GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 55, 28 November 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegrapii—Press Association—Copyright Italy has broken off her negotiations with the Kemalists. The Australasian League footballers beat Oldham by 16 points to 5. The opanTsh losses in Morocco since July amount to 10,000 killed and 20,000 wounded anu sick. i Tho body of an unknown Canadian soldier will be conveyed to Canada from France and buried beneath the Victory Tower of the new Parliament Building in Ottawa. Speaking ht Newcastle, Mr. 11. 11. Asquith declared that three preliminary steps wore needed' for the reconstruction of Europe—tho revision of the Versailles Treaty, tho cancellation of all indebtedness, and the removal of tariff walls. ’ "After a strenuous all-night debate, the •"> New South Wales Assembly in the early hours of Saturday passed through Committee the "Rill providing for the erection of a BrutgO connecting the city with North Shore, estimated to cost six millions. 1 The Japanese Crown Prince Hirohito has "been appointed Regent. Count Chinda has been named as his adviser. The appointment of a Regent has been made necessary by the state of tho Mikado’s health, which the Japanese Press has been forbidden to discuss. John Fitzgerald, an Irishman, sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment at Manchester for possessing bombs, rifles, and ammunition, pleaded that if it was patriotic for an Englishman to sav: "My country, right.or wrong,” an Irishman could claim the same right. Another of tho Badische Anilin Company’s worKs, at Ludwigshafen, has been destroyed by an explosion. Two people wero killed and eight injured. The Badische Company owned the- Oppau works, which were totally destroyed, with great loss of life, by an explosion in September.

As the result of a test case in the Australian High Court upsetting a decision of the Supremo Court, it has been ruled that the amended provisions of the Workmen’s Compensation Act were not retrospective so far as the original Act is concerned. The decision is one of far-fcaching importance.

Tl'ere was a remarkable demonstration outside and inside tho Hippodrome, London, on Friday night,when the King and Queen, Princess Mary. Viscount Lascelles, the Queen of Norway, Princess Victoria, the Duke of York, and Prince Henry attended a command variety performance in aid of tho variety artists’ benevolent fund.

’Representatives of Socialist organisations and trade unions, forming a procession hnIT a mile long, escorted the funeral in London of the late Mr. Hyndman. Tho coffin was draped with a red flag. Messrs. J. R. Clynes and W. Thorne spoko at the crematorium, the assembly singing "The Bed Flag.” "England, Arise,” and "Tho Marseillaise.”

Thirty thousand "penny dreadfuls” and 10,000 volumes of questionable literature have been collected by children of tho working classes of Berlin for burning at the stake. Mass meetings are being held in all parts of Germany in connection with a campaign against bad books.. Bodies of Boy Scouts are canvassing towns* and villages, exchanging good books for bad, which are burnt.

The Commonwealth Premier, Mr. Hughes. referring to tho Convention Bill, explained in the House of Representatives that the Whip had informed him that nobody was in favour of it. He would endeavour to amend’ if- The West Australian Houses have unanimously resolved that tho Convention Bill is unreasonable, and should provide for an equal number of representatives for all the States. The Tasmanian Legislative Assembly carried a similar resolution.

The Australian Minister of Defence staled in the House of Representatives that the cutting-down of tho Defence Estimates, as part of the necessary retrenchment, would result in the dismissal of four hundred men, all returned soldiers. Mr. Earl Page sought to move Ji»r a reduction of the salaries of ihemjers of the House and Senate by 26 per cent., but was blocked 'by a technical ruling. Mr. TlugTies promised to g*vo the House a chance to discuss tho proposal later.