GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5536, 19 July 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 18. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. July 17. The Morning Post’s General Dyer fund Has reached £IO,OOO. It will be closing on Tuesday, sufficient having been collected.

Eighty French battalions under General Gourand are marching on Damascus in consequence of Feisul’s rejection of the ultimatum. Feisul’s troops number 100,000. Lloyds merchant shipping statistics show that 3,578,000 tons were building in the United Kingdom at the end of June, an increase of 184,000 tons compared with March. The total building abroad was 4,142,000 tons, a decrease of 405,000 tons, due to the large decrease of building tonnage in the United States. OTTAWA, July 16. The Canadian Government has decided that the Wheat Board will not sell the new crop, reserving power to resume should conditions abroad make this course necessary in the public interest. NEW YORK, July 16. Speaking at Andover, Massachusetts, Mr Wood, president, of the American Woollen Company, explained that, although the United States needed large quantities of woollens the company could not open its mills, which for the greater part are closed owing to inability to obtain orders. r Los Angeles was severely snaken by an earthquake.

(Received Julv 19. 12.20 a.m.) LONDON, July 18.' Ex-Lieutenant A. M. Alills, D.C.M., won the Marathon from Windsor to Stamford Bridge, 26 miles 385 vards. He led throughout, though untrained, and eased down in the last ton miles, finishing fresh. The time was 2 hours 37 minutes 40seconds.' Fifteen competitors finished the course.