GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5582, 10 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association WASHINGTON, Sept. The State Department has intimej.ect to Mexico that it is impossible to recognise tlie new Government wliilo o. confiscatory policy towards American oil interests continues. LONDON, Sept. ? \ new Ypres League has been started by Lord French and Sir Herbert Plainer, whose aim is to extol the name of everv soldier who served in the bloodv salient, A list of the dead will he published and branches will he established in Australasia, Canada, and elsewhere in the Empire. There will also be an annual re-union, aiul the Government will be urged to erect a great and worthy memorial. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. The Governor of American Samoa has been summoned home as the result ox charges by natives that lie is causing serious unrest, which culminated in a demonstration against limi at Govern,„„t House. A. aadjN^CJ^ According to a Geneva report, the cx-Empress of Austria, who ns living in Prangins,' declares that eighty members of the Hapsburg family, chieflj .^ c j 1 dukes and archduchesses belongm to minor branches, are m financial du ress owing to the stoppage ol then incomes or the depreciated exchaxige. Some archdukes have become cleiks and archdukes have become governesses and ladies’ maids.—A. and N.Z.C.A.