GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 271, 10 August 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(By Telegraph-Press Aasooiation-CopyrlirM It is reported from Sydney that tha 'Women's prohibition campaign has been officially launched.

Lieutenants Parer and M'lntosh havo resumed their flight 60uth 'from Darwin,, and have arrived nt Katherine River, en route to Brisbane.

A Paris message states that the direct pre-war train service from Paris to Berlin, via Liege and Cologne, is being resumed immediately.

A Sydney message states that at Coonamblo on Saturday, the Prince walked into the local hotel, and "shouted" for all hands. He is receiving enthusiastic welcomes everywhere.

A message from New York states that another issue of Treasury certificates for 150 million dollars has been offered at par, with accrued interest, through the Federal reserve banks.

A message from Sydney states that D. and W. Murray Limited have acquirer! by purchase the, interests of Henry Bull and Company, thereby merging two ot the most important soft goods businesses in the Commonwealth.

A message from Toledo, Ohio, states that English, French, Scottish, and Canadian champion golfers will participate in a, national open golf tournament thero next week. Vardon Bay, who has been making a clean sweep of American golfers, is expected to make an excellent showing.

Mr. G. S. Beeby has been appointed Jndgo of the New South Wales Arbitration Court, in succession to Mr. Justice Heydon. Mr. Beeby was returned ns a Progressive at the last elections, and his withdrawal from Parliament will give -the Government an additional voto for the time being.

The jockeys refused to ride in the last race at Gawlcr (South Australia) owing to there being too many starters. Throughout the afternoon the officials had formed divisions to cope with tho extra, entries, hut miscalculated the scratching.? in the last race. Tho upwards are taking, action.

A tramway strike in Denver, Colorado, resulted in serious rioting-. The strikers wrecked th« street cars and the carsheds, and also the office of tho "Post" newspaper, which opposed the strike, Tho strikers were met with a fusillade or bullets, which killed three and wounded thirty-five. Preparations were mado to proclaim martial law and to draft iti five hundred troops from an adjoining camp, whereupon, tho union declared tho 6trike off.

A condition of anarchy prevails in Frankfort, Illinois, owing to trouble between Italian mine-workers and other citizons (a message from New lork states). It arose from the finding of the bodies of two boys, who are alleged to have been kidnapped and brutally mu> dered. Severe 6treet lighting broke out, and seven were killed and sixty-five wounded. Many houses of foreigners wers burned. Tho Mayor has ordered Italians to leave the town. Four companies of troops have been sent to restore order.

The final sitting of the International Labour Congress was marked by a series of speeches by the leaders of the British, Belgian, Dutch, and German delegations, denouncing Bolshevism and reaffirming the principles of Social Democracy, which meant the peaceable transformation of society, whilst Bolshevism advocated terrorism and violence. 'The Congress appointed Mr. Arthur Henderscai ns president of the new International Executive, and Mr. Huysmans (Belgium) ns secretary-