GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1919, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

PURCHASE OF SCOTTISH OIL INTERESTS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrlcht. Received Sept. 15, 2.40 p.m. London, Sept. 13. A combine with a capital of four millions has been registered in Edinburgh to acquire the ordinary shares of several important Scottish oil companies. The combine ig the outcome of' negotiations by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company. MEXICANS LYNCHED. New York, Sept. 13. Reports from Texas state that an armed mob of citizens raided the police station and removed two Mexicans eus. pected of murdering aerial patrolman Evans, and hanged them from a bridge.— Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ASSISTING THE DISABLED. London, Sept. 13. A Royal Proclamation requests employers to employ as many disabled soldiers as possible in their businesses in order to prevent a lack of employment which would offend the general conscience.. The object of the proclamation is to secure work for 400,000 disabled men. Already previously 700,000 disabled men have secured employment.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. SOLDIER PRISONERS RETAINED. London, Sept. 12. Australian soldiers incarcerated in prisons in' England and France were conveyed to detention barracks at Lewers, where the commandant addressed them, saying they would not be sent home. If they conducted themselves well between the barracks and the ships their sentences would be commuted.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SURPLUS RED CROSS FUNDS. London, Sept. 13. The British Red Cross is granting a million sterling for hospitals in England and Wales from the surplus funds.