GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1920, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

iausteaiJAn & N.a. cable association] AMAZING REVELIA'IIbNS. NEW YORK, November, it. ifihe “Evening World’s” reveUiien regarding the Wall .Street <ixpiu3ion follows the exposure of an amazing .ijysum of extortion carried on by Mr it. PBrindeli, head of the Labour Trades Council, investigation reveals that Brindeli controlled practically, tnc eritirbuilding trade of New York, levying toll on employers and workers al'kc. Securing the support of a contractor lor a Wall street house-wrecking job, Brindell forced out the existing union workers and substituted his own men, who were willing to pay tribute. In revenge against the -contractor, the ousted workers planned a bomb plot. An infernai machine was placed in a waggon which was driven into Wall street by a driver ignorant of its contents. The traffic delayed the waggon several liiinutcs, the explosion resulting before it reached the site intended. The “World” states tha--several attempt were made to kill the foreman oh the wrecking job who'spoke bo tho drivel" after the explosion and wiro gave tho paper valubble infor ration. Mexican strike trouble. MEXICO CITY, Nov. 1.4. Serious disorders have attended the general strike throughout the province of Yucatan against the Mexican Government. war On jHGO-SlAvs: > ROME, Nov. 14 D’Annunzio’s Besaglieri have captured Mount Cuban, east of Fiume ) arid have occupied all the villages there assigned to Jugo-Slavia, except Pidagrec, where the Bersaglieri were forced to retire owing to local resistance. The islands of Arbe and Veglia have been seized by D’Anunzio and the Gulf of Quarncro. Moreover 6- powerful - Italian flee , including the dreadnought “Dante Alighieri” lias left the Gulf for an unknown destination, despite the fact that, Admiral Millo gave an explicit pledge to suport Signor Giolitti’s Government when tho latter allowed him to return to Fiume. D’Annunzio and Admiral Millo have now resumed the pact they sealed last year. . . It is now evident that 'D’Annunzio demands the whole of Dalmatia for Italy. ITALIAN JUGO-SLAV TREATY. (Received this day at 8 a.m.) LONDON, Nov, 15. The “Morning Post” Santa Margherjta correspondent states immediately after the signature of the Adriatic Treaty, the Italian and Jugo-Slavifi Governments signed a defensive convention against tho restoration of the Hnpsburgs. FRENCH FINANCES. (Received This Day at 9.45 a.m.) PARIS, Nov. 15. The Budget Commission of the Chamber reports a deficit of 28*0 million francs and says.—“We must borrow, as Germany has failed to pay and the Allies thus far have left us to restore the mine aTid factories which the enemy sacked, in the resolve to destroy indtistriril France, and wo must effect re. construction as far as our resources, Labour and materials perriiit. As a great number of the devastated regions must pass the second and third winter in huts, in wliicli Driiiffi’i-Ariierman workmen’would not conserit to live a week. The Commission is making a laborious effort to reduce expenditure.