GENERAL CABLES.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XXIII, 25 May 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

LONDON, May 21. After entertaining the Australian bowlers, Mr E. S. Humby, Mayor of Salisbury, was playing iwith the other councillors in a friendly game when he collapsed and died in five minutes. BERLIN, May 23.

The German Russian Association for the Promotion of Mutual Commercial Relations, comprising leading industrialists, expressed the view that while it was highly desirable that Germany should take an active part in the reconstruction of Russia, the absence of legal security there, together with the Soviet’s monopolisation of industry and trade, is bound to nip in the bud any revival of economic forces. PEKIN, May 23. General W u-Pei-Fu is directly negotiating with Dr Sun Yat Sen. Th* latter indicated his willingness to abandon the Southern Government and unite the country on two conditions: (1) The Parhament instituted in the first year of the Republic to be reassembled.

(2) Hsushih Chang Leking, President, must resign in favour of an executive, elected by Parliament. WASHINGTON, May 23.

Mr Harding’s advisers suggested that an International Conference of Bankers should be called at Washington to devise means for solving Europe’s economic problems. It is understood that the President is favourably inclined. Intimation was conveyed to Senators that the Administration desires the Senate not to interfere in the question of the recognition of Russia, and consequently Mr Borah’s resolution favouring the recognition of the Soviet will be either rejected or blocked.