GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1919, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

AMERICA AND THE LEAGUE. By Telegraph—Press Assa.—Copyright. Washington, October 24. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted the resei nations in the League of Nations covenant. It is provided that American representatives on the Council of the League must be endorsed by the Senate, also prohibiting the United States acting as mandatory over the German overseas possessions. LABOR. IN UNITED STATES. New York, October 24. As a result of the deadlock in the Industrial Conference it is expected the farmers, railwaymen, and the American Federation of Labor will form a great alliance for industrial and political purposes. j MORE TROUBLE IN EGYPT. I Cairo, October 25. Renewed angry demonstrations occur- . red in Alexandria and, Cairo against ' Lord Milner's Commission, which mem- ! bers of the legislative and provincial councils are determining to boycott. Disorders and possibly a general strike are feared when the commission ar-rives,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GOLD IN SOUTH AFRICA. Capetown, October 2.5. Official reports of the Pretoria Conference on the gold position as affecting the cost of living, state that the conference passed a resolution in favor of the establishment of natural exchange and an open market for gold, the parly establishment of a mint and refinery, and also in favor of the exportation of coin after the establishment of the mint, the alteration of the agreement with the Bank of England, the desirability of uniform banking laws. The Labor representatives' motion in favor of a State bank was nega-tived—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DROUGHT IN SOUTH AFRICA. Capetown, October 25. The drought throughout the Union, except in the coastal belt, is assuming an alarming aspect. It is described aa the worst in SO years. Official estimates place the shortage of production at, 33 per cent,, and. as imports are restricted owing to thi» world's shortage, the position is more serious than in former years of drought. FRENCH TRAITOR SHOT. Paris, October 24. Lenoir, who was found gniltv of treason, was shot at Vincennes. Ho had to be carried to the place of execution. Doctors previously examined him and declared that his paralysis was onlv the paralysis of fear. STEAMER SUNK BY MJNE London. October 25. Thn Swedish steamer " Hollander struck a mine in the North f?ea and sank in a few minutes. There were four survivors out of a crew of twentyfour.