GENERAL CABLES.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170270, 15 July 1920, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

It is officially announced that -the British finally evacuated Batoiim on July 0, and that Georgian troops now occupy it.

Ihe Empire Forestry Conference dej t " lat rorests should be administered as a trust for the community at large by Governments.

Mr Bonar Law confirmed the statement that the Russian Soviet Government has accepted the British Government's conditions' for the resumption of trade with Britain.

Ihe State Department at Washington- learns that the Japanese troops have received orders to evacuate the Irana-Baikal region in : Siberia. A largo number of railway trains have been sent far... their transportation. Fifflrtais; is proceeding along tl-.e Pe-lan-reintsin railwav.. Tsaokiu' 5 troops commandeered the rolling stock fetrong detachments of Anglo Indian troops have arrived, and are guarding tlw; line nnd stations. Mustapha Kemat, in a bombastic speech m the Angora Assembly, deelarea. that the lost Greek territory would be recaptured before the vh& of July. Ho caused a manifesto to be dropped troni an aeroplane, challenging the Greeks to a decisive battle Utween .Kutaieh and Afrum Karahissar. Loveday (New Zealand) was fortvseventh in the Alexandra lm.tch, with !Y sc ° re of 94, and was thirty-sixth in the Stock Exchange match with m He also scored 49 in the "Daily 'iraphic match, but nine others' mad" the possible of 50.

Beaamiont (West Australia) was forty-seventh in the Stock Exchange match, and Croxton (New Zealand) twenty-seventh in the "Daily Telegraph" match.