GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 March 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

TOMMY BURNS—PUBLICAN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 30, 9.55 p.m. London, March 30. The Sewcastle Bench granted Tommy Burris a public house license, the clerk remarking, “He ought to be a. good, chuckerout.” INCIDENT IN SILESIA. Received March 30, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, March 29. In reference to the recent attack on British troops in Upper Silesia, it appears that a band of Poles bombed a lorryload of troops. There were no serious casualties. The attack is of no political significance but was merely due to anti-foreign feeling among the Poles owing to disappointment at the result of the plebiscite. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TROUBLE IN HUNGARY. Received March 30, 8.15 p.m. Vienna, March 30. The ex-Emperor Karl returned incognito to Budapesth. He visited Governor Horthy and the Tatter told Karl that his presence at such a time was a •great danger for Hungary and urged him to retire to West Hungary amongst the troops. Telegraphic and telephone communication with West Hungay is at present interrupted. A Hungarian Minister visiting Vienna has been recalled to Budapesth.—‘-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THREATS AGAINST ALLIES, Received March 30, 5.5 p.m Paris,- March 29. The French inter-Allied commissioners received a number of threats recently. As apparently the outcome of the threats one motor car dashed into a rope stretched across a road and overturned, and the French chauffeur was killed and two Treasury officers were injured.—• Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn EDINBURGH LICENSING POLLS. Received March 30, 5.5 p.m. London, March 29. The Edinburgh •courts granted an interim injunction deferring action in the case of the four wards of Glasgow which wet “dry” in November. The applicantsinjunctions alleged that there were irregularities at the polls. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. RIOTS IN PALESTINE. Received March 30, 5.5 p.m. Jerusalem, March 29. Serious Eastertide riots occurred at Haifa following on an Arab demonstration. One Christian was killed and eight Jews wounded. A state of siege was proclaimed and order restored. Times Service. NO NAVAL CENSORSHIP. Received March 30, 9.55 p.m. Washington, March 29. The Navy Department has announced the suspension of all forms of supervision over news messages sent by the naval radio station. DAMAGE TO FRUIT CROPS. Received March 30, 9.55 p.m. Washington, March 29. The Department of Agriculture has announced that a tsuddqp drop in the temperature, varying between 30 and GO degrees Fahrenheit, during two days over the eastern seaboard and the middle west, did probably a hundred million dollars worth of damage to fruit trees virtually all the early crops being frozen March has been an extremely mild month and all the trees were blooming. The frost ruined the early peaches, clieiries, strawberries, plums and apples. In Missouri alone the damage is estimated at ten million dollars.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A DETERMINED IRISHMAN. ' Received March 30, 955 p.m. Washington, March 29. It is understood the State Department will contest O’Callaghan’s plea that he is entitled to remain in the United States as a political refugee on the ground that Britain lias not demanded Ilfs surrender, and that he promised the immigration officials when he arrived- that he intended to stay onlysixty days. The State Department and the Labor Department in the meantime will not hinder G’Callaghan from visiting the different cities with large IrishAmerican populations and delivering speeches on the Irish situation.—Aus.N.Z.'Cable Assn.