GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3533, 22 July 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

GEN CABLES. aU awcheuil Received 8.40. LONDON, July 20. Lord Harmsworth, in the "Hbuse of Commons, stated that Finland, Latvia, and Lithuania declined the invitation to participate in a peace conference at London. NEW YORK. July 20. A telegram from Chicago announces that the Railway Board has granted increases of wages amounting to six hundred millions sterling to railroad employees. Received 0.25. LONDON, July 21. J. Beresford wen the Wingfield Sculis by five lengths. Gollan was second.

VANCOUVER, July 21. The s.s. Niagara has" arrived. WASHINGTON, July 21. The Department of Commerce has published a report received from the United States Consul at Sydney, suggesting the advisability of diverting oil burning ships from the Australian trade owing to the acute fuel shortage in Australia, which is a matter of grave concern to the Australian navy. Received 9.50 a.m. • PARIS, July 21. The cruisers Stuttgart, Kouigisburg and Strassbnrg, and three German destroyers Which have been handed ever to France have arrived at Cherbourg. WELTEYREDEN, July 21. Received 11 a.m. Parer and Mcintosh have reached Muntok. They will continue their flight on the 22ndT6 Ka'.idjati.

COLOSSALLY DIFFICULT. TERM SIMPOSED AT SPA. • BERLIN, July 20. Herr von Simons (German Foreign Minister), interviewed by the Zeitung in regard to the carrying out of the conditions imposed by the Spa Conference, declared that they were not impossible, but were colossally difficult. They would have been refused if the German experts had not •wavered. Germany must work without delay for the creation of another solution and must bring forward a new programme, otherwise disarmament might end in civil war over the coa! question, with the occupation of the Ruhr Valley.

GERMAN BATTLESHIP SALVED.

' Received 8.40 a.m. LONDON, July 20. The German battleship "Baden, salved at Scapa Flow, has arrived at Portsmouth. She will be employed in the British Navy. INCREASED RAILWAY FARES. BRITISH PUBLIC PROTESTS. Received 8.40 a.m. LONDON, July 20. The agita.tion agianst increased railway fares is spreading. Protest meetings, have been held at seaside resorts and also by metropolitan Com- | moners, who especially complained I against the increase .' checking the (August holiday traffic. Pressure on the Government is so strong that it is likely to defer the date of the increase from Ist August to Ist September. It is estimated that the postponement will cost £3,000,000.

TURKISH CABINET RESIGNS. Received 8.4.0. LONDON, July 20. The Turkish Cabinet has resigned. It is believed that a new Ministry will be formed, and will be willing to affirm the Treaty. Received 11.0. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 21. The Sultan has refused the Grand Vizier's resignation, and has requested him to form a new Cabinet.

ITALIAN LABOUR TROUBLES. PUBLIC HOSTILITY TO STRIKERS. Received 8.40. ROME, July 21. » Though the railway and tramway strikes have terminated, few lines are working. Owing to intense public indignaEon, almost every strike leader has been assaulted by angry Romans. The strikers fear to appear in the streets, and are seeking the protection of the police, whom they have been insulting for weeks. The Socialist Deputies are alarmed. HOSTILITIES IN SYRIA. PRANCE AND THE ARABS. Received 9.50 a.m. PARIS, July 21. Owing to Feisul's- reply being unsatsatisfactory, French operations isfactory, Blench operations against the Arabs have probably already begun

AMERICA CUP. SHAMROCK WINS BY 2Min. 26See. NEW YORK, July 20. Official: The Shamrock won by two minutes 26 seconds. According to the official record, the Shamrock finished at 5.38.6 and the Resolute at 5.48.7. In tne last reach' the Resolute gained when the Shamrock was three miles from the finish and was only some seconds over the time allowance. A 'spare flattening wind reduced the Resolute's chance.

RESOLUTE WINS ON TIME ALLOWANCE. , (Association Extraordinary.) Received 9.40 a.m. '. NEW YORK. July 21. Owing to an increase in the Resolute's time allowance she won the rac'e. Received 11 a.m. NEW YORK, July 21. It is announced that due permission was given for the Shamrock to use a large club sail. The Resolute's time allowance was increased to seven minutes one second, and "she therefore won the race. THE TROUBLE IN CHINA. THE CAPITAL THREATENED. Received 8.40 a.m. PEKIN, July 21. Seventeen trainloads of Chang Tsolin'.? Mukden troops have passed through Tientsin for Pekin. Despite the success of Yanitun, events are going against Tuan Cbijiu on all fronts, and his forces are retiring on the capital. Bad generalship caused severe reverses to his forces along the Pekin-Hangkow railway. Received 9.50. PEKIN, July 21. A Tientsin message states that owing to the interruption of the railway, reinforcements for the .Tapauese Legation at Pekin were unable to proceed. . .;■;.. TROUBLE IN THE BALKANS.

Received 9.50 a.m. PARIS, July 21. Advices from Sofia state that many demonstrations have occurred Throughout Bulgaria against the Greeks. The Bulgarians have called up the 1921 class.