GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 185, 1 May 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press Associatioii-Copyrinh-t j Tim Australian Sengte ■ Tins read tue Immigration Bill a third-, time. . ■ • j

A San Francisco message says it is <lerstood that three million dollars in; gold will shortly be sent-to China.

Austrian goods valued at .£IOO,OOO, con- - -j sisting of furniture, pianos, jewellery, j fancy Roods, clothing, machinery, and tools, have arrived in London for sale. ; A Router message from Cairo states 5 that five hundred Bedouins were engag- : ed in fighting at Bisan on April 22. j Their casualties are estimated at 120. j 'British reinforcements .have been eent. • The Stale Government has increased ti'.e railway fares and freights in Vic- : toria by 12-J per cent. This, increase, is ;j estimated to produce an additional mil- i lion of revenue a year. S Mr. AV. M. Hushes (Federal Premier) i promised a deputation of- the Olympic • Games Council that the Government 0 : would gr:rtit £1000 towards the expenses j of a team sent- to the Olympic Games. Several recent raids by Arabs in Pales- . j tine have necessitated punitive measures. ~ Cavalry charges by the garrison at Senakh drove off a large force of Arabs .; and recovered a quantity of loot. , A Tokio message reports that the ■ ■ Japanese Foreign Office has instructed , Mr. Obata. Minister-at Peking, to again y open negotiations with China for tbs return of Shantung. > .« It is reported by a Paris' message that .] important phosphate deposits have been ; discovered in Morocco, and are estimated .j to exceed 10,000,000,000 tons. An Anglo- I Italian-syndicate is acquiring a conces- j sion. . ' J Mr. Harold Clapp, vlce-presiddntof tlio | Saint Louis Railway Company, Umted . vj States, has .been appointed Chief wail-, .; way Commissioner of Victoria, ill sue-' U; cession to Mr. E. C. Normuii, who is A • retiring. • ■ 1 1 ' ' A Renter message from London states ,■] that a seaplane crashed in the sea at; '! Felixstowe. Two officers were ._j£scuetl, ~ but they were injured. The engineer anil two British officers and a Portuguese of. ficer were drowned. / ;- Twenty Russians who entered England without' passports have been deported. Scotland Yard is systematically searchins the Ea-'t End of London, and is ar--1 resting alian undesirables. .Most of ; : them are communists. , i it the annual meeting of shareholders 1 \ - of the Ciinard' Line, the chairman, Sir. i • Alfred Booth: .said that the Anuitania J whs beins converted for. oil-fuel, lwo 1 l vessels recently launched, and eleven j - others now being constructed, would all j 3 be oil-burners. . ~ J

i London message states that i ■I) 7' Burgess. Biellv, Cohe'V f.cist, Power, . ; 'Longstaff. Long. Quinn. Strceton.. Young, ;| nnd Vanraalte. and. Misses Austin, Gib- ; son. Ilall. Joel, mul Morris; sculptures ; bv. Miss Benson. Parker, and Mndmumr are shown in the Tioyal Academy Munition. Host of the pictures are 011 the line, and all are well hung. The aver- . .ago 01 the worfc' is higher than usual. •

According ■ to -a message from, Berlin two blacksmiths stole the treasure of. ; If'idcslici"! Cathedral, Prussia,■'■which is. ) worth millions of .'marks, apart: from its' j unknown artistic value. They took fivo ; hours to bore a hole through the strong- j door of a safe. The loot included an ,j eleventh-century pyx, a gold cup worth ! .C,10,000. and a mediaeval, imago of the .; Virgin encrusted' with jewc.s. all of - which the thieves broke up. ; They were > arrested directly they readied Berlin ; with the gold and. jewels. ,•