GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12065, 29 May 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Umted Press Association—By .Electric Telegraph—Copyright. PARIS, May 27. A cyclone in the Oise district damaged the railways, buildings and crops to the value of £IOO,OOO. The cyclone nearly obliterated the villages of Fontaine and Bonneleau. LONDON, May 28. The National Union of Railiyaymen have decided to submit the Iri’sh railwayman’s claim, not to move munitions. to a full meeting of the Triple Alliance. LONDON, May 26. Krassin, the Bolshevist trade delegate, has arrived in London to confer with the Allies’ Economic Council. There is a disposition in some quarters to believe that the meeting is likely to pave the way for political negotiations, if the Bolshevists will guarantee that military enterprises outside Russia shall cease. Krassin bears the reputation of holding moderate political views. WASHINGTON, May 27. The President in vetoing the Knox Peace resolution, bitterly condemned the resolution, as casting an ineffaceable stain on the honour and gallantry of the United States. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has refused by eleven votes to four to accept the President’s American mandate proposals. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives has rejected by ten to nine votes the resolution e-ndoi-sing Irish independence.