LATEST GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1509, 8 March 1920, Page 5

LATEST GENERAL CABLES.

L A(.GAKI) PHILANTHROPY.

[By Electric Cable —Copyright.]

[Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] WASHINGTON, March 6.

The United States Grain Commissioner, Mr Barnes, has announced that he will sell 5,000,000 barrels of flour on credit to Austria, Poland and Hungary, unless Congress speedily appropriates 50,000,000 dollars for the relief of these countries.

,lAPS ABANDON SIBERIA.

HONOLULU, March 6

According to a despatch from Tokio, Japan has decided to abandon the Siberian expedition. The first contingent of Japanese troops will leave Vladivostock on the 20th March.

SQUASHED AT SQUASH.

LONDON, March 3

The Prince of Wales was hcaten in the finish of the Squash Rackets Handicap at Bath. He vlayed a hard, determined game.

BOYCOTTING BFER

(Received Sunday, 5.5 p.m )

SYDNEY, Last Night

Miuecs at the Martland Coal Field are organising a boycott of the teer houses and certain commodities until the prices are reduced.

TENNIS CHAM Vl* UXSiHP.S

MELBOUPN'-:, Last Night

In the Victorian Tenuis Championship Doubles O'Hara Wood and Thomas beat Wertheim and Hawke 6 —3, 6—l, (j—s, 's—3. Ladies' Singles: Miss Schlesinger beat Miss Addison, 6—4, o—6,0 —6, 6 —3. (Received Monday, 1.5 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, Last night

The Melbourne tennis championships final results were:—Ladies' Doubles Championship: Misses Addi-

son and Westmoreland beat Misses Moreton and Farnsworth G —2, 6—3.

DEP. IKI;N ENCIRCLED

WASHINGTON, March 3

A Bolshevik wireless reports that the Reds have taken prisoner or killed the entire First Kuban Corps on the Caucasus front. Deniken's army is now encircled. IRISH INCIDENTS. LONDON, March .3. A youth was found dead with several bullets in his face and body, in a lonely spot in Dublin. An armed masked party held up mail vans and removed letters addressed to the Viceroy's departments, and escaped. NO SUBSITUTES PERMITTED. WASHINGTON, March 3. Senator Lodge passionately defended the Monroe Doctrine. He said: "We must tell the world that we shall always stand behind the Doctrine, and no international tribunal should even he permitted to question our authority upon it." Senator Hitchcock's substitute reservation, which was acceptable to President Wilson, was defeated. FLOODS IN SOUTH AFRICA. (.Received Sunday. 5.5 p.m.) CAPETOWN, March 6. ' A protracted drought, followed by continuous rains is causing serious floods in the Free State and Cape Colony. The Modder river has risen 50 feet, and considerable areas are inundated. Some villages are cut off. TURKISH TREATY. LONDON, March 3. A semi-official draft of the Turkish Treaty forbids the Turkish navy in the future allowing only a few revenue cutters. The Turkish Empire, under the Ottoman Government will contain a population of 6,000,000 subjects, compared with 30,000,000 before the war. It is understood that the Empire will be confined to Constantinople and Anatolia. The financial conditions of the Treaty are practically completed. SHIPPING REBATE. LONDON, March 3. The Orient and Peninsula lines are now paying a rebate to the Australian shippers, irrespective of whether they formerly shipped by the Commonwealth liners. CANADIAN EX-CHANGE. VANCOUVER, March 5. The sterling exchange is 3.70 dollars.