GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

________ By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—CopyrlEht. Denipsey and Carpentier will meet at Monte Carlo in December. The Sydney city council voted £3OOO to entertain the Prince of Wales, The first instalment of the hundred gift aeroplanes has arrived at Melbourne. The Vatican is apprehensive of the Jewish predominance in Palestine and desires that the Zionists be confined within their just limits. The British Ministry state that shipping accounts reveal a deficiency of 101) millions while the air service confesses to have overpaid one branch by 8 millions. The Supreme Council has, for an unexplained reason, forbidden the publication of the League of Nations' memorandum concerning the Armenian mandate, and the Times proceeds to publish it. The Victorian Government is introducing a Bill in the House of Representatives providing for the representation of the Northern Territory in the Federal Parliament and for an elective council in Papua, which is not given representation in Parliament. The United States Chamber of Commerce has appointed a commission to proceed to Europe to investigate the resumption of trade between the United States and Soviet Russia. A massacre of Japanese at Nikolaevsk, in Eastern Siberia, has been reported to the State Department- Troops and hundreds of civilians are reported to be wiped out. A British cavalry outpost repulsed an Arab raid near Galilee. Afterwards while destroying the rebels' ammunition the squadron was almost surrounded and driven towards the base. Meanwhile a neighboring garrison experienced a hostile concentration of the Haurani Arabs, and only prevailed after a charge of Indian Lancers. The New York Times' Vladivostock correspondent states that the Japenese command at Vladivostock has made new demands upon the Provisional Government, that Russian armed forces must evacuate a zone of 30 kilometres, wherever Japanese troops are stationed. These demands virtually mean the liquidation of the Russian armed forces in far Eastern Siberia, The Danish elections resulted in a • great defeat of the late Government resembling the defeat of Mr. Asquith's party at the last British elections. The result shows the King's accuracy in declaring the former Government did not possess the confidence of the people. Christenden, the leader of the Moderate Left, has been summoned to form a Government. The Moderates and Conservatives secured 70 scats against 50 by the Social Democrats and RadicalsThe United States Senate adopted a system of voluntary naval training for civilians, and has authorised Mr. Daniels to establish summer schools and appropriated 3".'),000 dollars for the purpose of carrying on the training. The Senate has also appropriated nine million dollars for naval aviation purposes and authorised an increase of four million dollars to complete aviation and destroyer tenders. Areording to advices reaching Washington from San Salvador, Estrada Cabrera has been deposed as President of Guatemala and i 3 being held by the Provisional Government for investigation. The same advices declare that 800 men, women and children were killed at Guatemala in the recent fighting. The British Embassy at Washington has advised the State Department that it is authorised officially to deny the reports that the British Government is rebating to British shipowners the tolls paid for passages through the Panama Canal. This information is conveyed to the State Department because it has been reported that some American shippers accused the British Government of rebating tolls, thus giving them a dis- I tinct advantage over American shippers.