GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 September 1920, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Press Awn.—Copyiljht Mr. R. Saito, chief of the first section of the Japanese Commercial Bureau, was shot with a revolver by a Japanese l when leaving the Foreign" Office. His assailant, who surrendered to the police, accused H. Saito' of delaying the settlement of a claim he had against the Chinese Government. The world-famous big wheel near the Eiffel Tower is to be demolished at the end of the month and cut up into steel neetiwa for reconstruction work in the devastated areas. It will furnish 11,000 tons girders, and a quantity of scrap. Le T emps states that the Bolsheviks report that an explosion on board the warship Red .'Dawn resulted in the vessel sinking. One hundred and thirty of the crew were killed. Negotiations are proceeding for the appointment of a Mexican and American commission to settle the amounts owing to Americans whose property was destroyed during recent Mexican revolutions. The 50th anniversary of the French Republic was observed • generally throughout Franco yesterday. The official celebration will be held on October 11. A referendum of French police at home and in the colonies showed a majority in favor of the dissolution of their trade union. Herr Ernest, police president in Broslau, and the chief officers of the local security police, have been dismissed owing to the consulate incident. Newspapers report that the inter-Al-lied Commission has accepted the resignations of three British controllers in Upper Silesia,, which they tendered owing to partiality displayed by French in Tarnowitz and 'Gross Strehlitz Bela Kun, according to reports from Petrograd, is exhorting Hungarian prisoners to form themselves into a Red under his leadership, to enter Hungary and re-establish the dictatorship. ' The Swiss Social Democrats declined to join the Moscow Internationale The victory of the Marne was commemorated at Meaux. Marshal Foch, Generals Joffre and Petnin and M. Millerand were present. M. Millerand extolled the heroism of the French and British troops. The victory had incontcstably saved France and the world.