GENERAL CABLES.

Timaru Herald, Issue 170298, 17 August 1920, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Australian and JN.'Z. CaUL. Assn

The Commonwealth Parliament is sending a aparty, including four Ministers, to visit the South Sea Islands. Mr Ramsay Maodonald and the Belgian (M. Vandervelde) have been invited by the new Republic of Georgia to proceed thither to advise on certain administrative matters.

The British bread subsidy, at present ijd per 4ib loaf, is to be reduced to 2d next month, and the balance will be transferred to the consumer at a later date'.

Mr Salter Winans, the famous American horse owner, collapsed I 'while driving in a trotting race near London, and-fell from the vehicle and died from fracture of the skull. The International fc'e-nmen's Congress at Brussels resolved, in order to prevent future wars, that ssamen should refuse to transport' troops and munitions. This decision arjplies to the Eusso-Pob'sh conflict.

■ The Japanese Consul in Sydney indignantly denies a- rumour that Japan is fortifying islands south of the- Equator. Tie-suggests that the rumour wasadue to wilful mischief-making. The net profits of Use Broken Bill Proprietary Mine for the vear ended May 31 was £577,000. The Canadian Agricutm-al Department estimates Canada's 1920 'crop yields as follows: —Wheat- 262 million bushels, oats 497, barley G3V millions. In 1919 about 200 American manufacturers established branch factories in Canada. A Military Court has hcon setablished at Bagdad to try all offeffndcrs against public order.

A. report that Russia Germany bad formed a. military and political alliance, aimed at the overthrow of the Versailles Treaty, is semi-officially denied at Berlin.

The Serbians have occupied Alosrio. cutting off Scutari's communicataioiif: with Durazzo and Tirana.