GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3581, 17 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

SERVIA AND ALBANIA.

Received 10.50 a.m

WASHINGTON, Sept. 16

The Albanian Commissioner in the United States has appealed to President Wilson to take immediate steps to secure the withdrawal of the Serbians from Albania, which he alleged the Servans are attempting to destroy. SHIPPING. Received 9.50 a.m. VANCOUVER, Sept. 15. Arrived: Niagara, from New Zealand.

PANAMA, Sept. 15. Arrived: Hororata, from Wellington SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. IV. Sailed: Maiama, for Wellington; VVoodarra, for Bluff.

Received 10.40 a.m. SYDNEY, This Day. Bailed. —Port Darwin, for Auckland. NEWCASTLE, This Day. Sailed.—War Lord for Auckland.

COMMUNICATIONS CONFERENCE,

Received 9.15 a.'in

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10

It is understood that the United States represeniatives at the International Communications Conference will endeavour to make an arrangement under which cable messages during peace time will be free from control and censorship. It is pointed out that the greater amount of news from Southampton to the United States passes through British control, while nearly all other cable dispatches to the United States pass over French, British, and Japanese lines, and a.re thus subject to supervision.

A GOLF PRODIGY.

Received 9.50 a.m

LONDON, Sept. 26.

Barbara Griffiths, aged fourteen years, the youngest of a family of golf players, may be beaten in the semi-finals for the girls' goSf championship. At Stoke Poges she showed wonderful form in the earlier rounds, beaing much older players.

SALE OF RUSSIAN JEWELS

eßceived 9,15 a.m_ , LONDON, Sept. 16

According to the- firm of jewellers who purchased the alleged Russian Crown jewels, which were sold to provide funds for the proposed “Daily Herald” subsidy, they were not the Crown jewels. The firm states iliat it bought them in the ordinary course of business, and was quite unaware of their origin. The price paid wag £30.000. The jewels were of poor quality, with bad markings, and were in a dirty condition. The stones purchased were not the Imperial jewels but more likely'- be-?' longed to a middle-class” family. The two biggest stones were yellow Cape diamonds. “A BOLSHEVIK COUP.” THE FIRST IN ENGLAND. Received 9.15 a.m. LONDON, Sept. .16. Red Army propagandists carried out their first coup in London; but it was not of a very awe-inspiring character. Several hundred men under a leader,, who proclaimed himself a Bolshevik, forcibly entered the Labour Exchange at Harlesden, carrying a portable platform, “and began to hold a meeting. The police were promptly summoned and ejected the invaders, who did not resist. The leader called out to his followers, whom he addressed as the Red Army, to “form fours, ” and marched them of! to Bolshevik headquarters.