CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4148, 19 November 1920, Page 6

CABLE NEWS.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.-.) Cable Association. * TRADE WITH RUSSIA. London, November 17. The full British Cabinet had a long discussion to-day on resumption of trade Avith Russia, and there will be a further discussion to-morroAv. _ It is reported that conversations will be held Avith Krassin in the interval. MURDER IN INDIA. Delhi, November 17. Colonel Foulkes, of the Indian Medical Service, serving Avith the ivohat brigade, was shot dead by tribesmen in his bungalow on the 15th inst. His Avife was badly Avounded, but was subsequently released. SALVATION ARMY IN JAPAN. Tokio, November 17. Police action forbidding the Salvation Army open air meetings has : been taken on the ground that the : authorities were in possession of cvi-" | dence to the effect that Salvationist : officers preach mote polities than reI lio-ion. and Avere dangerous elements, j AA-orking under the gni. c of Christian j teachers. | j GERM-V.N-CZECHO CONFLICTS. Vienna, November 17. Racial conflicts have occurred in Bohemia, especially at Prague, between the Germans and Czechs. Following the Czechs' destruction of the statue of the Austrian Emperor JoI seph, at Teplitz, the Germans raided .' the Czech schools, colleges and hl braries. and threw thousands ol books into the street. The Czechs entered German houses and institutions and destroyed all the portraits of the ex-Emperors Karl and William. EVIL OF HIGH TAXES. London, November 18. Mr McKenna, at the Manchester I University, emphasised the evils of excessive'taxation. Avhich impounds the savings and deprives commerce and industry of an essential condition of growth. Moreover, in order to meet the demands of the next collection, traders will be forced to borrow, such loan being an increase in commodities Hence there will be a great increase in the velocity ot. expenditure, which will be the cause ot the curious phenomena noticeable since the armistice, whereby increased production has been accompanied by rapidly rising prices.