GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 January 1920, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

BRITISH COLUMBIA FISHERIES. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copytlsht. Ottawa, Jan. 1. Responding to the agitation by returned soldiers the Government has issued regulations limiting the activities of the Japanese in the salmon fisheries of British Columbia, wherein 10,000 are employed. Recently the Japanese were buying up canneries extensively and threatening almost to monopolise the industry. The new regulations provide that large scale fishing and canning licenses shall hereafter be granted only to the white race. The same number of individual Japanese fishermen will be allowed as last year, but must remain the maximum for the future.—Aus--N.Z. Cable Assn.

WAR PLOT REVEALED. London, Jan. 3. The Evening Standard discloses a German plot on the eve of war to cripple Gibraltar with a view to establishing a naval base. It recalls the aviatien exhibition arranged at Malaga :■: the summer of 1914 in which Germany displayed great interest. Many aviators entered ostensibly as competitor? but really in readiness to bomb Gibraltar, co-operating with the Italian and Austrian fleets, which, were expeckd to quickly dispose of the French fleetItaly's refusal upset the but anyhow the British learned of tb<? intentions at Malaga.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable A*«r.. THE' SITUATION IN EGYPT. Cairo, Jan. 3 The Nationalists are displaying a greater < : <?-.oßition to co-operate with the Milr?: 1 (Jorwciision since the issue of the manifesto. The New Year festivities win: ■.»>* attended by disturbances. —Aus.-N.-4. C?ble Assn. CONS'?. .- , INOPLE'S FUTURE. * Rome, Jan. 3. The n?wr;aper Idea Nazionoli states that Italy ; - likely to secure a mandate over Constantinople in exchange for Fiume. PRISONERS IN SIBERIA. Rome, Jan. 2. In consequence of representations of the Internal Committee of the Red Cross Societies of Geneva it is understood that the Pope communicated with Japan urging the immediate repatriation of 200,000 war prisoners in Siberia. —Reuter. THE DEAD GOING HOME. Washington, Jan. 3. The French Government has granted permission for the removal to the United States of the bodies of 20,000 American soldiers buried in France outside the armv zone.

RADICALS IN THE STATES. Washington, Jan. 3. The total arrests of Radicals exceed 45,000. half of whom will probably be deported immediately. The deportation of Martens, Soviet Ambassador, is impending.

AMERICAN SHIP-BUILDING. Washington, Jan. 3. The Shipping Board output for 1919 totals fi.'229.0Cr0 deadweight tons, the vessels numbering 1159.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.

WAR AGAINST ANARCHY. Budapest. Jan. 3. Dr. Huszar. in a passionate address to the Chamber of Deputies, justifying the Government's anti-Bolshevik severities, fiaid the whole of Christendom wa« now involved in a fight against Asiatic anarchy, which was attempting to dominate the entire field of social democracy. This spiritual pest is the pupil of freethinking, in which many professors indulged during the last decade. It was impossible to believe that enlightened Western nations will ever become defenders of assassins, swindlers, and universal agitators.—United Service.