GENERAL CABLES.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170269, 14 July 1920, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

Italy is resuming direct negotiations wren Jugoslavia. 7^ "i'ne Tflsmahian Cabinet ;s increasing the interest on • inscribed stoci i. bi and b' per cent. Advices from Teheran stale that the Lolsheviks have advanced from Nesheciisar, on the Caspian, to ttri. The Federal .Government of Switzerland is resuming diplomatic relations with the Vatican, severed in 1873. The Jesuit Order will be later re-admitted I to Switzerland. •

The Lithuanian representative r.t Washington announced that Poland is recognised as the de facto Government in. Lithuania.

The Italian Chamber, by .136* vctcg to 70, authorised proceedings against the Socialist Deputy Misano, cturged -with being a deserter h-.mi the army. The Majority Deputies left the Chamber, and others nissed wl.ile Misano was speaking.

The "Petit Parisian" states that an armed s ma,dman, rieeting Mai dial Foch walking.in the street of a Pelgian town, presented a revolver, deeh'iung;, "I could kill you if 1 liked. '' The man was disarmed, but at Jarshal Fcch's request was not arrested.

Questions in the House of Coivmons elicited the information that retail prices on June 1 were 150 per cent, above those current en May 1, 1914. British shipowners a ftVr-'d to restore to the Hamburg-Amerika line a' portion of the vessels now in British ports. It is understood that a credit for hvG years is suggested. The seamen's conference at Genoa voted by 48 to 26 in favour of :>n eighthours' day for seamen. The motion was lost, as it required a trio-thirds majoritv. ' Replying to Mr P. A. Hunl, Colonel Amsry said a complete list of the contributions by dominions, c.o'oniss and dependencies in men, rioney End kind, in aid of the Allies during tbe war, was now being prepared for publication. At the-'Albert Hall a gathering to welcome the Labour delegates.returned' from Russia, passed a rpsolutioii protesting against the duplicity of Britain's Russian policy, and pledging their efforts to prevent capitalistic filibustering in the future. In the House of Commons Mr; Stanley Baldwin, replying to a question m reference to the double income tax, saido he hoped that reciprocal action would be taken by the dominions, but hitherto he had not had tune to enter into negotiaions. _ " The Greeks have given the Tvemahsts a drastic lesson. They executed ••• , su numbers of prisoners taken f>. r ter the fall of Balikessar, on the groun<\ that tU* troops arc irregulars and m.ist be regarded as bandits. Only a nuicied were spared for trial. -.,._* Bishop's jeweller's snop :n the fceart of Brisbane was enterod on fepturday afternoon, states a. Press Association cablegram, and £IOOO worth of goods was stolen. „,...•• The • Commonwealth {statistician (states' a Press Association cablegram from Melbourne) gives the population of \tistralia, in December last as 5,247,018. . _ ■ Following on the Haoeas Corpus application, the military removed leather J«rgei- from Sydney to Melbourne, •whence he will be deported at the earliest opportunity. A committee entitled' the "Jorgor Defence Committed has issued a writ to test the Talidity ot the War Precautions Act, under which the deportation was ordered. The New South Wales quota, ot the next Commonwealth Pence loan of 2o millions will be -£«.300,000. ' Tho British naval steamer \eromca hag-arrived -it Port Darwin from England. After coaling she proceeds to New Zealand-to engage in survey work. ■* With the return of Mr McGrath for Ballarat the -position of parties'in the Commonwealth House of Representsi tires is:—Nationalises 37, Labour 26> , Country Party 11, Independent one.