GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

Soiejmpli.—Press Aasa—Cf»jrl£&; The steamer Main sailed from Sydney on Saturday for Rotterdam, via New Zealand, with another batch' of deported Germans on board. The German Government intends to demand 925,000,000 marks from France lor damagt- during French occupation of the Maine districts.

The title of the Duke of York has been conferred on Prince Albert, the second son of the King. The French airman Eoussoiltrot Bernard flew for 1-159 minutes —a world's endurance record. The aviator encircled Tampes and Orleans at a speod of sixty miles per hour. It is reported that two oil wells have been discovered near Bonneville and Hantesavoie (France). Odo is 450 metres deep and is estimated to yield '20,000 gallons a minute. Paris newspapers state that. Brusiloff lias been arrested by the Bolsheviks owing to heavy losses in his recent fighting. t Owing to differences with Mr. Colby, the United States Secretary of State, Mr, Polk lias resigned the UnderSecretary ship. His health is' given as the ostensible reason for his resignation, Mr. Polk is the third official to resign from the State Department during the present year.

A man named Bogot, dirty and ragged, was arrested on a roadside near l'avis gleefully counting bank-notefi valued at .over 100,000 francs. Bogot protested that he was a marine pensioner, and had'won most of his money during the three clays at Epsom, chiefly on the Derby. The police investigated and found this to be true, and released him. British and American gunboats have been ordered to proceed to the Yangtse river (China!, to protect foreign shipping from bandits. Owing to the 'ui(M'ltlcd conditions the captains ot' vessels are afraid to unload cargo and passengers, and therefore decided that British and American vessels would carry armed guards.