GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
SEAMEN AND INTERNATIONAL LABOR CONGRESS.
(Received April 27, 10.45 p.m.; SYDNEY, April 27. The Seamen’s Federation is balloting on the question of representation at the International Labor Congress at Genoa. The New South Wales branch decided against sending a delegate.— United Press Assn.
LAMBETH CONFERENCE. (Received April 27. 11.25 p.m.) LONDON, April 27. ■ The Lambeth conference to be held during July and August, wall he the greatest gathering of Bishops ever held in England, three hundred attending. RABBIT BREEDING IN ENGLAND. LONDON. April 26. The Ministry of Agriculture is enconraging small holders to breed rabbits for furs to replace the cessation ox Continental supplies and the diminution of Australasian imports.—limes. FIGHTING IN MESOPOTAMIA. (Received April 28, 1.30 a.m.) 1 PARIS, April 27. A battalion of French infantry and a squadron of cavalry occupying Urfa, the last post between the Tigris and the Euphrates, surrounded Mustapha Remain troops. The French were compelled to leave the town after an armistice. The French thereafter were attacked by superior numbers. Accordin- to the Turks a portion of the French troops succeeded in returning to the town, and the remainder probably reached the railway. Reuter.
NO REIMPOSITION OF WOOL CONTROL. LONDON. April 27. Air Hall stated that he did not propose to reimpose Government control over wool, ...
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Gisborne Times, Volume LII, Issue 5465, 28 April 1920, Page 5
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