GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16758, 7 June 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. ' (Received June 7, 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Juno 5. The Daily Mail states that the British authorities are asking anyone in possession of information which will be useful in stamping out crime to write care of the post office. Absolute secrecy is assured. A reward will be given if the information proves efficacious. A fire at the Cranwcll aerodrome, Lincolnshire, destroyed the hangars and 130 aeroplanes.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, Juno 6. The Daily Telegraph states it is expected the Anglo-Japaneso Treaty will be renewed automatically yearly until it is reviewed by the League of Na-tions.—Ans.-N.Z. Cable Assn, PARIS, June 4. The treaty with Hungary lias been signed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (Received June 7, 10.20 a.m.) LONDON, June 6. The Sunday Express states that the Government lias decided to reject tho Royal Dutch and Shell Combine’s'proposals regarding the Mesopotamian oilfields. , (Received June 7, 11,30 a.m.) BRUSSELS, Juno 6. A Belgian, Baron Evenco Copeo, has boon arrested for supplying the Germans throughout the war with coal and coal products from which asphyxiating gasses were manufactured. (Received June 7, 11.30 a.m.) ROME, June 6. Eighty cartloads of munitions exploded at a suburban station near Turin, wrecking a number of buildings. Fourteen were killed and many injured. (Received June 7, 11.30 a.m.) BERLIN, June 6. Dr. Solf is proceeding to Tokio as Ambassador. (Received Juno 7, 11.30 a.m.) VIENNA, Juno 7. Advices from Belgrade state that an insurrection lias broken out against the Albanian Government. Tho Italians support tho 'Government. An Italian battalion was annihilated near Nicsso, which Italian warships then shelled.

The steamer Main sailed from Sydncy on Saturday for Rotterdam, via New Zealand with another batch of deported. Germans on board. The Gorman Government intends to demand 925,000,000 marks from Franco for damage during the French occupation of the Main districts. The title of the Duke of York has been conferred on Prince .Albert, the second son of the King. The French airman Ronssontrot Bernard flew for 24 hours 19 minutes—a world’s endurance record. The aviator encircled Etampes and Orleans at a speed of sixty miles per hour. It is reported that two oil wells havo been discovered near Bonneville, Haute Savoie (Franco), One is 450 metros deep, and is estimated to yield 20,000 gallons a minute. Owing to differences with Mr. Colby, the. United States Secretary of State, Mr. Polk has resigned the UnderSecretaryship. His‘health is given as the ostensible reason for his resignation. Mr. Polk is the third official to resign from the State Department during the present year. A man named Bogot, dirty and ragged, was arrested on a roadside near Paris gleefully counting banknotes valued at over 100,000 francs, Bogot protested that ho was a marine pensioner, and had won most of his money duriiv the three days at Epsom, chiefly on the Derby. The police investigated and found this to bo true, and released him.

British and American gunboats have been ordered to proceed to tho Yangtse River (China), to protect foreign shipping from bandits. Owing to the Tinsettled conditions tho captains of vessels are afraid to unload cargo and passengers, and therefore decided that British and American vessels would carry armed guards.