GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 May 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Freu Asm.—Copytlebt. The United States' corporations' war profitß, after the deduction of heavy war taxes, were seventy-five per cent, greater than the average peace time profits. At the Pilgrims' Society dinner at New York Sir Auckland Geddes said that British foreign policy was inspired by a desire to seek peace, to extend the boundaries of freedom, to improve the lot of the oppressed, and to increase the material prosperity of the world. These were the prinoiples by which he, as a British representative, was guided. It is announced that an international conference liasr been convened of the League of Nations to meet before the end of the year to elaborate a measure guaranteeing the freedom of communications and transport between individual members of the League. It is covenanted that the conference will establish a permanent organisation of international communications for the combination of the efforts of individual countries, which organisation is essential for the re-establishment of commercial exchanges and the economic restoration of the worldMr. Theodore (Premier of Queensland) is arranging to visit Scandinavia and Finland where he will meet leading Socialists, Prom there he will go to Moscow where he will be the guest. of the Soviet Government-