GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3573, 8 September 1920, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

JAPANESE AFFAIRS.' TOKIO, Sept. 5. Baron Okuma, aduTessiug American 3ongressin.cn, asked for Japan to be Glowed to have a free hand in Korea vherc Japan’s intervention was di'ected towards the betterment of conlitions. He declared that America hould recognise Japan’s good intenions in Ec ca and Simria, and pointed ut that Japan acquiesced in Amerian annexation of the Phillipines, acopting the explanation that it was ar the benefit of the people’s affected. SAN FRANCISCO Sept. 5. Senator Phelan declared that war, d the death would ho waged against ny attempt to compromise* Caiifornr’s attitude regarding Japanese imdgration and expressed his unbelief iat. the State Department would acept any Japanese Jconqtromisc and ffers. NEW YORK, Sept. 6. The New York World’s Washing>33. corresymndent says that according ( dispatches from Tokio it is under- _ ood Premier Hara, recently having mdicated his position respecting the :ffrage question, is now prepared to sign. Three men prominently menoned as possible successors arc Hano, Kato, and Goto. Kato is eondejred the likeliest. BRITISH COAL CRISIS. j ’ ! LONDON, Sept. 6. ; Though it is improbable the Trade ' lion Congress wilt attempt bridge- j ilding betrveen the Government and 3 miners as the miners are averse, ; vertheless manoeuvring for peace is ing on and the prospects are brighTHE CRISIS IN ITALY. PARIS, Sept. 6. ?üblie opinion is seriously conned at the spread of Bolshevism in ly. Soviets have been established Mi'an, Turin- Genoa, Naples, Bologand Rome. Serious conflict with > Italian Government seems inevite. T LONDON, Sept. (3. | According to a message front Milan, j i workers who seized the factories j putting up strong defences, in- j ding a stout network of barbed i •e. In sbme cases the men have ured machine-guns and tanks. If ice venture near they are greeted h a stream of boiling water pumped in a hydraulic • pump. COMOTIVE BLOWN TO PIECES. ELEVEN WORKMEN' KILLED. PARIS, Sept. 6. l locomotive at Bordeaux ran off track, exploded, and killed eleven rkmen, badly injuring 12. The ene was brown to pieces. The acciit was due to the sudden entry of d water into an over-heated boiler. 3W PIANO PLAYING RECORD. 1 LONDON, Sept. 5. ' Professor Kemp played the piano itiuously for. 110 hours, beating the rld’s record held by a New Zeader. A WAY OF THE ARMY. LONDON, Sept. 0. CtaTy recently returned 4000 Rushs captured in the Austrian Irenes, When the vessels arrived at .essa the hapless men were marched barracks and ordered to go to the dish front forthwith. Those proving that they wished to see their milies from whom they had been paraded for five years were sumirily shot.

THE JAPANESE QUESTION. AMBASSADOR’S MISSION. WASHINGTON, Sept. 6. Japanese circles declare that Am- | bassador Shid Hara intends to demand that the United States Federal Government prevent the passage .of the proposed Ca ifornian law prohibiting Japanese from holding land. Otherwise Japan will refuse to negotiate about the Chinese open door, which Senator Cclby desires to discuss. Shid Hara is prepared to accept the prohibitoin of further Japanese immigration to America if the Japanese now here are given normal rights. SHIPPING. SYDNEY, Sept. 7. Arrived: Swallow from Greymouth. CRICKET. SYDNEY, Sept. 7. The Cricket Board of Control is awaiting confirmation of the cable that the English cricketers' are not sailing till the end of September, as, unless au earlier departure be arranged, it will he necessary to alter the Australian itinerary. NEW SOUTH WALES FINANCES. i SYDNEY, Sept. 7. j Premier Storey has announced that , four millions more revenue than in . 1919 will be required to finance the I s'tate during 1920. THE PEACE LOAN ’ IThe Peace Loan subscriptions jumped to fifteen millions, on Monday but the figures are incomplete. Victoria is leading with an aggregate

subscription of six and a half millions, yesterday’s amount being two milions. New South Wales is four millions shoifi; of its quota.