GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1920, Page VII

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright,

Mr. Austin Chamberlain (British Chancellor) announced that the Government has decided, in the interests of national economy and with a view to hastening a return to normal trade conditions, to end the bread subsidy before (the beginning of another financial year At present the subsidy was about 5d on the quarter loaf. Threepence of this was to be transferred from the taxpayer to the consumer next month and whatever balance remained according to the price of wheat would be transferred by the close of the financial year. Aili.N.Z. Cable Assn..

A Moscow wireless message deplores great losses by forest fires which are destroying villages 'and valuable fuel. It urges the people to combat the fire 3, .which are inflicting a severe blow on the already shaky common economic situation. The message liinttf that many of the fires may be due to acts of the Soviet's enemies. The leader of the Persian Democrats raided the German Consulate in Teheran, carried off a quantity of arms, and arrested the Consul, Schuite. The Government has ordered the Charge D'Affaires in Teheran to make a protest as a consequence of the inoident. Students in Berlin universities urge tAe withdrawal of Persian students The American Note regarding Saghalin has started a re-opening of the Nikolaievsk investigation in Japan. Viscount Hara succeeded in forestalling the Opposition party by appointing a committee from his own supporters. It is understood that the United States Navy Department has contracted for 00 per cent of the oil needed by the Pacific fleet.

Senator Jones addressed at Tacoma a meeting 6f shipping men who protested against the Jones Shipping Act. He .said that the law will not be modified in any way unless its actual eration resulted in positive and tangible injury to American trade.