GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

■By T«legr*ph.—Press Amii.—Copyright.* '' Lord French presented Ypres vftfcji the Military Cross. King Albert ifi*; m attendance, and placed wreath* W the graves of British soldier*. f ' The State Government declined to «V sist meeting the expenses of sendfe* houth Australian repreeentatives in «,« Olympic team. f- • Washington reports that, a lacfc;«g transportation lias prevented IS? liquidation of a large portion al $m year's wheat crop, and threaten* wlteffl lay movement this year. ' V; Georgia has rejected ■ overtures jtrsife Azerbaijan, and an advance agaimt tu< latter is likely. A defensive agreemM* 1 between Georgia and Armenia la* tieu* arranged. , - > According to return* of the Au* '" tralian VViieat Board export contiaew.'? included 810,000 bushels to. the Uew,' Zealand Government, which ore still;to be shipped, ' y Munich Royalists, numbering & tor of a million, have issued an election rf manifesto promising a Monarchy oh th« "i basis of a plebiscite and the restoration;'of constitutional independence to' Bavaria within the framework of til* t German Empire. ' , ,^s The Berlin Vorwaerts report* drt*'" Government troops raided the office of : General von Lettow. They also \ large qunntities of arms, munitions, and \ aeroplane parts secreted, on aeveral et- ■ tates in the neighborhood. . ' The Australian Press Association learns that satisfactory assurances have now been received from Tchitcherin «• ; garding. the safety of the remnant* pf Denikin's army in the Crimea. Peace negotiations will be opened immediately" between Wrangle's representative*. and' : J the Bolsheviks. * ' i'\

The Colonial Office has transmitted t« \ the Dominions a proposal of the Indian '< Government for passport reciprocity respecting Bolsheviks, Sinn ' Feinera, ' I.YV.W.'s, and other undesirables, with ' a view of preventing migration pending permission of the countries to which . they are desiring to proceed. Britain rejected the proposal, but the Crown Colonies and Protectorates agreed. The British Government intend*, to ■; safegnavd British interests and the ae- ' possibility of petroleum supplies, and la taking steps to make the army and ' navy independent of United' States suplilies in any future war. It regard* President Wilson's report as antiBritish in tone and unnecessarily the- ■ atrlcal, and characterises the Standard •■ Oil Company's complaint as not fair ,; play and peculiarly audacious from the <: viewpoint of the ruthless policy that ' company has pursued for 40 years. The quarterly return of marriage*, births and deaths for England and 'j Wales shows that the births numbered .■ 271,082, which is a record; the death* ' were 137,037, of which 4037 were due. to influenza; tho infant mortality wai,' SS per 1000, which is 32 per 1000 below the average of tho ten preceding first' quarters. There "were 280,700 births and 137,022 deaths registered in the '': three months ending December 31 in the United Kingdom, The increase of population is therefore 133,738. Marriages during the same quarter number- ■ ed 235,4f10. '. i Professor Dunstan, at the Imperial Institute (lxmdon), tested numerous ' substitutes for spruce pulp. He states : that the most hopeful is esparto grass '. from Tunis. It is excellent, but needs ■'■ combining with other materials mixed with chemicals and absolutely pure "' water. South Africn * produces the ' light sort of grasses abundantly, but wattle bark waste is far better and makes good, paper, bleaching welt. It i is suggested that consumers should form - : a producing association similar to that .; for cotton-growing. The Mine-workers' Union at Johan- .< nesburg passed a resolution demanding-.; tho immediate nationalisation of all '} gold mines with control by tho worker*,' ,J ' -J

The war criminals mentioned in tile 9 list recently presented to Germany:'jH have been summoned by the Berlin pub» ,: ?;M lie prosecutor to appear before tile Bvp. ''* M preme Court at Leipzig. jjfl The Council of the* League of S»- 9 tions has requested President Wilson to « convene an assembly of the League in 9 November at Brussels. Geneva is not jM yet ready tr> receive the assembly- dH The British hre,wers' exhibition in holding the usual colonial wine com- '9 petitions. Entries close on October 10- . ffl