GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

DISCOVERY OF COAL By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, July 20. Prospecting in Kent has revealed extensive deposits of coal, described as the best in the world for iron smelting purposes. French concerns deavored to secure control, which has now been secured by Dorman, Long and Co.. Ltd., Aliddlesbro’, who propose an outlay of seven millions on development of the fields which are situated between Sandwich and Deal and extend miles seaward. CONTROL OF ADEN. London, July 21. The Daily Express states the Aden is being transferred from the control of the Government of India to that of the Colonial Office, which will effect a saving of £300,000 yearly in the cost ; oi administration, FRANCE AND POLAND. Warsaw, July 21. It is reported that France and Poland have concluded a treaty under which the latter undertakes to maintain a standing army of 600,000 men, j France contributing a gold franc daily | towards the maintenance of each man. : In the event of France wholly or par- i tially settling the Upper Silesian ques- ! tion Poland undertakes to grant France ■ the right to develop all the mines in I the Pless and Rybnik districts. In the • event of the Supreme Council assigning ■ Upper Silesia to Poland she will assign 1 40 per cent of the capital in the German industries there to France. DEBTS TO UNITED STATES. Washington, July 21. The Senate Finance Committee informed Air. Mellon that, until he has further studied the refunding of foreign debts, Congress will not act on his request for unrestricted authority to negotiate refunding agreement. HARASSING JAPANESE. San Francisco, July 20. At Turlock, California, aroused by tho failure of the Chamber of Commerce to sanction a boycott against the Japanese, raiding parties forced all the Japanese residents of Turlock on trucks, drove them to an isolated railwhy station, and placed them on an outgoing train. The citizens were angered by the fact that the Orientals were working for lower wages and Zeroed whites out of fruit workers’ jobs,. 1