GENERAL CABLES.
General Wrangel greatly improved his situation in the Crimea during the last two months, hanging mutineers, profiteers, and thieves, including officials. He also dismissed fifty field officers.
Railway strikers at Bombay rioted and damaged rails and signals and waylaid trains. The military dispersed the strikers. Twelve thousand are out.
Paris reports that a cyclone in the Oise district damaged railways, buildings, and crops to the value of £IOO,OOO. The cyclone nearly obliterated the villages of Fontaine and Bonneleau.
Mr. Milward, general manager of the Pacific Cable Board, announces that the Board is considering the duplication of the cable from Vancouver to Norfolk Island. The cost Will be in the vicinity of £4,000,000, but it will not be possible to manufacture the cable till late in mi.
The United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee refused, by eleven rotes to four, to accept the President'; Armenian mandate proposal. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives rejected, by ten votes to nine, a resolution endorsing Irish independence.
Krassin, head of the Russian trade envoys, has arrived at London, and joined his colleagues. The delegation is ostensibly negotiating with the Allied Economic Council, but is suspected to be seeking recognition of the Soviet. The envoys are accompanied by 22 experts, secretaries, and others- Krassin is : described as an engineer closely associated with German business interests before 1917.
President Wilson received Sir Auckland Geddes (British Ambassador to the United States), Who said it was the nnanimous wish and hope of the British peoples wherever they might be that tlie relation of friendship with the people of the United States should be strengthened and developed.
The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives favorably reported on a Bill authorising President Wilson to appoint a commission to treat with Canada on the subject of the tetter's embargo on print-paper and pulp wood. It is expected the Bill will shortly be passed. The committee pointed out that Canada's action was virtually forcing American paper manufacturers to move into Canada and emphasised the fact that, while Canada was within her rights in enforcing the embargo, which was working hardships ort the United States, Congress could pass an embargo on the exportation of coal, sulphur, and dyes to Canada, which would work hardships on Canada.
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1920, Page 5
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