GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 September 1919, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

COLONIAL CEMETERIES, i By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 17. Sir Thomas Mackenzie has returned from a visit to the cemeteries in (France and Belgium, He states that the work of gathering the scattered bodies and forming cemeteries is progressing well. When finished it will be a grand memorial of the men of the Dominions. The work was being carried out with great care and veneration.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoe. ■ ;lM1 , .; v „. VESSELS IN" NEED OF COAL. London, Sept. 18. The Government has requisitioned 20 steamers loading coal at Cardiff and ordered them to proceed to Manchester, Liverpool and London to supply coal to the vessels held up owing to their bunkers being empty.—Router, j .. CANADIAN IMMIGRANTS. Vancouver, Sept. 16. The outward bound capacity of the Makura and Niagara could have been sold doubly. Hundreds were clamouring for .passages.—Reuter. ANNUITY TO MRS. BOTHA. Capetown, Sept. 17. The Assembly voted an annuity of £I2OO to General Botha's widow.—Aus, N.Z. Cable Assoc. TRAIN ROBBERY. Ottawa, Sept. 18. A Quebec report states that five masked men bound and gagged the mail clerks aboard the Canadian National Railway, and robbed a car of £13,006. PALESTINE PILGRIMS. Rome, Sept. 17. The Pope urges Catholic pilgrimages to Palestine as soon as political and economic conditions permit. Six Cardinals will start in the present month. An Italian warship will be placed at their disposal.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. OF NO FURTHER USE. London, Sept. 17. The Globe states that the Admiralty is selling six battleships.