CABLE BREVITIES

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1920, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES

s (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.! | Japan is erecting a powerful wireless station at Fukushiriia, in order to relieve congestion in wireless communi. ; cations on the present Japanese installa- : tions. I Humours are current at Harbin in j Manchuria to the effect that the rem- • nants of Koltchak’s armies have recap- ; tured Irkutsk, but they found no trace J of IColtchak or the gold. i 4. j An outbreak of burbonie plague is ro. ported from Hatin, in Bessarabia. It is | spreading, and is likely to affect the [Bukovina. The low vitality at present of the masses of the population in ConI trnl Europe makes it necessary to watch ; the plagu'o’s progress with the utmost i care; There was curiosity at its re-np- . pcarance in an unexpected quarter. The King’s'Bench, London, has award ed General Guy £2OO damages against Violet Douglas Pennant for alleged libel contained in letters ‘which’ Miss Pennant wrote to Mr W. Churchill dealing with the W.R.A.F. scandals. ' ' New. York city authorities have appropriated 7,290,000 dollars in order to j clear the city streets of the heaviest ; snowfall since 1887. Traffic is so badly ; blocked that the city is beginning to j suffer from lack of fresh* foods. The | Merchants’ Association estimates that | business men are losing five million doli lars dailv due to the snow. j ' I The “New York Times” Washington | correspondent states that the Assistant j Secretary to the Treasury Mr Davis, ; has outlined a plan to Congress by j which the interest on the loans made in the United States totalling 9,500,j 000,000 dollars, to foreign Governments would be deferred for wars, after which' the debt would he refunded into 15-year bonds deferred interest being paid in 15 .annual instalments. The United States would then forego interest upon the three years’ deferred interest. Mr Davis has asked Congress for its approval of the plan. jLONDON, February 12. Leslie Coghill, Gordon’s brother made a l gallant fight with Goddard for a purse of £I,OOO at the National Sporting dub. He floored Goddard in the first round. Goddard floored him once in the second round, twice 'in the third round, four times in the fourth round, and twice .in the fifth round and then knocked him out. The bell saved Coghill in the third and fourth rounds. Ho had a reception for his pluck.