GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

By Telejrrtph.—Presr Asjn—CopyrWit. A wireless message received at Sydney 1 , from 11.M.5. "Renown reports that a. westerly sale was encountered on Saturday night. Seas Taged as high as tW navigation bridge, breaking window*, Hooding cabins, and damaging the Prince's launch. The .Renown is expeoti; ed' to arrive nt Albany to-night. _ j , There has just come to light a secret, memorandum of tiie German official, commission regarding French war dam'' ages. The document assesses the totall amount payable liy Germany to France as 7.228,(1(10,(100 gold marks, leta 31<V ■ 000,000 for German reconstruction and! public improvements. The reckons the amount payable apart from the war zone as 50,000,000 marks; also the damages to churches, cathedrals, and public buildings as 75,000,000 marks. The Newport correspondent of the New Vijvl; Times states that the Ameri ca Cup defence committee has that the Resolute will race the Shuni rook. The Resolute won seven out a eleven races with the Vanite, which i) one of the contenders for the'defence ft the cup. Revolutionary extremists, Including laborers at the port, incited ,500 Be? saglieri nt Anconn, under orders to pro reed to Albania, to mutiny. The mutt neers barricaded themselves in the hat racks, turning machine-guns on the loya troops, who, hurrying up, surrounded th< building. A flerco battle ensued fo! several hours with many casualties. Order was ffradually restored. Anarch ists at I'iombino caused food riot* looting of residences and shopß. Han) grenades were freely used until troopi by volleys, killed and wounded many. According to a dispatch received & Honolulu from Tokio, the Japanese: Ck vernment has decided to create legieU tive assemblies in the Korean provinc as a preliminary step towards gfag ing Korea self government. On Koreans will be eligible for election t the assemblies. , X Five students liave been arrested j Tokio in connection with an alleged M) of Japanese war maps in Siberia; is understood that the maps are alrw< in the possession of the eoi mand. • • . Douglas Fairbanks An'd Mary PJ( ford have .decided to tnak« an touy of