GENERAL GABLE NEWS
(Per Press Association Copyright.) (Received' December 11, 8.45 a.m.) *, (United Service.) LONDON, December 9.
J. P. Coates and Company's annual report recommends a dividend of 17$ per cent. ', It states that the profits of over £4,000^000 do not indicate the immediate reduction in cotton prices.
(Reuter.) j DELHI, December 9.' A banking, amalgamation is fore^ shadowed by the offer of the Penin,sular and Oriental Banking Corpora-tion-to purchase ordinary shares of-the Allahabad Bank conditionally upon tho acceptance oy holders of not, less than ,75 per cci. c. of the shares. Holders are also g;/en the option to receive shares in the Peninsular and Oriental Banking Corporation. '; _ NEW YORK, Dec. 10. The ' impasse between v the United States and Japan regarding control of the cable stations- in Yap lias developed jsuch serious proportions that the State Department lias laid the situation officially before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Officials characterise the situation as most delicate.' The Under-Secretaiy of State (Mr Davis) will explain the controversy before the executive session of the Committee.
' Mr Kahn (California),' addressing the U.S.A. House of; Representatives, said the people of the Pacific Coast object only to large numbers of Japanese entering their States. There was no objection to the immigration of professional men, financiers, a.nd students. The question was not one of racial prejudice. Mi" Kahn declared that Japanese and American .relations' were kept, unsettled' 1 by Japanese agitators seeking to stir,-up hatred against the United States.,,. He warned them that continued . ..agitation ' .might lead to war.' ' ■!.■'■'•' ; "'■
PARIS, Dec. 10. The Armenian Minister of War proclaimed a Soviet republic at Erivan on December 3. Practically the whole country announced its adherence to Bolshevism.
LONDON, December 9. Sir James Allen has cabled to the 'King explaining that he is New Zealand's only representative at the League of Nations meeting and is, therefore, unable to attend the Royal dinner to meet the Prince of Wales.
(Received Dec. 11, 2.10 p.m.) .;'...• BUCHAREST, Dec. 10; A bomb thrown, in the Roumanian Senate killed the Minister for Public Works ■ and Bishop Radica. -SeVeral were" dangerously injured, and 'many slightly. ..•.■:■ : . .;"•'
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9390, 11 December 1920, Page 5
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