GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

DEATHS IN TRAIN WRECK. By Telegraph.—Presa Assn—Copyright. Received March 6, 11.5 p.m. Vera Cruz, March 5. Fourteen persons were killed and thirty-two injured in a train wreck caused by strikers disconnecting the ai> brakes off a train as it descended « grade, crashing into another train.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn. LABOR’S CRITICAL MONTHS. Received March 6, 11.5 p.m. London, March o. The Triple Alliance meets shortly t» devise a common policy in opposition t< the sectional wage reduction prop'osi tions. March and April are regards as Labor's most critical months.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Asen. THEFT FROM NOTRE DAME. Received March 6, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Mar.ch 4. Thieves climbed the tower oi Notre Dame Cathedral and cut away a section of the lightning conductor containing most valuable platinum and copper.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. * TRADE WITH RUSSIA. Received Marcdi 6, p.m. London, March 5. Krassin has arrived in London. He hopes a trade agreement with Russia will be signed in a few days. —Aus.N.Z, Cable Assn. THE PARIS “BLUEBEARD? Received March 6, 5.5 p.m. Paris, March 5.' The Court of Cessation quashed an indictment against Landru owing to minor irregularities in the Court, including the examining Magistrate’s neglect to sign the evidence given by medical experts. Therefore the case against Landru, accused of murdering ten sweethearts, which has already lasted eighteen months*, must be gone all over again Aus.-dJ.Z. Cable Assn RESCINDED. Received March 5, 5.5 p.m. London, March 4 Discussions in the House of Commons on the Public Prosecutor’s estimates elicited that the King’s Proctor intervened in eighty-eight divorces during the year and the decree nisi was rescind ed in each case.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn