GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 251, 17 July 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press Association.-Copyrlcht It is announced that Canada's net debt is 2,300,000,000 dollars. It is expected in London that Queensland will issue a loan when the Victorian conversion loan closes on July

The Persian Government has requested the Persian Minister at Rome to proceed to Moscow as a special emissary to endeavour to settle tho differences with tho Bolsheviks.

The Prince of Wales unveiled a statue of Jung Edward VII at North Terrace, Adelaide. .He said he was proud to join with South Australia in a tribute to his grandfather's memory.

In the English cricket match, Players v. Gentlemen, Players- in the first innings made 225, and the Gentlemen's second innings produced 124. Players have lost two wickets for 80 runs in'tho second innings. ■

The British Miners' Federation presented the Leamington Conference's demands to the Coal Controller, who indicated that the demands • would be referred to Cabinet. The miners are dissatisfied with the reply.

The Berlin correspondent of "The limes' states that von Hindenberg found a young ex-soldier burgliii" a cabinet in his house, and grabbed him by the collar. In the scrimmage furnitnro was upset,, and the intruder fired a revolver. Hindenburg ' eluded the shots, and while trying to reach a bell relaxed his grip, and the intruder escaped, firing several harmless shots as lie retreated.