GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 July 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ITALIAN-RUSSIAN AGREEMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Asan.X-Copyrlght. Received July 25, 5.5 p.m. London, July 24. The Morning Post’s Rome correspondent states that Italy and Russia are about to oign a commercial agreement, subject to a proviso that Russia should meet her pre- | vious obligations. (NOTORIOUS COUNTESS RELEASED. I Received July 25, 10.40 p.m. London, July 25. I Countess Markevoiz, the Dail Eire- ! ami’s Labor Minister, who was sen- | fenced at the end of last year to two years’ imprisonment, has been released from Mountjoy prison.—Reuter Service. POOR FOOD CAUSES DISEASE. Received July 25, 5.5 p.m. New York, July 24. The New York Times’ Washington correspondent reports a statement by the Public Health Service that pellagra will claim approximately 100,000 persons in the cotton belt States, and it is expected 10 per cent, will die. Tenant farmers, who devoted the greater part of their land to cotton culture, have been unable to sell their crops, and have therefore been living on salt pork, corn meal and mollasses, which is a semi-starvation diet, because it is not varied. The growing of a diversity of crops, which from time immemorial has been the south’s problem, has not yet been solved.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BIG OIL FIRE. Received July 25; 5.5 p.m. London, July 25. The oil wharf at docks was destroyed by fire, and an eight thousand ton tanker alongside narrowly escaped. Two paraffin petrol reservoirs valued at £2,000,900 sustained damage to the extent of £lOO,OOO, —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.