GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 229, 22 June 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright According to an Ottawa message, it is. understood that Sir Robert Borden has; definitely decided to resign the Premior--ship of Canada.

A. Geneva message announces that 1L Jules Bloch, a Swiss millionaire, was fined sixteen million francs for declaring only a portion of his profits for taxation.

The United States' Department of .Agriculture has announced that the 1918 American wheat crop was produced ut an average cost of 2.15 ddllars per bushel.

Two porsons were killed and several, wounded in race riots in Chicago. The trouble started when two hundred negroes paraded the streets of the city and built a huge bonfire in which the American flag wn6 burned.

A message from Warsaw states thai retreating Poles surprised a Bolshevik cavalry division war Radonsyl and drove them iuto the swamps, where four thousand were drowned and eight hundred surrendered.

_ The Japanese Navy Department has issued a statement that southern troops entering Chongsha fired on tho Japanese warship Fushimi, wounding two men. The Fushimi was forced to reply,-caus-ing casualties among the Chinese.

It is reported from Paris that Louis Damblanc has invented an aeroplane with revolving wings,. instead'of a propeller, i enabling the machine to rise vertically, from tho ground and hover in the air. A quantity c<f saltpetre aboard the : liner Engineer, bound for Mauritius, '. ! caught fire in Lorenzo Marques Harbour., j As tho cargo also included carbide, the ' ship was towed into midstream. There was a terrific explosion, and the liner sank. There were no fatalities. ' A London "Times" message states that i Dr. Macuamara, Minister of Labour,-in a 6peech at London, stated that 167,000 j ex-service men wore still workless. Tho Governments intended immediately to leg-' ! islato providing for unemployment insur-- • ance for an additional 8,000,000 workers. '■..-. Shamrock IV beat the 23-meter Sham-, rock over the Sandy Hook course by 28 '» '■ 3-ssec. Shamrock IV's elapsed time was 224min. 2sec. It is now considered certain that Sir Thomas Lipton will use Shamrock IV for the race for the Ameri- .'■'■ ca Cup. . j Professor Midgley, of the Bradford- i Technical College, has tested samples c<f ", artificial wool from the Continent, which : it has been claimed is a possible serious' rival to ordinary worsted qualities. Ho ■"; found the artificial wool lacking in strength and elasticity, and inferior oven to low quality wcols. He admits that tho artificial woot is capable of limited use i nlone, or combined with other moterials; ,'; but the resultant cloth' will resemble | shoddy. |

Vienna messages state that,the workers of the Posts and Telegraphs, the Railways, Mid Navigation, iii Austria, Czech<v Slovakia, Poland, and Italy have joined in the boycott isolating Hungary as a penalty for the oppression of the Labour! unions in that country. The boycott has completely suspended communications. The Hungarians are making reprisals and have stopped the transit to Austria of large quantities of food and other supplies from Jugo-Slavift, Bulgaria, and Rumania.