GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 2 March 1927, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

| SINKING SKIP S CREW SAVED. LONDON, February 28. The German oil tanker Phoebus rescued the crew of fifty-three of the French steamer Alalouin, abandone< sinking off Penzance. PASSION PLAY IN LONDONDEPRECATED. LONDON, February 28. A proposal to stage the Ola ram Mergau Passion Play at the Albeit Hall, on behalf of the Empire Cancel Fund, met the disapproval of the Archbishop of Canterbury, who states that the performance in Bavaria is entire ly sui generis ami transportation to other surroundings would completely change its character and sacredness. U.S.A. AND NICARAGUA. WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. The State Department has informed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the United States had no in I teat ion of establishing a protectorate I in, Nicaragua. America’s interest in ' Nicaragua was the .ciiiic now as it line I been for years, namely, the protection j of American life and property. Nothing i had been done or considered, content plating and change. COMMUNISTS ARRESTED IN HUNGARY. LONDON, Alarch 1. The Daily Alail’s Budapest correspondent states: “Communist agitators have been arrested, including the lender, Zol--lan Szanto, who admits coming from Aloscow to carry on Bolshevist propaganda in Hungary. FRENCH DEBT PAYMENT TO U.S.A. NEW YORK, Alarch 1. , The United States Secretary of Fin I aneo, Mr. Mellon, has announced that j France has agreed to make the first payment, amounting to ten million dol Jars on the war debt, payable on June 15th., next according to the terms of the unratified French Debt Funding Agreement. If the agreement is rat if if 1, this amount will be credited to Frau '.e.