GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Asj»Copyr^W,' Tho United States Shipping Board has offered for sale to the highest bidder 92 steel freighters, varying from 1000 to 9777 ttma. According to a dispatch from Tokio, the Japanese Government is extending financial support to silk, cotton and sugar industries, in order to prevent a serious business depression. The British newspaper proprietors announce a lock-out unless the Typographical Association imposes discipline on the rebellious compositors in Manchester and Liverpool. They have accordingly given notice, that, unless the compositors return to work to-morrow, a fortnight's notice will lie tendered on Saturday to all members of the Typographical Association in England outside London. Reports from the Honan, Shantung find South Chihli provinces state that, owing to the failure of crops at least twenty million people are facing famine. Thousands are starving. Whole families, on the verge of starvation, committed suicide. Parents are selling children for a few dollars. Animals aro being killed, owing to lack of fodder. The inhabitants are fleeing to more favored districts. The most serious famine for over forty years is predicted during the coming winter. in connection with the Bresiau incident, the French Government demands that Germany rebuild the Consulate, pay tlie French ollicials an indemnity of 100,000 francs, punish the guilty and salute the French flag with full military honors. Two persons were killed and 15 injured at Rosario (Argentine) by the police, who fired into trades unionists who were protesting before the Court of Appeal against the trial of two workmen accused of killing a policeman during labor disorders. A dispatch from Canton states that it is understood that the rival Chinese forces an? massing for a decisive battle to determine the possession of Canton and the control of the Southern Government. Bandit bands meantime are looting without hindrance. One band has penetrated behind tho Ivwanghi army, which is advancing against the revolutionists at Waichow, where a final battle is expected.