GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 October 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telop\iDh-—-Press Assn.—Copytl£ht. The police arrested all delegates attending- a syndicalist congress at Bologna (Italy), which was arranging for reprisals for the arrest of Malatesta. The French Finance Ministry announces the rejection of an American syndicate's offer to purchase'the French Government's tobacco monopoly.

The British summer time ends this morning (October 25). Sir John Oakley, the arbitrator on Lord Forster's claim against the London County Council for the compulsory acquisition of 134 acres near Catford for housing, awarded £31,520. Lord Forster claimed £79,000, and the Council offered £30,019. According to reports from Helsingfors a state of siege has been proclaimed in thirteen districts in Russia, the Soviet leaders being- afraid of hunger disturbances.

A thousand emigrants for West Australia have been booked by the Zealandic, but the ship's departure has been postponed indefinitely in consequence of the shipwrights' strike delaying reconstruction work.

.Commandant Greve, representative of the German Red Cross, hits been arrested at Posen on suspicion of espionage. Grove's office is described a 9 a spy centre.

According to despatches from Harbin, 300 Russians were killed and injured in a train collision on the Chinese Eastern railway.

It is understood that the State Department at Washington will not take any action to prevent Lettish deportation proceedings against Costello, whom Scotland Yard seized in London. It is pointed out that it is known there he had relation,; with the Bolsheviks, and therefore, despite American citizenship, the State Department does not feel "it can protect him. \

Ranee Raar is shortly appearing at the Coliseum, London, rendering Maori folk songs and war chnats. Allsopps and Sons, of Burton-on-Trent, have purchased Hill 00, near Loos, and are establishing a hotel there, Melbourne, Oct, 22. Mr. Hutchinson (Minister of Education) is being hard pressed, and looks like losing Jiis seat to Mr, Alison, the Farmers' candidate. The fate of Mr. Campbell, honorary Minister, and of Mr. Rennington, Government Whip, is also in the balance, but the returns are still so incomplete that considerable changes are possible. The local option figures are very backward.

The Government majority is assured, but the results of preferential voting are too indefinite to gauge the position of the parties. Mr. Mackinnon, assistant-Minister of Lands and ex-Director of Recruiting, was defeated by Mr. Parker (Labor), a returned soldier. Mr. Mackinnon had represented Phahran for 21 years. The Telegraph forecasts the state of parties as: 'Ministerialists 33, Labor 21, Farmers, 21, Independent 1. Tho local option poll dominated the election. The figures so far are showing a heavy vote for continuance. Of 57,00.0 votes, 34,000 were cast for continuance and 20,000 for no license and 3000 for reduction.

—' Melbourne, Oct. 23. A general meeting of the Australian Society of .Friends resolved to appeal to Mr. Hughes and the Federal Parliament to lift the embargo placed on trade with Central Europe; the war being over there was no good reason for continuing the restrictions, and Australia was the only Allied nation that had not lifted the embargo.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.