GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1920, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

.; HELIGOLAND DEFENCES. Bj Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyiijht. Copenhagen, Nov. 29. A report from Berlin states that the disarmament of Heligoland will he completed shortly and the destruction of the harbor commenced. The International Commission refused Germany's request to save part of the harbor for fishermen. ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION. London, Nov. 29. Cope is delayed at Monte Video owing to the non-arrival of the dogs. He will proceed south early in December in thfe whaler Golstriefe. \

FARMERS AND PALLING PRICE.?. New York, Nov. 30. New York, Chicago, and Boston bankers have launched a live stock finance corporation with 22 million dollars capital to aid the live stock industry. Senator Capper states that the present condition .of the farmer irs precarious owing to unsettled markets and falling prices. ,He declares he will introduce Bills providing for loans to farmers and otherwise assisting them to market their products abroad. AMERICAN SAMOA. Washington, Nov. 29. v Mr. Daniels has ordered a courtmartial of Lieut.-Commander Boucher, Assistant-Governor of Samoa, whose charges of maladministration by Governor Teshune were followed by the latter's suicide. The naval board which is investigating the Samoan administration, reported that there was no evidence of irregularity, and that the native unrest was influenced by Boucher and others.