GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telesraph.—Press Assn. —Coiiyrlght. A message from Buenos Ayres says the Argentine Parliament has approved an appropriation of five million pesos to send food to Vienna. The Berliner Tageblatt states that, owing to the high prices of food and clothing, a mob at Treves pillaged shops and warehouses. The police were overpowered and appealed to the French troops to assist in restoring order. Arrangements are in progress to reduce prices. '

The Paris Matin says that Dorden, the Saparatist, was kidnapped opposite his residence at Wiesbaden in June 1010, by three armed men and carried off in a motor car to an unknown destination in unoccupied Germany, The King, at Buckingham Palace, received the Bishops attending the Lambeth conference. French troops>- 'repulsed Sherifian troops a,nd 'entered Damascus. » The Premier of New South Wales (Mr. Storey) speaking at the Travellers' Banquet favored action by .the Federal Parliament in increasing salaries and hinted that a State increase was probable. Courtney, who won the Aerial Derby around London, made a bad lauding, his machine hitting the ground heavily and j turned a somersault. The pilot crawled out uninjured. Hawker, who was third, ■reached the aerodrome in the handicap, but was disqualified for taking the wi'ong course.

The, Council of the League of Nations will meet at San Sebastian 011 July 301 to consider economic measures to be taken against the States which are warring in violation of the obligations which tlicy accepted as members. Persian gendarmes defeated a Bolshevik Jangali force and drove them back to their boats on the Caspian Sea. The Bolsheviks re-embarked and departed. In north-west Persia a party of 200 Jnngali tribesmen fired 011 a British patrol midway between Resht and Manjil. A Chicago message states that the. executives of the Roalroad Brotherhood 'have completed the order for a countryside referendum on the Federal Labor Board's wage award, strongly advising against a strike and intimating.that S4 per cent., of the employees had agreed through their representatives to accept the award. Ottawa lias nrd-red the unconditional admission of the live Australian sailors' off the Canadian Importer. They will ba released wad gaid off.