GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

EMPLOYMENT FOB MILLIONS.

By Telegraph.—l’rcss Assn.—Copyright.

London, May 13. The British Workers’ League passed a resolution in favor of commencing operations on the Channel Tunnel, river anti-pollution works, the canalisation of the South African rivers, the construction of canals and railways in Australia and India, the harnessing of the Nile cataracts, the building of the TunisCongo railway, giving employment to millions and opening up new markets to British and Allied goods.

SWEDISH DEFEINCIi

Stockholm, May 13. The Government Bill extending the period of military training was negatived by 207 votes to 72.

Von Sydow, the Premier, said there were still large States outside the League of Nations, and some of those within, in both large and small, were still eager for war. He could not, therefore, take the responsibility of disarming, as it might cost the country its life.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

UNITED STATES NAVY.

Washington, May 13. Senator Bora'h, in a speech in the Senate, urged reduced naval appropriations, declaring that unemployment demoralised business. No reason had been given to justify the increase of a hundred million dollars over the House appropriations favored by the Senate Commitee.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn,

THE SLUMP IN FURS.

New York, May 13. The St. Louis International Fur Exchange, the largest wholesale fur house in the United States, has issued a statement to stockholders that a deficit of 9,202,437 dollars exists in the company’s finances. The reason given is the sudden and violent collapse of the wholesale fur market in 1920.

PLAGUE OF LOCUSTS,

London, May 13.

The inhabitants of a wide area outside Toulouse are making frantic efforts to arrest the advance of an army of locusts, which are eating the country bare. The services of soldiers have been enlisted and enormous quantities of chemicals are being used, yet the army of insects sweeps on. German flamethrowers were obtained and promise to be the most effective weapon.

GERMANY’S BIG AIR FLEET.

Paris, May 13.

M. Michelin, president of the Aero Club, in a speech, said that Germany, though compelled to disarm, was now trying to build up a powerful air fleet without restrictions. Her factories were capable of building 42,000 planes yearly. Her so-called commercial planes were intended for war use. France must be on her guard. France had built upwards of a thousand planes this year.

TROOPS LEAVING PERSIA.

Delhi, May 12.

Persian advices state that Bolshevik troops are being withdrawn from the Mingal front simultaneously with its evacuation by British troops, which is proceeding rapidly.

CHARGES OF SEDITION.

London, May 13.

John Mac Lean, the so-called Bolshevik Consul for Scotland, and Alexander Ross, a prominent Socialist, have been arrested at Glasgow on a Charge of sedition.

NATIVES DEFY LAW.

Capetowi. May 12. Some months ago a "mber of natives, calling themselves Israelites, formed a camp at Bullhoek, near Queenstown, and refused to disperse. They were subsequently joined by diseontefited natives from other parts. Recently two were summoned as witnesses in a homicide case and refused to attend or obey later orders. The Government sent a large force of police and machine-guns to the camp with orders to end t'he defiance to law.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

FRENCH CABINET CRISIS.

Paris, May 12. The Press is keenly debating whether M. Briand’s Cabinet will outlive the failure to occupy Ruhr on May 1, but M. Arago, leader of the National Block, declares that the Cabinet is safe.— Aus.-N.Z Cable Assn.

GRAIN FUTURES IN AMERICA.

Washington, May 13. The House of Representatives passed a Bill aimed at preventing gambling in grain futures. It places a tax of 20 cents per bushel on grain sold purely speculatively, where neither buyer nor seller has physical possession.