GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1915, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

LW3E LA.W, By New York, August 19. Lea Frank, a wealthy resident of Georgia, was sentenced to death for the murder, of a factory girl named Martha iPhegan. The sentence was commuted to imprisonment for life. He was removed from gaol by a band of masked men, taken in a motor-car to Marietta, and hanged and the body maltreated. Intense national feeling is developing against the lynchers. Mrs. Frank is prostrated. She nursed her husband in the gaol hospital, where a fellow prisoner attempted to cut Frank's throat. * .' --■--■■

THE ISLE OF MAN. London, August 19. Mr. Ambrose Qualrougli. a Radical member of the House of Keys, movel that in view of the imminence' of starvation and bankruptcy in the Isle of Man, the British Governror should be asked' to annex the island Lancashire. He declared that thing- were so bad that the Manx people had even offered to board aliens, which would turn the island into a lieU upon earth. Other thought the island would gain by the annexation. The motion was lost.

LOANS TO THE DOMINIONS. London, August 19. Mr. McKenna has conferred with the High Commissioners and Agjnts-Gen-eral for Australia, Canada and South Africa and a representative of the Indian Government with regard to the overseas financial necessities for 1916-10-Mt. MoKenna was sympathetic and pledged the Government's cordial cooperation in the various proposals submitted and discussed. The conference' adjourned for three weeks to enable the representatives further to consult th. ir respective Governments.