GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1921, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

REBELLION IN THE UKRAINE. By Telegraph.- Press Assn.—Copyright. Copenhagen, May 5. The situation in the Ukraine is go-, ing badly for the Bolsheviks. The 24th Soviet Regiment mutinied and joined the insurgents. Notwithstanding the dispatch of 36 strong det*.?hmets to Ekaterinoslav the Bolsheviks did not meet with the slightest success. Their cavalry was ufable to stand against the courageous onslaught of the insurgent cavalry.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WAGES OF SEAMEN. London, May o. Representatives of the navigation and engineering officers, sailors and firemen informed the National Maritime Board that their constituents were accepting from May 6 reductions of wages of £2 10s a month or 8s 7d per week. The stewards refused to accept a, reduction of llOs monthly, whereupon the shipowners offered to make the reduction 50s, which, was also refused, causing a deadlock.

IMMIGRANTS FOR DOMINION. London, May 5. Tn connection with the statement that Sir James Allen was dispatching 1000 ex-servicemen to New Zealand, Mr. Alfred Davies (Labor) in the House of Commons drew the attention of the Secretary for the Colonies to the report that unemployment in New Zealand was general and that the Government was unable to find housing for its own employees. Mr. Amery, in reply, said that Sir James Allen had taken steps to see that only such ex-servicemen as had definite guarantees of employment and housing would be allowed to proceed. NA VAI. HOLIDAY URGED. New York, May 5. ■Mr. F. D. former Assistant Secretary of the Navy, in a speech, urged a declaration of a five year naval building holiday and the scrapping of half the American Navy as obsolete.

THE OUTRAGE IN GLASGOW. London, May 5. Twenty arrests were made, including six women, in connection with the prison van outrage in Glasgow.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aisa. .