GENERAL CABLES

Timaru Herald, Volume 170, Issue 170205, 1 May 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

Six gift destroyers have arrived at Sydney and 100, gui> aeroplanes at Met- , bourne. . At the American intcr-Church. world iiwremcijifc' luncheon Dr. Atkinson announced that lie had received a> two-nut- : lion dollar pledge from Mr J. J). Rocltfeiler, junr. \ . '. i Twenty Russians who entered England without, passports have beeru depor--. red. Scotland Yard -is systematically searching the East 'End of Loudon and arresting alien undesirables, • mostly Communists. A message from Moscow states that 1 as a resplt of the efforts of the League of Agricultural Associations there has been a, great increase in the cultivationof land .throughout Russia. ' The.'average j cultivated at Saratoff this year will, reach the 1915 level#? ; The Victorian Government has ■in-' creased the railway, fares' and freights by. 12} per cent. .This increase is estimated to produce nil additional £1,000,-. 000 of revenue annually. I Several recent raids by Arabs in Palestine necessitated punitive measures. Cavalry charges at Senakh drove off a large force of Arabs and recovered a quantity of loot. " . / . , ! Two engineers and a quantity of surveying pi tun. ; are" Honolulu, en iioute for jfalining Island, to investigate on 'oehalf of the Admiralty the possibility of making Fanning Island a naval base. A British cavalry outpost repulsed an Arab raid near Galilee. Afterwards, while destroying the ' Arabs' ammunition a squadron was almost surrounded ai-cl driven towards its base. .Mean-., u \q a neighbouring garrison experienced a hostile Concentration • of Haftran Arabs, and only prevailed after a charge of Indian Lancers. . The New . York' --World's" Washington correspondent understands that Mr Wilson intends to •-return the Peace Treaty to the Senate during the summer. It is also understood that Mr Wilson... intends to submit reservations of his own. The Vatican is apprehensive of Jewish predominance in Palestine, and desires that the Zionists should be confined within just limits. 1 An . agreement lias been signed between Litvinoff and Italian representatives providing for v mutual repatriation of civilian and military prisoners within two months. < ; "Dr Wirtii, in 'the National Assembly, said that- Germany a yea r ago-, was-.on th© verge of bankruptcy.,, but the danger liad now. passed, as 1 the new System of taxation , was giving satisfactory results. .. ■ i General von Watter,. commaaider of the Reichswelir m the Ruhr region,] has resigned. The heads of twenty women have been l discovered at.Tanta-, near Cairo. The women had been lured to 1 the house, on a pretence of meeting -a wealthy ad--mirer, and were robbed and killed. Advices from El Paso state that rebels' under the personal command of Obreg-on captured the town-of Cuantla, in the State of Morelos. ' • Federal battalions' Tinder General Ur'cnzo revolted when en route to- defend Cuantla; . ■ - The New York "Times" . 'Washington correspondent says that-.-;• according to. •advices; received by the - State Department. Japanese itroops.' escorted 'by the warships , Mikasn.' and -..Mishima., have been: landed at ;Ale-x4ri3rovski," and have taken over the district.-