GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyrletit. The J. P. Morgan Company lias issued a summary of the Chinese' Consortium agreement. The Consortium will last five years, unless terminated sooner liv the majority of the parlies. Loans only to the Chinese Government or provincial Governments will he granted by all banking groups within the Consortium, and will be on an equal basis, each undertaking to liquidate its own engagements. Eighty ships carrying 120,000 refugees from Crimea, have anchored at the entrance to the Sea of Mamora. Forty thousand will proceed lo Lemuos. The Canadian Government has prohibited the importation of horse hides, cattle hides, and sheepskins from Europe. Asia, Africa, South America, New Zealand, and Australia with the object of preventing the introduction of animals' disease into Canada. Various organisations in the. United Kingdom representing 3,000.000 ex-ser-men. including the Officers' Association, are uniting shortly in one league on n non-political basis. They intend, besides emphasising their own claims on the nation as championed by Lord Haig and endorsed by the King, to perpetuate the memory of the fallen. Mr. Lloyd George will be the guest of the Constitutional Club at dinner on December 3. M. Leygues (French President) is shortly interviewing Mr. Lloyd George in London regarding Greece and other matters. The engagement is announced from Lucerne of the Crown Prince of Eoumania, to Princess Helen of Greece.