GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 October 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By —Press Assn.—Copyright. The Bolsheviks have placed orders in Germany for locomotives valued at £30,000,000, for which gold has been deposited in two banks, enabling Germany to open important credits foj food and raw material. According to a message from Kingston (Jamaica) another request will probably b"» forwarded to Lord Milner (hat a commission should be sent to Jamaica to investigate the social and economic conditions in the country and the working of the Government departments. Considerable dissatisfaction is felt respecting the existing situation. The Treasury is full, but poverty and unemployment arc rife. Vienna, Oct. 23. Rcnner and 'two other Social Democrats resigned. The crisis was solved by Christian Socialists participating in the administration. Mayei succeeds Renner.

The Jugo-Slnvs have evacuated the plebiscite area of Carinthia. Constantinople. Oct. 2.1. The Soviet in Moscow has sent an ultimatum to Armenia with a view to enforcing a free passage for Red troops to Anatolia. Stockholm, Oct. 23. Lenin, addressing tho Congress ait Moscow, claimed that the economic situation was being strengthened, despite the blockade: London, Oct. 24. A wireless message from Prague stiutes that General Budeny is now fighting Soviet Russia. Soviet troops were sent to oppose him,' but joined him. Stockholm, Oct, 21!. London, Oct. 2,'!. Doris Jool, daughter of Solly Jool, a South African heiress, who is the wealthiest heiresses in the world, secured a divorce on the grounds of refusal of conjugal rights and adultery. The divoree was a. sequel to Miss Jool secretly marrying 'one of her father's clerks. The husband did not defend the suit,