GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 March 1919, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

I .VESSEL SUNK BY COLLISION. New York, Feb. 28. I The transport Acquatania, while en11ering the harbor in a fog, sank the Lord 1 Dufferin, a vessel of 4600 tons. There I were no fatalities.Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc AMERICAN STEAMER LINE TO WEST AFRICA. New York, Feb. 28. American manufacturers are considering the establisment of a regular steamship line between the United States and West Africa, in order to adequately handle export trade.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Asacx ■XHE FRENCH MISSION. Ottawa, March 1. General Pau was welcomed by Parliament. He listened to speeches in French and cheered the members. —Auj3.-N P Z. Cable Assoc. A MILLIONAIRE'S DEATH. i Geneva, March 1. The body of a Dresden millionaire was found in a trunk in a Geneva flat in which it had been concealed three weeks after he had been defrauded of £IOOO-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AMERICAN LINJE TO AFRICA. New York, Feb. 28. American manufacturers arc considering the establishment of a regular steamship line between the United States and West Africa in order to adequately handle export trade.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MINERS' BODIES DISCOVERED. London, March 1. The bodies of two miners which were buried during an explosion at a colliery near Tunstall, Staffordshire, in IKRI, were discovered owing to an extension of the workings of an adjoining pit-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. LUXEMBURG A REPUBLIC Copenhagen, March 2. A Republio has been proclaimed in Luxemburg aud the Grand Duchess has fled. A DIVORCE CASE. London, March 2. The Court of Session at, Edinburgh divorced Jdina, sister of Earl de la Warr and granddaughter of the late Earl Brassey. The petitioner was Captain David E. Wallace, of the Life Guards, Find the co-respondent Lieut. (ActingCaptain) Gordon, of the Scottish Horse. The action was not defended. GERMANS IN OfTTNA TO BE DEPORTED. London, March 1. Four ships have been chartered in China for the repatriation of all Germans in China, excepting a few missionaries. Twenty-five hundred, including 1200 women and children, are in* volved.—Reuter. TROUBLE IN ASIA MINOR. Athens, March 2Advices from Smyrna state that tho Young Turks have armed Turkish deserters, who are terrorising the neighborhood of Konish and also came into conflict with the British detachments at various railway stations.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BLOCKADE RAISED. Athene, March 2. Tho British admiral announces that the blockade of Kavalla, the Bulgarian coast in the Mediterranean, the Dardanelles. Syria and Karamama (Asia Minor) ha* been raised.—Aus.-N.Z, Cable Assn.