GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1920, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph--—Press Assn.—Copyright. Ilalil Pasha and Nury Pasha have been summoned to Moscow to consult Die Central Soviet. Twelve branches ol the 74th Bank ot Yokohama and the Yokohama Savings Bank have suspended payments. The former institution is heavily interested in silk and cotton transactions. It is understood that Cope's Antarctic expedition has been aetiuitely abandoned.

Italian railwaymen held up a train at Turin, persisting that it contained munitions for Poland, despite the owners' assertion that it was only carrying merchandise to Roumania. The train returned to France and will proceed to Roumania via Bavaria,

Sir A. H- Goldfinch, in cabling from Sydney to the Graziers' Association his grateful acknowledgment of the latter's approval of the Imperial wool contract, adds, "English administrative charges are less than one-fifth of one per oent. The sales are a record of economy."

The One Big Union Conference at Perth decided that their ranks shall be open to Maoris and Xe°Toes, but not. to Asiatics. It was also decided that there should be no discrimination between workers receiving wages and those receiving salaries.

Mr. Lacey, secretary of the Marylebone Cricket Club, declares there Is no foundation for the liaily Chronicle's report that the Australian Board of Control will choose only players for test matches who actually fought in the war.

The ex-ICaiser i» cutting patterns of new suits for his own use. He is said to excel at the job, and a newspaper remarks that it is unfortunate that Wilhelm missed his vocation.

The Japanese War Office has received the Chinese answer to Japan's offer regarding Shantung. The answer is considered equivalent to a refusal of the offer. It is expected that the status quo will be permitted to continue.

According to the Times' Paris correspondent M. Millerand ordered Unionist State officials to withdraw from the Labor Confederation on account of the latter's revolutionary character. The Government is legislating to give officials rights of combination, but forbidding membership of an industrial federation.

The Armenians' plight is desperate. They are fighting Turks, Tartars and Bolsheviks. The Government has mobilised all males between the ages of 18 and 40, but arms are insuflicient and food negligible. Starvation is certain unless the American Relief Committee helps. The British remain passive onlookers.

With reference to the New South Wales raihvaymen's demand for double pay during the Prince's visit, the Commissioners declined to promise the payment beforehand, hut after the -visit were prepared to make adequate additional payment for any ascertained extra duties incurred. A deputation of railwaymen interviewed Mr. Dooley, who promised that if the Commissioners refused to pay he would have the amount placed on the Estimates to cover the payment- In regard to the railway policy generally he added that the Government had submitted their desires to the Commissioners. Whether the policy of the Commissioners was going to be in keeping with the policy of the Government he was unable to say, hit he gave an assurance that the policy of tile Labor Tarty, as declared at the elections, was going to be carried out.