GENERAL CABLES.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18084, 5 June 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

BY CABBE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT Paris: Tho Conference of Socialists and Communists participated in the unveiling of a statue to Jean Jaures, who was assassinated in Paris on July 31, 1914. Anatole France sent a message in the course of which lie said: “We used to be told that this war was to be the last to take place. Now they tell us to prepare for a new war, saying that we shall have it in twenty years or ten years, possibly sooner, or immediately, if we leave the Ruhr, which would supply Germany with munitions. Has not our policy dona everything possible to hasten a new war? We have not desired peace. Firm pacific action would , be of much worth, while the resumpj tion of commerce with our neighbour, would have enriched France, more than claims enforced by armed strength, which has proved so costly.”. i New York: 1 The “New York Times” Washington correspondent states that despite earlier intimations that the . Government would temper the ships’ liquor ruling, a,s cabled on May 28, the Treasury lias published regulations which become effective on June 10, making it impossible for any vessel to carry liquor for beverage purposes in the United States territorial waters, save as medicinal stores, for which the ship must obtain a permit from an oflicer of the American Public Health Service. The regulations make only one concession, that is where a foreign country’s laws specifically mention the kind and quantity of liquors which vessels under its flag must carry as medicinal stores, the American 'Public Health Service shall issue permits for such. It is now questionable whether a crew’s liquor ra--1 tions can be included under the heading medicinal stores. It is generally admitted that the new regulations will. result in many international complicaj tions, and the effect will be to damage I American commerce.