MISCELLANEOUS CABLES.
,\ strike lias taken place amongst the public service employees in the Saar district, accompanied by acts of sabotage, and lias resulted in a state ol siege being declared at fcaarbruck. The German Government is believed to be behind the movement.
London exchange rates are as follows: —On Paris, 51 francs to the £; on Stockholm. 17.58 krone!' ; on ( hrisliania, 23.00 kroner; on Calcutta, 23 to the rupee; on Montreal. 4.00 dollars to llie 0; on New York. 3.01 dollars, A three billion bushel corn crop, for tic third time in the history or the United States, is estimated by that country’s Department of Agriculture. Five captured German warships have anived at New soi k. 'I hey will he exhibited for 12 months and then sunk.
Japanese residents at Okhotsk', a. marine Siberian town on the- Sea of Okhotsk, have been massacred and the town binned.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1887, 11 August 1920, Page 3
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146MISCELLANEOUS CABLES. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1887, 11 August 1920, Page 3
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