GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 October 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telejraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. An enormous popular majority substitutes Government sale for prohibition m British Columbia. The Commonwealth having withdrawn objections, the British Government is arranging, with the unanimous concurrence of India and the whole of the Dominions, to authorise the issue of Empire wide passports, enabling soldiers to'travel anywhere within the Empire. The passports are renewable everv two years. Mr. Andrew Fisher is unveiling a memorial tablet at Amiens Cathedral on Novemger 7. Marshal Foch, M. Levgues, and the Agents-General have been invited. The Dutch Government has prohibited the manufacture of cheese from November where the surplus milk is not required for distribution. Sylvia Pankhurst was bailed out iu £ 1000. According to the evidence, the article in the Workers' Dreadnought, which led to her arrest, called on the masses to revolt and destroy Parliament, which should be "turned into a storehouse for manure." Pekin reports that an explosion and lire in Tongshan coalmine, Chili prokilled more than 422 laborers. It is beliaved that workers tampering with safety/ lamps caused the explosion. Smoke caused most deaths.