GENERAL CABLES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18017, 4 November 1920, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, Nov. 2. The outstanding feature of the municipal elections in three hundred English boroughs, in which one-third of the membership is annually electable, was the heavy defeat of the Labourites, particularly in the industrial districts. The most prominent issue was th e soaring rates, which are the highest where Labour majorities control affairs, BERLIN, Nov. 2. The German Government have despatched a detailed reply to the demand of the Ambassadors’ Conference for the destruction of Diesel motors, stating that the Versailles Treaty speaks not of the destruction but only of the breaking up of U boats, showing clearly that it was not intended to make them absolutely unusable. OTTAWA, Nov- 2. Owing to the favourable weather conditions, Canada’s wheat crop for 1920 is now estimated at 239,361,000 bushels. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. Canada han exported to the United States during the first fifteen days of October 4,950,000 bushels of wheat and 65,946 barrels of flour. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 1. The anti-Bolshevik rising in Siberia is spreading. The newspaper Pravda states that eighty-one conspirators, mainly officers, were executed at Omsk. Colonel Semenoff, leader of the Cossack irregulars, was captured while trying to escape in an aeroplane. LONDON, Nov. 1. The members of the Press Delegation tendered a luncheon to Lord and Lady Burnham, Lord Northcliffe presiding.-. Eulogistic references were made to the personnel and work of the Canadian conference. Those present included Mr Hutchison, of Dunedin, New Zealand. CAPETOWN, Nov. 1. The strike of natives at Port Elizabeth has been called off. The natives have resolved to negotiate with their employers. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 1. The National Tidendex reports that the Finnish steamer Ariadne, bound from Stockholm to Helsingsi’ors, was stopped by a British cruiser, and eight Russian Bolshevist passengers were removed. SYDNEY, Nov. 3Requiem masses for McSwiney were held at the various capitals. A fire occurred during the run to Sydney in one of the Manuka’s bunkers. It w-as quickly extinguished with slight damage. Mr Palmer, secretary of the Rugby Union, has announced that the Springboks intend playing three matches here in June and three more on returning from New Zealand. A Maori team visits Sydney during the Springboks’ tour of New Zealand, and a New South Wales’ team visits New Zealand at the end of the season. The New Zealand universities will engage the Sydney universities in May. A French team intends visiting Sydney in 1922, returning via Africa. DELHI. Nov. 2. An attempt was made on the 31st to produce an anti-British demonstration in the Teheran bazaars owing to the British demand for removal of the Russian Cossack officers, but failed. A few shots were fired, one man being wounded- Starosselsky left for Europe on the thirteenth, and other Russian officers will follow. The departure of these powerful and determined opponents of Anglo-Persian friendship is expected to smooth the course of the Anglo-Persian agreement.