GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 October 1920, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

Br Telejraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Rome, Oct. 25. The Anarchists who were arrested in Bologna lust week have been released and the foreigners deported. Ottawa, Oct. 2(1. Bone dry prohibition was approved in four Canadian provinces which took a referendum on the question of liquor ; importation. 'Die approximate majorities were: Nova Scotia 40,000, Manitoba 1,->,OOO, Saskatchewan 10,000, and Alberta 15,000. London, Oct. 2G. Mr. 11. G. Wells has arrived in London, lie denies the Riga interview, and the scheme for the rescue of Russian intellectuals. Mr. Wells says that, despite six years' war, there is much order and courage in Russia. Copenhagen, Oct. 20. A message from Warsaw states that Tchitcherin has accepted peace overtures from Roumania and declared that Russia is ready to repay Roumania 000,000,000 lire in gold deposited in Russian banks during the war. Washington, Oct. 20. The British Embassy states that the decision regarding the appointment of a Canadian Minister to Washington rested entirely with the Canadian Government, and the fact that no appointment was made was due to circumstances concerning the Canadian Government alone. It is understood that a Minister may be appointed next year, though nothing definite has been decided. Vienna, Oct. 25. A leading scientist and meteorologist, Oargules, has succumbed to slow starvation, his monthly pension of 430 kronen (equivalent to £l7 15s 4d pre-war) being insufficient to provide needful main--1 tenanee. Pride and an unconquerable spirit of independence prevented him from accepting assistance from friends. Many similar easesTiave occurred among the intellectual class in Austria. The depreciated value of the krone is producing (starvation of individuals.