GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18049, 24 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

FRANCE'S TRADE.

A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE,

Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, September 22. The Customs returns show that the trade of France during the first eight months of 1920 largely increased compared with the corresponding period of 1919. The value of export# increased by 8,663,000,000 francs, and the imports were greater bv 2,828,000,000 francs.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

DANISH ELECTIONS. COPENHAGEN, September 21. In the Folkething elections the Danes scored a great victory in Schleswig, where only one German secured a seat. The Government, secured 81 seats m the House, and the Socialists and Radicals 66.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Tlio Folketliing. or Lower House, consisted of 140 miomuers prior to the addition of Schleswig to Denmark. A proportional system of voting is used.]

BRUSSELS FINANCIAL CONFERENCE. • WASHINGTON, September 22. It is understood that the American representatives at the Brussels Financial Conference will be chosen from American financial experts now abroad. The United States will participate only informally, her representatives mainly observing the course of the deliberations and assisting with suggestions where possible.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

PROTECTING CANADIAN INDUSTRIES. OTTAWA, September 22. Speaking at Sherbrooke, Quebec, the Prime Minister (Mr Meighen) said that the main issue at the next Canadian elections would bo a protective tariff for Canadian industries as against Freetrade. He pointed out that increased home production and a decrease in purchases from the United States was the only means of meeting the -penaltv of 110,000,000 dollars which Canada loses annually through the adverse exchange rates" with the United States.

IMPERIAL PREFERENCE. OTTAWA, September 22. The Chambers of Commerce Cojjcpess at Toronto adopted a resolution in favour of Imperial prefcrenco bv 83 votes to 21 A. and N.Z. Cable. "

DAILY HERALD INCIDENT. LONDON, September 22. The Evening News says that the offer of the Russian Crown jewels to the Daily Herald was only one item of the Bolshevist subsidisation, £40 monthly being paid in connection with the Information Bureau. Money was also advanced for poster advertising and to the Communist organisation in Scotland for payment of propagandist speakers.—A. and N Z Cable.

COTTON PRICES REDUCED. NEW YORK, September 22. (Rec. Sept. 24, at 0.10 a.m.) At Manchester (New Hampshire) a large manufacturing company has 'announced reductions of' one-bhird in the price of manufactured cotton goods, due to the unsettled state of the market, which is causing the cancellation of many orders.—A. and N.Z. Cable.

GOVERNOR. COX'S NARROW ESCAPE. NEW YORK, September 22. (Rec. Sept. 24, at 0.10 a.m.) According to' a telegram from Phoenix (Arizona), a special train carrying Governor Cox and his party on a speaking tour was badly wrecked. No one was injured.—A. and .N.Z. Cable.