GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. The Japanese War Office announces a discovery tor utilising volcanic iron oxide sand in the manufacture of steel, thus making Japan independent in the event of an emergency. A message from Hamburg states the fire, on the Victoria Louise was confined to the refrigerating room. The vessel is not one of those to be surrendered to the Allies. The Chinese Government officially states there is no truth in alarmist Shanghai reports of a Monarchist movement in North China. The situation is normal. The Council of the League of Nations meets at Brussels on October 20. M. Tittoni submits a plan for international control of monopolies of raw materials. The Council will also draw up a programme for limiting the armaments of various small nations seeking admission to the league. Sensational charges are being investigated at Chicago, in which it is declared that a large number of prominent men, including prohibition officers, arn involved in illicit liquor deals throughout the country, totalling 3,000,000 dollars. Their activities are said to extend to New York, Cleveland, and other large cities. It is reported from Copenhagen that the leaders of the social revolutionaries in Sprinidovna and Tchernov, have formed an anti-Bolshevik Government, and that Nijni Novorod and other towns are joining the movement, demanding a constitution and a national assembly. The Consortium delegates at New York announced that they would welcome co-operation of local Chinese capital in the development of China's public enterprises, railways, et cetera. A resolution to that effect will be communicated to Peking in order that the Government and people may know that the Consortium will encourage suph cooperation. The Consortium at Die present time has not any immediate loan before it. but is occupied with organisation. The loan question will come up later, possibly in the near future, lint only upon the application of China herself. The United States Navy Department has issued confidential correspondence regarding the killing of TTaytian natives. to which reference was made in October of last year. Major-General P.arnett, ex-Commandant of the United States Marines, reported that at a court-martial the evidence showed that, there had been indiscriminate killing of natives by American marines for some time. General liaenett stated that sonic of the marines were sadly Jacking in the sense of right and justice. Stringent orders were issued to prevent a repetition of the abuses, The American newspapers aTe* amazed that the report has been kept secret for so long. Th? American-Japan Society at Tokio has cabled to Mr. Frank Vanderlip. the American financier, as follows: 'if anti-Japanese agitation in the United States is carried too far the outcome will be hard to foretell. The anti-Japanese notation in California threatens to estrange the Japanese and American peoples." General Trenchant, addressing the Air Conference, said thnt it was obvious that tlie Air Force on a financial basis which peace time could afford could'not create a reserve personnel and maintain a stock of material requisite for wnr. They must be dependent on civil developments of commercial aviation and eo-operate in n manner something akin to tli« navy and mercantile marine.