GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3509, 22 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

TIGHT BETWEEN BLACK AND WHITE SAILORS. Received 8.40. LONDON, Juno 20. As a result of a serious conflict between white and black sailors at Hull the contents of live houses were completely wrecked and sixteen men sent to hospital. The trouble was due to the increasing numbers of blacks seen in company with white women. Two blacks have been arrested.

ANTI-PROFITEERING IN AMERICA

CAMPAIGN STARTED. Received 9.0. NEW YORK, June 21. federal agents have arrested Frederick Gimble, head of the great department store, on a charge of profiteering. It is announced it is only the beginiug of extensive prosecutions. It is alleged Gimbles sold a mohair suit costing live dollars fifty cents for twenty dollars, and ,a suit' of clothing costing thirty-three dollars for 75 dollars; also another costing fifteen dollars for thirty-three dollars seventy-five cents. Gimble has been held in oue thousand dollars bail for the July bearing.

ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE

JAPANESE STATESMEN INTERVIEWED. LONDON, June 21., . The Daily Express' Tokio correspondent interviewed Baron Kato regarding the renewal of the alliance. Baron Kato said Australians seemed to imagine it would open the floodgates of immigration. The alliance had existed for twenty years and Australia had had absolutely no trouble on that score. The correspondent said that in view of her war service Australia's voice must be heard. Baron Kato answered: How could the Australian armies have fought without the Japanese navy. Australia was consulted at the last renewal of the Alliance, and fully approved of it. He admitted the alliance now served no specific object. The widespread desire for it was based on the fear of isolation rather than specific danger. Renewal was an act of mutual prudence. If the alliance was not renewed Britain and Japan would drift into cool relations. An early decision was unattaiable, but negotiations were proceeding in the friendliest manner. Japan thoroughly realised the necessity for consulting the Imperial Conference and the League of Nations.

THE TURKISH OUTLOOK. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 21. A British warship in the Gulf of Ismid, using fifteen-inch guns, dispersed a Turkish column on the inarch. The British are evacuating Batouin. SHANTUNG. JAPAN'S DESIRE FOE SETTLEMENT. TOKIO, June 20. The Forcigu Office has issued a statement regarding Chin o-Japanese negotiations on the Shantung question as follows: It is a source of deepest regret that at a time when all the nations of the world are making efforts towards the establishment of enduring peace, a question of importance to China and Japan should remain unsettied. Japan stands unchanged in its sincere desire to promote a fair and just, solution of the Shantung question with Ihe least possible delay and will pursue a fixed policy towards China. THE AMRITSAR SHOOTING CASE, Received 9.20 a.m. LONDON, June 21. The Secretary of the Army Council states that no decision has been reached in General Dyer's case. ADD IRELAND . SHIPPING. Received 10 a.m. VANCOUVER, June 21. Departure: For Sydney, via Auckland. Tahiti. LONDON, June 21. For New Zealand ports, via Sydney, Port Sydney. SAN FRANCISCO, June 21. For Wellington: Tofua. GERMAN DISARMAMENT. BELGIUM INFLEXIBLE. Received 9.20. z PARIS, June 21. A message from Boulogne states that M. Jaspar, the Belgian representative on the Supreme Council, states as far as German disarmament is concerned Belgium will not accept any compromise. He favoured a resumption of normal commercial relations with Rus-