GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 267, 5 August 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph-Prase Asßociation-OopyrleM Dempsey hag signed a contract to light Billy Miske at Benton Harbour, Michigan, on September G. Tho Commonwealth House of Representatives has agreed to make tho Industrial Peaco Bill urgent business. The Imperial Press delegates had a great reception at Montreal. Tho degreo of Doctor of Laws has been conferred by M'Gill University on Messrs. Leys and Jackson. The Premier of New South Wales lias announced ;hat tho compulsory wheat pool is being established to control the next harvest. It will havo tho samo effect as the Commonwealth pools. Tho West Australian Labour Party has decided to ask the Government to alter the constitution to enable youths at the age of eighteen to become eligible to vote at elections and receive tho basic ■ wage. A message from Brussels stales that Irish athloi.es refused to compete in tho Glynpie Gomes under the British flag, they desired to enter representatives of an independent nation, but tho committee declined to allow this, -English dolls and numerous other exhibits will he taken to the Dominions in 1922. The Department of Overseas Trade states that the Dominions want British goods, consequently a tour lasting two years is designed. A body, which has been identified as that of Richard Henry Manning, with the head almost severed, has been discovered near Chatham, Kent. It is believed that Manning went to England from Australia seeking work. Lieutenants Parer and M'lntosli will resume their (light iiowards Melbourne in a couple of days. Mr. Hughes has sent >a congratulatory message, saying that their feat, accomplished in spite of innumerable difficulties, is ono of the greatest yet. The Scottish Independent Labour Conference at Glasgow proposes that Itr. Winston Churchill should be arrested for trial by the House of Commons on a charge that he committed crimes against humanity in using British troops to assist the reactionary elements in Eiuropo against Russia, without the consent of the British people, A Reuter message re-porite that in the House of Commons, Mr. Auston Chamberlain, in reply to a question, said that in a rase where a preference shareholder in a Colonial company received a- dividend from a fund which had borne the Dominion incomc-tax, and he was liable to pay tho United Xingdom tax in respect to that dividend, a claim was admitted to appropriate relief from the double income tax. He had undertaken to look into tho flatter again.