GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegttph.—Pre«» Asia.—Copyright The Japanese reply to the American Note protesting against the occupation of Saghalien has been received at Washington. It examines at length the whole question of the Japanese Siberian policy. The publication of both Notes has been deferred. The Farmer-Labor candidate for the United States Presidency, Mr. Farley P. Christenson, has cabled to Mr. W. Adamson, chairman of the British Labor Conference, congratulating British workers on their determination to resist military intervention against Russia. The Zealandic has arrived at New York from New Zealand with 3000 tons of frozen beef, 150,000 carcases of lamb and mutton., 20,000 tons of wool, 200 boxes of butter, .and 1050 crates of cheese. The vessel is bound for Liverpool. There have been four cases, one fatal, of bubonic plague in Paris. Precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease. A terrific explosion occurred in a factory at Luton (England) where ammunition was being broken down. Over a million rounds of cartridges were destroyed, and the explosions continued for three hours. No one was killed, but six were injured. Owing to a crisis in the Cornish tin mining industry thirty miners have sailed for New Zealand under a three" years' engagement to a mining company in New Zealand. Zinovieff, addressing the Congress of the third Internationale at Moscow, declared it had not" any use for Socialist pacificists in its membership. The mobilisation of Czecho-Slovaki-an troops has been greatly accelerated during the last few days. They are concentrating at various points on the Hungarian frontier. Leading London and provincial fruit and vegetable firms have amalgamated under the name of the Fruit Producers' Exchange, with a capital of £1,125,000. They also propose to establish subsidiary companies in America and Australia.

The King contemplates the erection of a memorial on Gallipoli to the lost legion of Norfolks, which mysteriously disappeared. The majority of the men worked on the Royal estates at Sandringham. The Sunday Express states that a British syndicate, including shipowners and bankers, has bought out three German, Austrian, and Hungarian companies controlling ninety per cent of the shipjjjng interests on the Danube, comprising several hundred steamers, barges, and tugs. Lord Burnham, speaking at Toronto, 'advocated the exchange of newspaper editors between the United States and England. He said that several British journals had already approved (the principle, and resolutions furthering it had been passed. Lord Burnham concluded by saying that a plan for the exchange of editors between Aiistralia and England and Canada was likely to be carried out.

The Chinese Government has announced the new Cabinet personnel. The Ministers of War and the Interior belong to the Progressives; the Ministers of Communications, and Finance belong to ihe old Cabinet group; and the portfolios of the Navy and Foreign Affairs are livid by men not attached to any party. It is reported from Winnipeg that more than 200 American manufacturers established branch factories in Cauada in 1910, including makers of chemicals, mot-or-cars, toilet preparations, metal and wood-working tools. Walter Winans, while driving a trotter in a race at Parsloe's Park (London) collapsed and called out, asking bystanders to stop the 'horse, but, before it could be done, he fell to the ground. He was picked up dead.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.