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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9289, 10 August 1920, Page 5

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| The London newspapers have been | watching the week-end (railway traffic I sinco'the fares were increased. They . agree that there has been- a" considerable reduction in the number.of pas- «: sengers, especially in .the first-claSB carriages; which axe;-almost-empty. • . The greatest concentration', of ■ sea power in the' history., of the United States Navy will occur .by the conjunction of the ■ Atlantic and Pacific Fleets next January,' probably in the -vicinity of the Gulf of. Panama^ ' for winter manoeuvres. '■.'.'. The Cunard" liner Aquitania, which, sailed from New York on July 31, created a new record. She covered the • last 129 miles to Cherbourg oh Friday in *three hours forty-two minutes, an average of 27.4 knots, or ,31 land miles. .

An entirely new principle in international law has been established in the Permanent International. Court under the League of Nations. *It provides that a State may be cited before the Court, judgment going by default in tlie case of non-appearance. In an interview, Vice-President Marishjal'ni said that the Democratic twothirds majority ■ in the Senate could not be attained even if the Democrates wefeM? victorious in /e^ery vacancy. Therefore it was impossible to secure the adoption of the Peace Treaty.