GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 November 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Press Amu.—Copyright Thousands of women teachers iu London and provincial schools demonstrated in Trafalgar Square, during a dense fog, demanding equal rates of pay for equal work. They protested against the scale of salaries recommended by the committee of investigation, on which Lord Burnham presided. Mr. B. D. Hannn, manager of the Canadian Government mercantile marine, has announced that the Government's service of seventy-seven ships is ready to inaugurate a service between Canada and foreign countries. Adviees from Kovno state that General Wrangel is rapidly retreating into the Crimea, with the Bolshevists in hot pursuit. Lord Knntsford announces that London Hospital, the biggest in Britain, will be closed at the new year. Already there is a deficiency of £IOO,OOO, and it is impossible to meet the immense increases in the cost of running on a voluntary basis. Staj,e aid is tssential. The Orsovia, which lias ariived at Plymouth from Australia, reports that Thomas Kelly, a passenger bound for Ireland, jumped overboard twice within twelve hours. Boats were lowered and rescued Kelly, who was swimming vigorously. , A number of German University professors belongipg to the Reichstag have cordially responded to the overtuies of Oxford professors for a resumptiin of cordial relations Complete Ftauico-British accord regarding reparations is considered imminent a< i result of a Note presented by Lord x "by to France.