HOME AND FOREIGN
MISCELLANEOUS CABLES
[Press Association.]
LONDON, July 30
Sir Thomas Mcßride, on behalf of tlje committee \yho entertained Sir Thomas Mackenzie at the Mansion Mouse,, presented Lady Mackenzie vith a necklet and brooch and her ■daughter with a. ring and brooch. Eastman's, the cattle and meat iirm, may be absorbed by the American packers. The Food Ministry has. suspended the apple price order between August Ist and October 14th, making a tree inairket. The maximum retail price after October 14th will be tenpence per lb. ■ The Australian Press Association understands that the maximum importers' price after October 14th for American, Canadian, and Australasian will be 21s 6d per case of 371bs and 23s 6d for 40 lbs. ■ The Russian Trade Commissioners .at Reval are returning to London. Ifr Lloyd George has sent a Note to .Moscow to demand a clear-cut answer to the terms. The King has deputed the Duke of York to receive the British rifle team .at Buckingham Palace on Aug'ist 10th, prior to their departure for Australia. WASHINGTON, July 30. It is understood that rcpresencations will be made to Britain and France regarding equal opportunity i:o American citizens in the development of oilfields in countries under the League of Nations' mandates. Mr Swope, chairman of the Con- - gressional Committee that is investigating the Japanese situation in California, in a. statement says: 1 "The United States has reached a point where we should not permit an unassimilative race to fill the Pacific States. When we realise that 100 of "the 150 Japanese in America live m California wo can understand California's alarm over the continued Japanese immigration." President Wilson is expected to "take part unofficially in the AJlies/Soviet Conference. THE HAGUE, July 30. Ths> Upper 'House unanimously ■voted a. credit to Germany of two (hundred million florins. MADRID, July 30. Mr Balfour, addressing Spanish pressmen at San Sebastian, declared ■that the- economic blockade was the League's most effective weapon iigainst war. NEW YORK, July 29. . General Critchley denies a report from Oalgaiy that he is taking three battalions of British and Canadians -to settle "on 'a million-acre estate in ■Mexico. TOKIO, Tuly 30. The Venezuelan Minister said that liis mission to Japan is to arrange for Japanese migration to Venezuela, where labor for agriculture is needed. OTTAWA, July 30. The New York Tribune's Washington correspondent says that a United States cruiser and six destroyers have "been ordered to proceed to Turkish waters as a precautionary measure, in the event of it becoming necessary to protect American lives and juol>crty.
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Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 181, 2 August 1920, Page 7
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423HOME AND FOREIGN Marlborough Express, Volume LIV, Issue 181, 2 August 1920, Page 7
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