GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 301, 14 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By TolacraDh-Preea Aosoolatlon-Oopyrleht Tlirco columns are marching on Elbasan, hoping to separate Durimo from Tirano.

The Australian Federal Ministry _is about to introduco a superannuation scheme, to include the permanent military forces.

"Chick'" Evans won tlio United States national amateur. golf championship, defeating Ouimet seven' up and six to play, in thirty-six holes.

In response to Mr. A. J. Balfour's appeal, the money raised by the Lord Mayor of London next Flag Day will be devoted to the fund to combat typhus in Europe.

A' Sydney message states that initial steps arc being taken in all the States to float companies, with capital aggregating fourteen millions, to promote woollen manufactures in Australia.

One of the finest ironfields in the w-orld has been discovered in tho Philippines, states a message from New York. Surveys so far completed show that the land contains 500 millions tons of ore.

According'to a London "Times" message from Paris, inquiries seem to havo convinced the police that the death of Oiive Thomas, the moving picture actress, was due to an overdose ot' bichloride of mercury, taken in mistake for a mixture for indigestion, after an exhausting round of gaieties.

A caso has commenced in Sydney in which Graham Brothers, Ltd., are seeking to recover JJSOOO damages from the New South AValcs Country Press Co-op-erative Company, Ltd., for an alleged breach of contract in connection with the supply of paper to the "Ifrisbane Courier" newspaper.

According to dispatches received at Tokio the Japanese garrison stationed in Eastern Siberia wil' lie transferred to Sakhalin Island. The Japanese troops in Siberia will be reduced from three to two divisions, in accordance with a policy of gradual evacuation.

A Renter message from London states that thousands of people were mystified during the war by tho sight of workmen busy building in Shoreham Harbour two hugo towers of concrete and steel which wero called "mystery towers," because the purpose for which they wero to be used was never revealed. They have been completed now. Each reaches ft liejght of 180 feet and weighs ten thousand tons. The towers cost about a million and a quarter sterling each. Ono Ims been launched and towed out from Shorehaiy, and will be sunk outside Portsmouth Harbour. The summit will emerge above tho water, and' form part of the defences of the Solent.