EARLIER CABLES.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14702, 1 June 1920, Page 5

EARLIER CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN, {fir Eumtmo miesiMfrrOovtanm.) (Per Press-Association*)' t.. COAL CONTROL. (Aus. and N.Z. Cabla iwn.) ;. Received May 31. at 8.50 p.m. LONDON, May 30. The Daily Chronicle states that the Government intends to discontinue the rationing of coal- for home consumption, but. will continue to fix the prices at the pithead and control the export trade, thus preventing a shortage. JAPANESE SLUMP. (A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 31. at 9.2 0p.m.., < WASHINGTON, May 31. The Tokio correspondent of the: New Yorls Times reports that there, are continued heavy withdrawals by . depositors from tne provincial banks. Two small banks in Yokohama have suspended payment. . \ INDIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Asen.) Received May' 31. at 6.5 p.m. CAPETOWN, May 31. ' i 'The( interim report of the Asiatic [.•lnquiry Commission states that owing to the shortage of rice and other cause l ; large numbers of Indians are prepared ' to return to India. The Commission urgently recommends the provision of shipping to facilitate repatriation. | AMERICA'S DAVIS CUP TEAM. (Rouier's Telegrams.) Received May 31, at 2.5 p.m. NEW. YORK, May 30. The American Davis Cup team sailed for England on Sunday, instead of waltzing until next month, to compete in the English championships. The team consists of Johnston, Tilden, Williams, ahd Garland. ' 1 ■ BOLSHEVIKS SURPRISED BY ARMENIANS.' - (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Asen.) Received May 31, at 6.5 p.m. SIMLA, May 31. News has beerf received from tha Caucasus that when the Bolshevik armies were descending upon Baku from the north a lafgo and well-equipped Armenian force moved against the Tartar Republic < and captured ' Elizabethpol after fierce fighting. The<> Armenians lire now astride the railwky below Tiflis, and are moving along it. Another Armenian force is advancing down the Aras River, apparently with the intention of seizing tlie district of Kara- " dagh, lying between Persia and the Tartar Republic. This move, cutting off the Bolsheviks from Persia, except by sen, induced the Red leaders, to approach the Armenians with offers of o treaty. ,

RUSSIAN STATE TREASURE SQUANDERED. (Aus and N.Z. Cnble Assn.) Received June 1, at'l.s a.m. PEKIN, May 30. Tho dissipation of Russian State trea- > sure is a scandal in the Far East;. . Semenoff commandeered 2000 pounds weight of gold en route to the coast,and squandered 1,000,000 roubles on loose women, tho latter passing through Chinese territory with boxfuls of. Kola-.' The. Chinese Customs authorities lie Id up 315,000 gold roubles. AMERICA'S PLACE IN THE WORLD (Aus- and N.Z. Cable Aasn.) Received May 31, at 7.40 p.m. WASHINGTON, May 30. M.vPainleve, ex-Premier of France, who is en route to China, in the course of an interview, said that tlio United Stated , should participate morally and materially in the development'of intellectual relations with Cnina. M. Painlcve added that the United States, owing to her geographical poS'- ' tiori, was destined to serve as a link between Europe and Asia. MOVING MOUNTAIN IN WALES. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) ; Received May 31, at 8.50 p.m. , LONDON, May 31. A moving mountain is threatening the destruction of forty houses at Maerdy, a coalmining village in Glamorganshire, Wales, on a branch of the Taffvale railway. • , The pressure is bulging the walk and lifting the floors of buildings.. ANGLO-JAP ALLIANCE. (Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 31, at 9.20 p.m. NEW YORK, May 31. The New York Times learns from Tokio, that Baron Hayashi, new Japanese Ambassador to Britain, will take up the negotiations for the renewal of tho . Anglo-,] apanese Alliance, as soon asho | reaches London. j Japanese publicists, who support a' 1 I renewal of the alliance, say that modifications will be made in the renewal, but they point out that the Bolshevist menace to India is one of the reason! why Britain should desire a renewal. ■ AUSTRALIANNEWS. (A. and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received May 31, at 9.25 p.m. . - SYDNEY, May 31. • The- Seamen's Union have -decided that the union'' should withdraw /from all_future ritfval and military activities. This decision is the result of the Government's refusal to pay tho. men tho . waf gratuity. that the Australian cricket bodies will , consider the claims of thoße men only who fought in the war, the Secretary oF the Board of Control declared -that . the war was over and Australia wanted to forget it, and expected the Marylobone Club to send out the best team available, and Australia in turn would endeavor to send a, team to EngloncE that would d 6 credit to Australia. Received June 1, at 1.5 a.m. MELBOURNE, May 31. The One Big Union Conference was comprised mainly of delegates of railwavmen, waterside workers and coalminers, other unions being poorly represented. It was decided to launch departments of transportation and mining, the former embracing railwaymen and watersiders, and the latter coal and shale workers. The conference ro-'. presented 64,000 workers.