GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

Br Ttl«ir*Dli.—Press Assn.— CoDTtlgfct. The Mexican Embassy at Washington has announced that troops were dispatched to Lower California for a campaign 'to subdue the rebel Governor, Cantux. Fighting is expected in a week's time. Chinese and Japanese residents will maintain their neutrality. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

Five captured German warships have arrived at New York. They will he exhibited for twelve months and then sunk. They comprise a Dreadnought, a cruiser, and three destroyers. The Soviet and the Letts have concluded a peace treaty, which will probably be signed at Riga. ■ The Italian Chamber has ratified the Saint Germain Treaty. ' Th§ Italian Government has Invited M- Ram&ciotti to address .the principal Italian chambers of commerce on "Australian resources and industries." M. Kamaciotti also attends a meeting of the council of the British Chamber of Commerce of Italy at Leghorn in Octpber. The United States Railway Board awards increases amounting to 30,000,000 dollars to 75,000 American railway express .workers, being retrospective to May 1. Vladivostock reports that the Government has received advices to the effect that Japanese residents at Okhotsk, a marine Siberian town on the Sea of Okhotsk, have been massacred and the town burned. The Turkish Treaty has been signedMoscow wireless states that Miss Sylvia Pankhurst passed through Petrograd to attend the Communists' Congress. She said that the efforts of England to strangle the Soviet were doomed to failure, owing to the intelligent attitude of the British workers. Liquor smuggling into the United States from Canada has reached such proportions that it has developed into a largo illegal traffic in other commodities. The Customs service is wholly inadequate to meet the situation. A small army is essential to patrol .the isolated coastal spots, -whence there is smuggling from incoming ships, and the frontier regions.