’sed a resolution in favour of holding a similar conference in London every five years. It establi':he(l an Imperial Bureau of Enfomo logy on 21 permanent basis z-ec<nn-mend that the (.-ontributing Governmenfs should gmzrantee contl'ibll‘rionS

enfs should gn::rant<>e contributions and provision of. :1 total income of £3OOO.

IMPERIAL DEFENCE‘

‘Received 8.4.5 a.m

LONDON, June 12.

The Pm-lianientary Army Committee is memoralising the Premier and Mr Bonar Law, suggesting important changes in the Empirefs defence organisation. The scheme involves representation of the three services. on the body charged with the responsibility of co-ordination of expenditvre, with a commitment of. foreign policy adopted by the Government of the day.

In the House ti Commons, replying to Mr Seely, Mr Lloyd George stated the Committee of Imperial Defence was consfimted so as Xfo deal wifh

co-ordination of sea, land, and .air defences. of the Empire by experts from the three services attending meetings of the Committee as required. He hoped meetings Would be new shortly. '

SOVIET GOVERNMENT IN PERSIAReceived 3.55 am. ‘ TEHERAN, June 12. Kutchik Khna. has proclaimed himself Prime Minister and War Minister of the Persian Soviet Gvoernment.

MR. WATT’S RESIGNATION.

Received 10.10.

LONDON, June 13%

The News of flfé World states Mr Watt’s resiguhtiou was due to the discovery that Mr Hughes had not communicated to him. the contents of the cablegrams between ‘Mr Hughes and the Imperial Government régfiiding wool. “

HINCKLBR RETURNS HOME}.

Received 10.10.

LONDON, June 13‘

Hincklcr has abandoned his flight to Australia and has returned to. Eng" land. . |

QUEEN ALBXANDR.A’S HEALTH.

Received 10.10. A LONDON, June 13.

Alarmist rumours regarding the health of Queen Alexandra are semiofficially denied, but recovery of her impaired vision is sl'ow.

TI-IE VATICAN ’S NEW POLICY.

Received 9.15.

ROME, June 13.

The Papal encyclical permitting Catholic sovereigns to visit Rome as an outcome of the 'v’atican’s new policy of participating in Italian poli~ tics, will enable Italy to enter into closer relations with ojthe? Qatholic countries. The Va.tican’s‘pro-Italian policy has angered the Jugo-Slavs. It believes lfhe Kirig of Spain will shoijtr ly ‘visit Rome. ~

ITALIAN NEWS. . RIOT BY SOLDIERS, ALBANIANS REPULSED. Received 9.35. _ ROME, June’ 13

Two hundred Arcliti, objecting to embark for Albania, caused a serious riot at Trieste, in‘ which a number of soldiers and civilians were killed and injured. The Arditi ultimately capitulated, and embarked. Troops have occupied Milan station owing to lfhe railwaymen strike. It is officially a.nnounc‘ed-that assaults by Albanian rebels on Valona were repelled. Ten Italians were killed, twenty wounded, and one general captured. The A’lba.nians-fled, leaving six hundred dead and one hundred wounded. The Italians have been reinforced. The latest unofficial netvs is that the Albanians" entered Valona and occupied Palermo, further south. The defence of Valona is now entrusted to cruisers.

SPAIN ’S NAVY.

Received 9.35.

MADERA, June 13%

The Government is drafting a. Bill for fhé construction of a. second squvad~ ron comprl'§ing vessels of all descriptions. _

GERMAN CABINET CRISIS.

LOOKING FOR A LEADER.

Received~ 9.35.

BERLIN, June 13

On Dr Mueller declaring he was unable to form a Cabinet, Ebert asked. Dr Heinze, chairman of {the Peopl'e’s Party, to form a. Minisf/ry.

The Tageblatt says 'Heinze. strenuously opposed -the Kapp coup, and is more suitable to fill the role of mediator ‘than most of his party friends.

‘, PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. ISSUES CLARIFIED. Received 9.35. VVAMSHINGTON. June 12. Sen:l.for Colby. <°ommelli“ing on Senator Hal-ding’s nominzation as Republican candidate for the Presidency, said frmn the standpoint of tho Dom-acrats’ fhe nomination of Mr Harding was very adnfirable, because it fonds to clarify and emphasise every issue beItween the Democrats and Republicans.

THE LIMIT TO LABOUFVS DEMAND& ' THFFEAT TO CLOSE DOWN. . Received 11.40 a..m_ e LONDON, June 13. The Nationaff News» states that a. private meeting of employers in the em gineering trades, held at Edinburgh, decided 't7o resist. lall demands {sfor further increases in_ Wages, and close down»-all W-Orks, creating a gigantic lock-out, unless the latest demands are withdrawn.

.6 A.1‘.1:. ANNUAL CONVBNTIGN.

Received 10.15.

OTTA.WA., .lun.e

Amid -tremendous applause the vAmerican Federation of Labouz-’g annual conv.en\t-ion at I\lon’r:.-cal adopteii a. report condemning the Republican convention at Chicago for turning their backs upon Labour. .M‘r Gorupc-rs, reading a report, criticised the various sections of the Republican plank. He‘ asserted that the Labour declaration of the Republican platform proposes industrial enslavement and the abroga;ion of rights. The executive council directed that"'La'b'ollr"s H"ema»nd be» submitted in identical form to the democratic convention at Sun Fra.n~ cisco. ‘ '