GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LII, Issue 5476, 11 May 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

AMERICAN TRADE WITH GERMANY. United Press Association —Copyright. Australian and N./,. Cable Association. NEW YORK. May 8. The United States' exports to Germany since the armistice are valued at 147.00,000 dollars, and Germany’s exports to the United States 26.000, 000 dollars. REPATRIATION WORK IN CANADA.

OTTAWA. May 9. Parliament has approved of additional expenditure of fifty million dollars for repatriation work. Fifteen thousand soldiers have been settled on laud. Thirty-six thousand land loans have been approved. The average loan per settler is 3700 dollars. AERLiU POST• IN CHINA. PEKIN. May 9. An aeroplane mail service inaugurated between Pekin and Tientsin covered the distance within an hour. JAPAN TO REMAIXk'IN CHINESE CONSORTIUM. WASHINGTON May S. The American Ambassador at Tok io reports- that Japan Ims withdrawn objections to the Chinese consortium and accepted terms as agreed hv the United States, Britain and France.

BELGIAN ROYALTIES IN ENGLAND. | LONDON, May 8. Hie King and Queen of Belgium are visiting England. They aeropi a ned from to Faruborough. ' FRENCH DENIAL OF GERMAN 7 CHARGE. PARIS. May 9. M. Millcrand, interviewed, stated that the French Government formally categorically denies the truth of the German statement that white women in occupied- regions were forced to -submit to the attentions of French 'black troops. There, is not- a single French black soldier remaining in the occupied regions. AMERICAN COLLEGE, ATHLETES TO VISIT ENGLAND. (Received Mav 10. 7.40 p.mA NEW YORK. May 10. Princeton University will probably send a track team tb England this summer to compete against the Oxford and Cambridge teams.—A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.