GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 131, 26 February 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

(By Telegraph-Press Assoclatlon-OopyrlgM Official confirmation is given to the cablegram that Australia has made a large purchase of Cuban sugar. Details are withheld.

A Georgian official telegram claims that the Bolshevnk attack on February 20 was repulsed, and two thousand prisoners and a large quantity of booty captured. Tiflis is entirely out of danger.—Reuter.

A Reuter message from London states that summer time in England will begin on April 2, and ends on October 2.

According to a message from London Australia House is sedtlrfng with discontent. It is reported that 80 per eent. of the staff has appealed against the classification on the ground that it practically means an ultimate reduction in salaries. Sir Muirhead. Collins declines to make a statement, and contends that it is purely a departmental matter and does not concern the public.

The Moscow newspaper “Konununa” has been suspended for a month for declaring that Lenin was suffering from religious mania, and stating that he is negotiating for the restoration of the Greek Church’s privileges, is replacing his "Jewish agnostic secretaries by orthodox enthusiasts; also, that he is paying secret pilgrimages to the monastery at Satsavva. locking himself up for days, and afterwards refusing to discuss politics.

The London 'Daily Herald,” commenting on the coup d’etat in Persia, following the capture of Teheran by a Cossack division, asserts that it amounts to a British coup to prevent a Russo-Persian understanding. The division is under British control, a British general commanding. J