GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 October 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Prem Asm.—Copyright. Pekin is politically quiet, and nothing is known there to justify the report* ot any crisis, actual or impending. A financial crisis Is causing gome uneasiness, and the result of the consortium innings in the United State* are M"l watched with interest. The Brazilian Parliament has adopted measures making Albert King oi tjii Belgians a Marshal of the Brwglta Army, and raising the Brazilian Legation at Brussels to the rank of an ra&Mtiy. The King and Queen have left BioXor Belgium. A Moscow wireless message state* that the Roumanian Premier and TcMtx cherin are exchanging telegrams with a view to opening peace negotiations, London, Oot 15. General Rama'ciotti is going to Rtme. After a preliminary discussion with th* Italian Government he purposes to d»* lay further commercial investigations pending a settlement of the industrial situation. The Russo-Finnlsh peace has been shrfw ed. "~ Herr. St. Hamer who has been acting as German Chaise d'Affairs in London, has presented his credentials to the King 43 first German Minister. * Two (Russians were arrested at :.heGar« due Lyon (Paris), bearing false bottomed trunks with 22,000,000 roubles in bank notes, the importation of which is illegal because they are really worthless. ' The United States §ecr«taiy of th» Treasury (Mr. Houston) has rejected the farmers' demand for a revival of the war finance corporation for the purpose of financing American farm Mr. Houston stated that tho Treasury had no money to lend to persons wish* kg to hold products for higher pTlees. The sensational fall in all quotation* for oil shares in Vienna continues, ow* ing to a heavy fall iti.Roumaniaa oil cow sequent on American competition. A Mesopotamia communique states that the column from Nasireyeh tulmtne* * ing to relieve Samawah, ip now 14 miiy from Samawah, after fighting a force of tribesmen. It is believed tiu» worst troubles in Mesopotamia an over* The Japanese War Office announces 4 discovery for utilising voteaai* irMi oxide sand in the manufacture of steel, thus making Japan independent la event of an emergency. The Matin states that the chairman the Standard Oil Company has «Ti rived with the intention of startixc a French branch. This is expected to effect a reduction in prices. There were enthusiastic scenes at OSford, when women were admitted to grees for the first time in the history of the university. Cambridge is still debating the possibility of giving women degrees.