GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3536, 26 July 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN SEAMEN IN CANADA

Received 8.35

VANCOUVER, July 24,

Ottawa has ordered the unconditional admission of the five Australian sailors off a Canadian importer, and they will be released and paid off. AMERICAN RAII.ROADS. Received 8.35. NEW YORK, July 24. A Chicago message states that the executive of the 'Railroad Brotherhood has completed an order for a countrywide referendum cn the Federal Labour Board’s wages award, aud is strongly advising against a strike, intimating that eighty-four per cent, of the employees had agreed through their representatives to accept.

FRANCO-BRITISH OIL INTERESTS. Received 9.5. LONDON, July 24. The Franco-British oil agreement provides that in Ron mania the two Governments wi 3 support the respective nationals with a view to • the acquisition of former German oil interests and other concessions; all shares in the ■ f.rmer being half French and half British.

In Russia, the two Governments will support the'respective nationals in acquiring ;co.nc\es.'tioii.-v in Mesopotamia, France to receive 25 per cent, of the Government output at market rates, or 25 per cent, cf the shares in private companies. The agreement also provides for the reconstruction of pipe lines and railways for the transportation of oil through the French sphere t- 1 the Mediteranean. In North Africa ami other French colonics France wi’l give facilities to Franeo-British groups, Britain giving corresponding advantages in British Crown Colonics.

INDIA. FRONTIER FIGHTING. Received 9.5. DELHI. July 24. In north-west Persia, a party oftwo 1 hundred Jungalo tribesmen fired ojj a British patrol midway between Resht and Mangil. WIRELESS TELEPHONY. Received 10.5, ST. JOHNS, July 24. Marconi, from Signal Hill station, telephoned conversationally to the journalists aboard the Victorian, when she was one hundred miles out.. Premier Squires will send a wireless telephone welcome.

BOWLING. LONDON, July 25; At the Brighton ‘Bowls tournament, which had 158 entries, Orchard, of New Zealand, lost the final, being beaten by fourteen to twelve in 21 ends. ALBANIANS ATTACK VALONA. DRIVEN BACK BY ITALIANS. Received 9.30. ROME, July 25. Four thousand Albanians attempted to drive out the Italians from Valona, but were [completely .repulsed, after eight hours ’ fighting. Hundreds were killed by artillery fire and bombs, and later, seventy by the bayonet, in a counter attack.

A KIDNAPPED GERMAN. TAKEN TO UNKNOWN DESTINATION. Received 9.30. PARIS, July 25. Le Matin says that Dorden a Separatist (cabled on June 5, 1919) was kidnapped opposite his residence, at Wiesbaden, by three armed men. and carried off in a motor car to an unknown destination in unoccupied Germany. THE LAMBETH CONFERENCE. THE KING RECEIVES BISHOPS. Received 9.30. LONDON, .-July 25. The King, at Buckingham Palace, received the Bishops attending the Lambeth Conference. FOOD RIOTS AT TREVES. I

SHOPS AND WAREHOUSES PILLAGED. Received 9.30, COPENHAGEN, July 25. The Berliner Tagehlatt states that owing to high prices of food and clothing a mob, at Treves, pillaged shops and warehouses. The police were over* powered and appealed to French troops to assist in restoring order. Arrangements arc in progress to reduce prices.