GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 August 1921, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

f MORE IMMIGRANTS COMING. 'By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received August 5, 5.5 p.m. _ London, August 4, The Waimana is sailing on September I with nine hundred immigrants, half ex-service men and the remainder nominees. IN MEMORY OF A TRAITOR. Berlin, August 3. A memorial service to Casement yesterday was attended by the conqplete Irish colony, including Gaffney, a former Consul-General, and many Irish-Ameri- ( cans and Germane. SEQUEL TO A STRIKE. Honolulu. August 3. Twenty Japanese, many of whom are prominent persons, have been indicted on charges of erminal conspiracy in connection with violence attending the sugar plantation strike last year. BRITISH SHIPBUILDING STRIKE. London, August 3. The Federation of Shipbuilding Employers’ meeting at Edinburgh, considered the failure to end the ship-joiners’ strike. They regard the position as most serious in view of orders going abroad and the absence of orders in home yards. The meeting decided it could not make the joiners a new offer. CONTROL OF GREATER LONDON, London. August 3. Sir Alfred Mond, in the House of Commons, said the Government had decided to appoint a royal, commission to consider the question of government for greater Loudon. The last similar commission was held in 1883, from which the London County Council was created. —Aue.-N.Z. Cable Assn. KEEPING SPORT CLEAN. New York, August 3. Seven members of the famous White Sox baseball team, who were yesterday acquitted by a jury on a charge of selling the 1919 series of games, were today banned by the baseball commission from ever again playing. The commission decided that any player who had confessed to throwing away a game, or who conspired with gamblers with a view to throwing a game away, should not be reinstated. SOVIET FUNDS STOLEN. . New York, August 3. The New York World reports the arrest of Roberto Gibarjo, who is charged with the theft of 136,000 dollars of the Russian Soviet’s funds. It is stated a shortage of nearly a million dollars was discovered in the Soviet funds deposited in a New York bank. TOO HOT FOR DAY WORK. London, August 3. As a result of the oppressive heat- in Belgium the farmers are working all night instead of in the daytime. Searchlights are attached to the cutters and binders.—United Service. REMARKABLE IN ,VENTION« Paris, August 3. A device, whereby it is claimed a telephone can be harnessed to submarine cables,, has been invented by Gaston Vincent and Louis du Verger, two French engineers. The Government has sanctioned an experiment with the new principle, which it is claimed can be applied to all existing submarine cables.— Times Service. AN INTERNATIONAL COURT. Geneva, August 3. Britain has officially notified the League of Nations that the British Empire as a whole has ratified the statute providing for the creation of a permanent Court of International justice, j A PLEA FOR UNITY. London, August 4. Mr. Ben Tillett, in his annual report to the Dockers’ Union, strongly animadverts on the want of unity within the Miners’ Union in the recent strike, planned by the Triple Alliance. 1 lie Miners’ Union needed amalgamating more than any other. Mr. Tillett suggests co-operation between the great trade unions to deal with unemployment. AERO-TRAIN ACCIDENT. London, August 4. Information received in London confirms that Paul Freeman was killed in the accident to the Riga-hfoscow tra it The cause of the accident is unknown The party was travelling in an a?.rotrain, a new invention consisting of a light carriage' with a tractor propeller in front. The inventor was among those killed. GENERAL SMUTS* FUTURE. Vancouver, July 18. A message from. Philadelphia states that Colonel House, in a cable to tire Philadelphia Public Ledger, expresses the opinion that the time is not far distant when a “colonial” may become Primo Minister for Britain. Colonel Bouse evidently refers to General Smuts. He urges that Mr. Meighen. Mr. Hughes, Mr. Massey and General Smuts should all attend the Washington Conference. UNEMPLOYED SOLDIERS. London, August 4. Lord Haig, on the seventh anniversary of the declaration of war, appeals to the nation not to forget its debt to the. men who stood between it and disaster. Over a million ex-service men are still unemployed and they, with their families, are suffering acute privations.