GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12102, 12 July 1920, Page 2

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

wooii SALES. . • LONDON, July 9. Merinos are unchanged. Comebacks and- fine crossbreds are slightly harder. Faultier and lower sorts were withdrawn. PEACE ON WAR BASIS. *■ LONDON, July 9. |A. Select Comrqittea on National Expenditure seriously criticised the Government depots at Slough. Lord St. Omer urges that the Minis'try of Munitions should cease as a spending department, and drew attention to the fact that the Ministry has £22,000,000 for stores on the current estimate. AERIAL MAIL. • LONDON, July 10. The Post Office is so satisfied' with the air service between London and Paris, thus allowing late-letters for Australia to be • posted on Friday morning, that it is considering an air service to Marseilles,- allowing letters to leave on Saturday morning. * - .i i i ■ GREEK ADVANCE. CONSTANTINOPLE, July 9. The Greeks are advancing eastward of Brusa. A desperate action 1 occurred beyond Panderma. two | Kemalist divisions numbering 15,000 j were routed. It is believed that onlv I 5000 escaped. , j MUST PROTECT THEMSELVES. TOKIO, Julv 9. The Government informed the in- ; terpeilators that the Japanese ship- ■ ping interests must protect themselves I the event of the neAv American j shipping law being unfavourable to i them. UNCLE “BULL” ALSO. BUENOS AYRES, Julv 9. The British Government has made arrangements to liquidate its hundred million dollars debt to Argentina • by meeting periodically the interest on Argentina’s external debt hold in London. Britain already has liquidated half its debt bv paying off fifty million dollars, an obligation which Argentina owed to United States bankers.

CANADIANS IN EARLY. OTTAWA, July 9. -Members of a Canadian syndicate, which obtained contracts valued at six million dollars from the Russian Soviet Government, announce that the question of credit has been satisfactorily arranged, and they are now completing arrangements for the carrying out of its obligations. THAT THIRD PARTY. NEW YORK, July 9. The organisers at Chicago of a third party are making a strenuous effort to have the national Labour party join the .movement. Thus far the Labour party has not been unfriendly, but it is- holding aloof until the third party can give it definite assurances concerning its platform and candidates. NEW TREATY DENIED. LONDON, July 10. It is understood in Paris that the rumour that Britain is seeking a treaty with the United States for the protection of the' interests of both countries in the Far' East is absolutely groundless. No fresh treaties are contemplated, nor will the Japanese Treaty be renewed until the policy of Britain and her Dominions is decided at the Imperial Conference. MANCHESTER GAS STRIKE. LONDON, July 10. An unauthorised strike of gas workers in Manchester and neighbouring towns, is causing great domestic inconvenience. Many mills and factories have stopped. Ten large towns are in darkness, and the bread supply is threatened, owing to reliance on coke for the ovens. “UNCLE” SAM. LONDON, July 11. The New York ‘‘American’s” correspondent interviewed Baron Rotheschild, who said: “It is absolutely idle to deny that France is unable to pay the American loan, which expires in October. The only solution lies in a direct arrangement with America, independent of England.

BALLARAT BY-ELECTION. MELBOURNE, July 11. Ballarat by-elcction: McGrath (Labour) 9 009, Kerby (Nationalist) 7245. The returns are incomplete. THROWN IN THE SPONGE. MELBOURNE, Last Night. The gas workers have empowered the Trades’ Hall Disputes Committee to negotiate for a settlement of the strike. SCHOOL TEACHERS’ STRIKE. All tli© civil servants and school teachers in the State have struck for increased salaries. They announce their intention of picketing the offices and schools. JERGER TEST CASE. SYDNEY, Last Night. Following on the habeas corpus application, ithe military removed Father Jerger to Melbourne, whence he wilf be deported at the earliest opportunity. A committee, entitled the Jerger Defence Committee, has issued a writ to 1?&st the validity of the War Precautions Act. under which the deportation has been ordered. THE LIMIT. LONDON, July 11. It is reported that the Government is determined to resist the miners’ demand for a further 2/ per shift, because it is necessary to reduce the cost of> living - , which the high wages are keeping up..