GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 May 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

SIR T. COGHLAN’S RETURN. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, May 9. Sir T. A. Coghlan will join the Narkunda at Plymouth to-morrow. No aeting-Agent-General has been appointed. The Narkunda coaled sufficiently at Rotterdam to proceed direct to Port Said where she will coal for Australia. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MEMBERS AND INCOME-TAX. London, May 9. In the House of Commons Mr. Chamberlain announced that the Government intended to submit to the House proposals making members’ salaries entirely free from indome-tax, also providing first-class railway fares between London, their constituencies and homes. NEW STEEL-MAKING PROCESS. Paris, May 9. M. Bassett, a Trench chemist, has discovered a process for steel-making in one-sixth the time now required. The principal novelty of the process is the injection of .hot air and coal dust into the furnace, obviating the use of coke. JAPANESE AIR SERVICE. Washington, May 9. The Army Air Service has been advised that one big Zeppelin and thirty airplanes have been delivered to Japan, constituting her share of German aircraft under the peace treaty. GLASS SLASHERS AT WORK. London, May 9. Glass slashers got to work at the National Gallery and attacked Holbein’s “Ambassadors”' and Frith’s “Derby Day.” Luckily the canvasses are unhurt. The miscreants were disturbed before they had time to do more than scratch the glass.