GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 May 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received May £O, 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 19. President Harding has signed the Immigration Bill.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

DISUNION AMONGST STEM'ARDS. Received May 20, 8.5 p.m. London, May 19. A meeting at Liverpool of chief and second stewards on ocean-going liners decided to break away from the union and form a new association, with the assistance of the ship-owners.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

TYPHUS AMONG IMMIGRANTS. New York, May 19. Seventeen hundred Immigrants have been removed from Ellis Island and quarantined, following a death from typhus. FRANCE AND THE VATICAN. Rome, May 18. The resumption of the long ruptured diplomatic relations between France and the Vatican has been marked by the appointment of M. Jounart as French Ambassador and Monsignor Cerretti as Papal Nuncio. DISARMAMENT SCHEMES. Washington, May 18. According to a Chicago message the Rev. C. H. McFarland, general secretary of the Congress on the Reduction of Armaments, which is meeting here, appealed to the American clergy to do al! in their power to crush any and every sentiment against England. He declared that England was conservative to a superlative degree and was the great balance-wheel and great governor. Progressive Republican Senators followed up the victory on the disarmament amendment to the Navy Bill with a successful attack on increased appropriations. The Senate refused by a vote of 31 to 39 to approve the million dollars appropriation for recruiting recommended by the Naval Committee. ANOTHER BILL FOR GERMANY. Amsterdam, May 19. It is officially announced that Germany has declined to pay indemnities for damages inflicted on Ihitch subjects in France and Belgium during the war, but has agreed to make investigations if the Dutch Government produces evidence substantiating the charges.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.