GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 December 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

REPRISALS ON KOREANS. dj Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 9, 10.5 p.m. Tokio, Dee. 8. It is officially reported that armed bands of Korean malcontent? were broken up in skirmishes near Shangtoo. The Japanese captured three machine ;guns and 500 rifles and reprisals were carried out against the village where the inhabitants guided the Japanese into an ambush. Seventy houses were burned, and a number of villagers shot. In another town 130 houses, several churches and schools, were destroyed and BO persons executed.' RIGHTS OF WOMEN GRADUATES. Received Dec. 9, 7.40 p.m. London, Dec. 8. Cambridge graduates rejected'by 904 to 712 votes a proposal to allow women full membership to the University. CLAIM FOR £50,000 DAMAGES. Received Dec. fl, 10.45 p.in. Sydney, Dec. 9, The Limeric Steapship Company have issued a writ claiming £50,000 damages from Scott, Fell and Company, and the Commonwealth in respect of the requisitioning of the steamers Emerald Wings and Bright Wings by the Federal Government during the war. NAVAL AND AERIAL ESTIMATES. Received Dec. 9, 8.55 p.m. London, Dec. 8. The Government is submitting estimates, amounting to sis and a half mil* lion», for the navy, and two millions for the air services. NICKEL COINAGE. Received Dec. 9, 8.55 p.m. London, Dec. 8. ' The new nickel coinage is being put into circulation on .Monday. The withdrawal of silver coinage commences simultaneously. MORE CABLE FACILITIES. ' Washington, Dec. 8. Received Dec. 9, 8.55 p.m. The preliminary confercnoc to the world communication conference has issued a report stressing the desirability , of more cables between North America and Australasia, and recommending the establishment of an electrical communications council, constituted of representatives from Britain, France, Italy, Japan, United States, and other nations. The committee also recommends the world powers to agree to forbid the granting of exclusive cable landing or radio rights.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. New York, Dec. 8. It iff unofficially estimated that Debs received 950;000 votes, the largest number a Socialist Presidential candidate ever received. New York, Dec, 8. Lieutenant Willet, of the American army, confessed that his real name was Hans Willers. He was a cadet in the German army until 1914, when with 300 other cadets he was sent to the United Stdteg to 'join the army and become an officer. Willers did not serve in Prance," as bis identity was discovered when the secret service investigated ,Wa career, foU)»ring desertion wTtn funds belorifciag toHits aomfipy.