GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 January 1921, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

I»£AIN ON FIRE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Helsingfors, Jan. 18. A train carrying a quantity of benzine between Luga and Novgorod caught fire and exploded. • The wreckage burned fiercely and 68 passengers killed. . MOCCOW INTERNATIONAL. London, Jan. 18. The Swiss and Norwegian Labor Parties repudiated the Moscow International. ""z " 1 TITLED LADY’S DIVORCE. London, Jan. 18. Lady Victor Paget, formerly Olive May, a Gaiety girl, secured a divorce on the grounds of misconduct. MATINEES FOR HAIG’S FUND. London, JalTxlS. The Prince of Wales addressed a meeting in the Drury Lane Theatre which enthusiastically launched a Warriors’ Day scheme, under which every entertainment house in the kingdom will give a matinee in aid of Lord Haig’s fund for unemployed ex-service men on March 31. AMERICAN LABOR CONGRESS. 'Mexico City, Jan. 17. Mr. Samuel Gompers was re-elected president of the Pan-American Labor Federation Congress, which was held here. The congress unanimously voted that Mr. Gompers send a note to President Wilson merely requesting that the evacuation of San Domingo be accelerated. WOMEN TO SELECT MATES. London, Jan. 18. Sir John Cockburn, lecturing before the Women’s Reform League, declared that the choice of mates should belong to women. The female always selected her mate, except in the case of man. It was absolute nonsense to say that man was more courageous than woman. Girls were born in favorable seasons; bo vs in 'times of war, famine and adversity. Thus wealthy families had a plethora of heiresses, and frequently no heirs, with the result that families were dying out. —United Service.