GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3567, 1 September 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

MEDICAL CONGRESS TO WIND UP. BRISBANE, August 30. At the closing session of the Medical Congress it was announced .that a ballot taken had resulted in favour of discontinuing the- meetings of the Congress. The execctive committee was authorised to take steps to -wind up the affairs of the Congress. GERMANY APOLOGISES. LONDON, August 30. i Germany has ampUy apologised to France for the insults at Breslau. LOCOMOTIVES FOR RUSSIA. BERLIN, August 30. A Saxon engineering company has received an order from Soviet Russia for locomotives to the value of thirty million marks. AVIATION. PARIS, August 30. The Aero Club of America has notified the Aero Olub of France that America will be represented in the competition for the Gordon Bennett trophy.

THE AMERICA CUP. OTTAWA, August 30. The Canadian Yachtsman Ross, has published an open letter to Sir T. Lipton, asking him either to withdraw his declared intention Co challenge for the America Cup in 1921-1922, or agree to make the next race triangular. Rass also asks for a change of course and the class of yachts, pointing out that the public interest in tho last races had waned, due to the failure of "the Shamrock and Resdlute to answer the requirements in a really heavy wind. A MAMMOTH ENTERPRISE. WASHINGTON, Acgiest 30. The United States Shipping Boarl is completing plans for the sale of vessels, shipyards and construction materials valued at more than 2500 million dollars. The Board has 1605

vessels ready for delivery (> and will have 127 more by January Ist. The vessels are valued at an average price of 172 dollars per ton. The Board has? already |of 389 vessels for 272.030 thousand ddllanrs.