GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 July 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

SOVIET ORDERS CARS By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Ottawa, July 20. The Montreal Telegraph says that Mr. W. W. Butler, president of the Canadian Car Foundry Company, who iis returning from Europe, has announced that he has received from the ’ Soviet Government a 2,000,000 dollars* . order for 500 five-ton tank cars. The work has been started and will be completed by the end of November. ARREST OF BELA KUN. Copenhagen, July 19. Bela Kun was arrested at Lemberg upon his arrival from the Moscow International. It is alleged he carried plans for a Communistic rising in Galicia. MESOPOTAMIA’S KING. London, July 20. The Emir Feisul has been accepted as King by the council of Mesopotamian notables. The High Commissioner is re(milting the election to the assent of the whole people,—Reuter. AMERICA DEFERS INTEREST COLLECTION. Washington, July 20. Mr. Mellon told the Senate Finance Committee that the American Governi ment considered itself under an obligation to foreign debtor nation's to defer interest payments on their debts. AMERICAN LIQUOR PROBLEM. New York, July 19. The Anchor Line, a British steamship company, has filed a bill of equity, asking for an injunction restraining the collector at the port of New York from interfering with the shipment of liquor originating at Glasgow and consigned to a foreign port. Plaintiff maintains that the recent order by the Secretary to the Treasury regarding the seizure and retention of alcoholic beverages billed for transhipment to American ports contemplates a violation of the commercial treaties between Britain and the United States, especially the trade agreement of 1871.