GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW GERMAN FLEET. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Berlin, Feb. 13. The Hanover, the first Warship of the new German fleet, was put into service on the 10th. RUTHERFORD DIVORCE CASE. London, Feb. 13. Mrs. Alice Rutherford is seeking a divorce from Colonel Rutherford, who is an inmate of Broadmoor criminal asylum, having been convicted in April, 1919, for the murder of Miles Seton. SYMPATHY WITH WILL CROOKS. London, Feb. 12. The King, in a letter to Mr. Will Crooks, expressed sympathy with him in his illness regretted his retirement from Parliament. Further evidence of Mr. Crooks’ popularity is shown by an appeal headed by Messrs. Balfour, Asquith and Lloyd George to provide a fund to endow him during his declining years.—Reuter. FRENCH RAILWAY DEFICIT. Paris, Feb. 12. The railway deficit for 1920 is £42,334,000. The 1921 report points out that the eight-hour day has largely increased working costs. OPENING OF BRITISH PARLIAMENT. London, Feb. 12. Owing to Sinn Fein threats the public will be excluded from the ceremony at the Royal opening of Parliament on Tuesday to which the King and Queen will drive in a State ' carriage from Buckingham Palace. GERMANY’S TRADE CAMPAIGN. Paris, Feb. 13. Mr. Laurent, Ambassador at Berlin states that Germany has been preparing for months a tremendous industrial and commercial effort to recapture the world’s markets. She is not suffering from a coal shortage and the complaints regarding transport are exaggerated. LORD ROBERT CECIL A FREE HAND. London, Feb. 13. Lord Robert Cecil, in a letter to Lord Talbot, formally announces his crossing to the front Opposition bench. He intimates that this does not imply that he has changed his opinions, but it confers more freedom of expression. DOMINIONS AND THE LEAGUE. New York, Feb. 12. Mr. Gompers, in a speech at Philadelphia, referring to the Peace Conference, defended granting a separate vote to each British Dominion. He declared they were more often with than against progress and more often witK the United States than England. They went into the conference as States and were entitled to that status. Progress was safeguarded by the British possessions receiving a vote