GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 252, 19 July 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Press Assoclatlon-OopyriirM Passenger fares between Australia and Africa have been increased 7J to 10 per cent, Four Army aeroplanes loft Long Island. New York, at noon on Thursday I for the round trip to Nomo, Alaska. ' 1 The oxecutivo of the United Radio Telegraphists' Union has ordered a strike ballot, as the owners will not negotiate. A Renter message from New York I states that Los Angeles has. been Eovere- ; ly shaken by an earthquake., The London "Morning Post's" General Dyer Fund has reached ,£IO,OOO. The fund will be closed on Tuesday, sufficient having been colleoted. j Following tho action of tho New South Wales Government in releasing mutton j from cold storage, the meat inquiry has , been abandoned. The Australian Federal Treasury has completed arrangements to enable life j assurance societies to accept war gratuity bonds. i The Propaganda Committee of the Australian Labour Party passed a resolution in favour of increasing the salaries of State Parliamentarians to JG7SO, an increase of i 250. . i A Sydney message states that), the in- , quiry into the circumstances of the im< prisonment of twelve members of the Industrial Workers of the World has con' . eluded. Professor Irvine has been appointed i Dean of the Faculty of Economics at j Sydney University. He was educated ; in New Zealand, and qualified as Master ' of Arts at Canterbury College, and later joined the Public Service.

The British Miners' Federation present' ed tho demand 1 ) of the Leamington Con' ference to the Coal Controller, who indi' cated that the demauds would bo referred to Cabinet. Tho miners are dissatisfied "with the reply. Mr. J. J. G. M'Girr, Minister of Health in New South Wales,. is distributing outfits of baby clothes to necessitous expectant mothers. • As an expression of gratitude numbers of babies have been given his Christian name. . It is reported from Brussels that tlie life of Marshal Eoch has again been threatened by a half-witted druggist, who purchased a six-chambered revolver, and went .to Saint Proud, brandishing it and seeking arrest. A Paris message.states that Dr. Steinbach, tho Vienna scientist, has rejuvenated several old moil by treatment of their interstitial glands.' The treatment of women failed. - Wives are resentful, declaring that' thoy will not tolerate youthful husbands while they . are compelled to grow old. >• A private scientific expedition, with Government assistance, is being organised to thoroughly 'explore the former German portion <f New Guinea, including little-known parts. It will include experts in anthropology, botany, geology, zoology, and other sciences. Thero has been a remarkable expansion in the flotation of companies in the Commonwealth in the past half-year. It is estimated that eight hundred concerns have been floated, with a capital of thirty-eight millions, chiefly to carry on general trading! manufacturing, and the development of mineral resources. Speaking at. Andover. Massachusetts, Mr. AVoou, president of the American Woollen Company, explained that although the United States needed largo quantities of woollems, tho company could not open its mills, which for tho greater part are closed owing to tho inability to obtain orders. Tho Canadian Minister of Trade, Sir George Foster, has announced that Canada will not maintain the embargo on exports to Russia, and Russian citizens will bo free to. make legal purchases from Canadians and open business institutions in Canada.

Ex-Lieutenant A. R. Mills, D.C.M., von. n, Marathon race from Windsor to Stamford Bridge, a distance of 26 miles 355 yards. He led throughout, though untrained. He eased down in the Inst ten. miles, and finished fresh in 2hr. 37min. Msec. Fifteen competitors finished the course.

Archbishop Mannix, addressing the Cliilhaven Catliolio Summer School at Plattsburg, declared himself. ; a Sinn I'einer. He Baid the Australian Oatli.olies were solid for Do Vfllera, and affirmed that England .was "the greatest hypocrite in the world." Ho hoped that Ireland would fight England tne same as tlw Americans did. He declared that British 'denunciation,, of his attitude had been an excellent advertisement. Dr. Mannix roundly abused all things British.'

• The Paris newspaper "Matin", pub-' lishes extracts from a book giving aetory of the death o£ the Tsarina, the ■ 'iWovitcli and the Prin6esses of the Tsar's family. It states that tho party were taken to a spot near Ekaterinburg, where a kvee bonfire was lighted. Soldiers and the of the populace - forced the victims into the fife arid bayoneted: i them as they tried' to draw back. Prin- ; cew Tatiana three times endeavoured to [ escape, and was bayoneted repeatedly. The Tsarina, holding tho Tsorcvitoh s ; hand, threw herself, with him, into the flames. • >