GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1921, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

CINEMA STAR ROBBED. Ef Telegraph.—Press Assn.—-Copyright. London, August 13. Florence Turner, the cinema star, who is visiting London, was found bound and gagged at Hampstead, robbed of £lOOO in jewels and money. ITALIAN BANK FAILURE. Rome, August 13. The Kuster Bank of Turin has suspended payment?. The deficit is 50,000,000 lire. Probably 60 per cent, of the liabilities will lie met. MERSEY LIGHTSHIP SUNK. London, August 14. The German ex-raider Moewe, which has been renamed Greenbriar, collided with and sank the Fonnby lightship Planet. The crew were rescued. GREEKS PURCHASE HORSES. London, August 13. It is reported that the Greek army commanders have placed orders for 5000 cavalry and 5000 heavy artillery horses in Ireland. INDIAN FRONTIER QpIETER. Delhi, August 13, Unrest among the Indian border tribes is subsiding. They are apparently tired of fighting and are turning their attention to agriculture, induced by the good rainfall. The Indian wheat crop is 14 per cent, below that of the 1918 season. CANCER LARGELY INCREASED. London, August 14. A medical correspondent of the Times draws attention to the formidable increase in cancer, based on the latest statistical tables. Every civilised country, markedly Europe and America, has practically doubled the rate of mortality. In the United Kngdom, during the past 20 years, the growth of bowel cancer suggests the influence of present-day habits of feeding. GERMAN TRADE BOOMING. London, August 13. A Daily Mail correspondent writes that an Englishman visiting Germany feels admiration, mingled with anxiety, over the way in which the Germans are pushing the rehabilitation of trade. Official figures show that only 440,000 men are unemployed, and the number may be reduced to 300,000 shortly. The workers are well fed and better dressed than the English. Many new factories are being built. Capitalists have provided 60,000,000,000 marks for new industries and extensions. Most trades are booming, and some are working three eight-hour shifts daily.