LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14038, 22 April 1920, Page 4

LATEST CABLEGRAMS.

[By Electric telegraph—Copy right. 3 (Per Press Association.) JAPAN SUFFERS A SLUMP. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) WASHINGTON, April 31. It is reported from Tokio that the principal stoejc exchanges in Japan have closed. Stocks have collapsed, owing to general unemployment. The effect was immediately obvious in the Chicago grain market. WOMEN WORKERS' CONFERENCE. Received April 22, at 2.15 p.m. (Imperial ftews Service.)'' LONDON, April 21. At a national conference of labor women in London 400 delegates were present. Miss Mary Macarthur. who presided, said that women were' never so important politically as nowadays. There was sufficiency of driving force in the assembly, to chaage the face of the world. The conference passed a resolution calling ui>on the Government to immediately give effect to the Washington Convention's request by introducing & Bill providing for the care of mothers at child birth and infants on a. universal non-contributory basis as a first step towards the creation of an internatioiial social industrial law. The conference also passed an urgency resolution as regards the use of black troops in Ruhr.

FINANCIAL CRISIS IN JAPAN. V _ . • —- (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received April 22, at 2.15 p.nj. NEW YORK, April 21. ■. The Japanese financial nouses assert that the; crisis in 7 Japan has . been exaggerated. Over speculation in silk has been chiefly responsible for the crisis.