GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law said it was the, policy of the Government to hand back the railways to the companies at the expiration of the .present agreement. In the South African Assembly,; General Smuts stated that South Africa paid Count Danger 150,000 francs for the Delville Wood site, where a memorial to South African soldiers will be erected.

A telegram from Chicago says that the Railway Labor Board has awarded 2,000,000 dollars to the organised employees, being an average increase of -1. per cent., which will be retrospective from Mav 1, aggregating 600,000,000 dollars. The employees demanded 3o per cent. M. Krassen, accompanied by M. Kameneft' (president, of the Moscow Soviet) and M. Milyutin (chairman of the Russian Economic Council), arrived at Eeval on his way to Britain. Kameneff supersedes Krassin as head of the mission.

Fifty British Press delegates with others from India, Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand, have left Euston to join the Victorian for Nova Scotia.

The ston-valve of one of the Aqnitania's boilers blew off, killing an engineer and injuring a stokehold hand. The Aquitania was on the Trish coast hound for America. She reduced speed during repairs, but 'continued the voyage.