GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16795, 20 July 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Eight French battalions under General Gourand are marching on Damascus in consequence of Feisul’s rejection of an ultimatum. Feisul’s troops number 100,000. The Canadian Government has decided that the Wheat Board shall not sell tho new crop, reserving power to resume should conditions abroad make this course necessary in the public interest. , , The Minister of Trade for Canada has announced that will -rot maintain the embargo on exports to Russia and Russian citizens are free to make legal purchases from Canadians and open business institutions in Canada. - General Wrangel flatly rejected tbe armistice proposal to withdraw from tbe Crimea, leaving the inhabitants of the occupied territories to ruthless Bolshevik control. Four earthquake tremors were felt throughout Los and several buildings suffered slight damage. Germany has requested the requisite cargo space for the transport of 100,000 milch cows placed at the disposal of the German Red Cross by a Chicago.cattle company to alleviate the distress among German children,-and has decided that she is not in a position to find tho necessary cargo space. Follow’ing an unsuccessful rebel attack on Monterey (Mexico), Generals Pablo, Gonzales, Carlos, . and Garcia have been arrested by order of tho President. At commemoration services throughout South Africa to celebrate the heroic stand made by South Africans in Delville Wood, on ihe Somme, General Smuts announced that Delvillc Wood bad become part of Sciflh Africa, the Government having purchased tho site, where a monument would be erected.. Another monument to South Africans would be erected rear Arras.

The Tokio correspondent of tho Now York Times states that the Japanese War Office has announced that an agreement suspending hostilities in Western Trans-Baikalia was signed on Thursday between the Japanese and Verkhneudins Governments, pending the completion of the negotiations going on between tho Russo-Japanese committee in Siberia.