GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 19 May 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

FLAME-THROWERS FOR LOCUSTS.

By Telegraph.— Ptess Association.

Paris, May 16. The French captured 70,000 flamethrowers in the war. They are now used to repel clouds of locusts blown from. Algeria. Within a few hours thousands of bushels of locusts were lying on the ground.

AMERICA AND RUSSIA.

Washington, May 17. Administration officials have declared that the United States Government will refuse to deal with the Russian. Government until all Americans held as prisoners are summarily released.

AMERICAN STRIKE.

New York, May 17. Captain I. L. Evans, the National Director of Shipping Boards’ Sea Service Bureau, has announced that the out-and-out open shop system will be the Board’s policy hereafter. He declared that only one Shipping Board vessel remains tied up at New York as a result of the strike. Reports from other ports show that ships are sailing with full crews, loaded with coal and bound for New England.

TRAGEDY IN PARIS.

Paris, May 10.

An astonishing tragedy occurred on the boulevards. A wife was wheeling her husband in a bath-chair, he being paralysed in both legs through a wound received in the war. The couple commenced quarrelling and suddenly the husband produced a, revolver and killed his wife. The man was wheeled off to the police station, and accused his wife of infidelity. She had indignantly denied this, and threatened to leave her husband.