BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15276, 26 July 1920, Page 3

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

, ■ . ;■■:.•>;,?■ - (Elec. Tel. Copyright— United Press Assm) [Australian and N.Z. Cable Association... ."•.-• LONDON, July 22. A message from the Paris Congress of ■ tho International Society of Surgeons states that they approved the decision of the international , bureau .excluding surgeons of the ''Central Powers and adopted a resolution emphasising the unprofessional -conduct of German surgeons during the war. . . , '. LONDON, July 23. Tho King inspected and Avelcomed a largo number of oversea Boy Scouts at Buckingham Palace. , .;■'■ Earl Clancarty has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment'^pr obtaining crodit,' not disclosing liinisolf as an undischarged bankrupt. - Y The House- of Lords dismissed -, the income tax appeal " ; of the preference stockholders versus the New Zealand and Australian Land Co. The Zionist Conference adopted ascheme to raiso.2s millions sterling to promote Palestine settlement. The delegates contributed £100,000. His Majesty the King, at Buckingham Palace, received the bishops attending the^ Lambeth Conference Y .(Received July 26, 9.5 a.m.) DELHI, July 24. , In north-west Persia, a party of 200 Jurigal tribesmen fired; vph a British patrol midvvay: bctweeh iß'esht an d Manjil." • '•■■ y ; . ....■_' ST.' JOHNS- July 23. The Marconi Y Wireless Company's experts announce that they fieara 0 wireless telephonic messages from the Chelmsford station, and said, they recognised the voice of Captain Rqpnd,the expert in? charge, and identified several words, but failed to pick tip any : connected? sentences. BTJENOS * AYRES, July 23. Parliament approved of an appropriation of /five million pesos to send food to Vienna. NEW YORK, July '23. It is expected that foijr miilibii dollars in gold will bo sent. to Tokio before the end of July. Akifa _)on, financial commissioner, stated that neither the Japanese; Government nor the Bank of Japan has any connection .with this gold export, whichYia- only a normal exchange of private banks. The present total of gold reserve held by the : Government and* B_nk of Japan, consisting of the home gold reserve and credit abroad, amounts to 1921 million yen. ? ..*■." MEXICO CITY, July 23. Bolshevik .agitations aro spreading throughout Mexico. ' '\Draf t^dodgers .' ' from the United ' States , are the principal agents. The authorities seem to be puzzled how to combat the trouble. .NEW YORK, July 23. It is announced at Washington that the United States exports for the fiscal year ended- 30th June, total 811 million dollars; the imports 5338 millions; the gold • imports amounted to 151 millions, the exports to .467 millions; silver imports 102,800,000 dollars, exports _79 millionsi. A Seattle meesago states: "It. is reported here from Halifax that two submarines, constructed here for Chili, and sold to Canada during the- war, will be auctioned shortly to the highest, bidder." t (Received July 26, 8.155 a.n_.) NEW YORK, July 24. A Chicago- message states that the executive- of . the Railroad Brotherhoods have completed an order for a country- wide referendum on the Federal Labor Board's ' wage award, strongly advising against a strike, and intimating that 84 per cent, of the epiployees had agreed through their representatives to accept. * < . TOKIO, July 23. Because they were not invited to the International Seamen.'s Conference at Genoa, officers and engineers of the Japanese mercantile fleet informed the Govi-rnnient they wiU not. abide by the conference's decisions.' (Received July 26, 10.5 a,m?) ■-...- ST. JOHNS, July 2¥k." , The Marconi , signal hill station telephoned conversationally to the journalists aboard the Victoria, , one hundred miles out. Premier Squires will s*end a wireless telephone welcome. LONDON,. July 25. At the Brighton , bowls tournament, which had 158 entries, Orchard, of New Zealand, lost the final," being beaten by 14 to 12 in 21 ends., (Received Julv 26, «9.20 a.m.) ' COPENHAGEN, July 25: Ths Berlhiger Tageblatt states > that owing to the high prices of food, and clothing a mob at Treves pillaged shops and .warehouses. The police were overpowered and appealed' to French troops to' assist in restoring order. Arrangements aro in progress to reduce prices. PARIS, July 25. Tlie Matin says that Dorden, the. Separatist, was kidnapped opposite his residence in Wiesbaden by three armed men and carried off in a motor car to an unknown destination in unoccupied Germany.