GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 July 1920, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

I By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. The New South Wa»aa revenue for the year amounted, to £28,500,000 against £23,500,000 in the previous year, an increase of £5,000,000. Notwithstanding thin there will probably be a deficit of over £1,000,000. A bomb exploded at the gate cf theJapanese Diet in which were two-thirds of the members. Slight damag® was done, bu.t there were no casualties. An hour previously a bomb wag thrown at a street car. Two persons were injured, The popular theory is that fanatics, enflamed by speeches blaming the Premier for the 'Nikolaievsk affair, sought to assassinate him. The French Foreign Affairs Committee has reported that the Vatican accepted the separation of Church and State as un fait accompli. It declared that there was not the slightest desire to interfere in French politics. The way is therefore clear for a resumption of diplomatic relations. Le Journal (Paris) says that the German delegates at Spa will inform the Allies that Germany is unable to pay more than 2,000,000,000 marks owing to the Treaty depriving her of certain sources of revenue, including her fleet colonies, and mineral resources. Telegrams from the Polish front indicate a general retreat of the Poles on the entire front from Vllna to Camineta and Godolsk. A Moscow wireless claims success everywhere. Labor disorders, with incident rioting and looting of food shops, are occurring in the industrial districts of Shanghai, owing to the mounting price of rice. It is estimated that only four days' rice supply is available. Mr. Lloyd George goes to Spa to-day. It is understood Britain is standing firm on absolute German disarmament. Lord d'Abcrnon has gone to Berlin as British Ambassador. Krassin is returning to Moscow to explain the hitch in the trade negotiations and seek fresh powers with some prospects of reaching a commercial agreement with Britain. The Empire Development Parliamentary Committee is bringing pressure to bear on the Minister of Health to permit Boards of Guardians to all otallowances for the upkeep of orphan boys to to oversea schemes for the emigration of children.