GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A BLOODLESS REVOLUTION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received Oct. 21, 1.10 a.m. LisboTi, Oct. 20. The Government has been overthrown as the result of a bloodless but successful military movement. Probably a new Ministry will be formed from the revolutionaries, with Maria Coelho as Premier. AMERICA’S UNKNOWN SOLDIER. Received Oct. 20, 11.10 p.m. Paris, Oct. 20. The Government has conferred the Medaille Militaire and the highest decoration of the Croix de Guerre with palms on the American unknown soldier. The Cross of the Legion of Honor will be laid on the coffin when it is embarked on the cruiser Olympic at Havre.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TREACHERY TO HIS COUNTRY.

Received Oct. 20, 11.10 p.m. Paris, Oct. 20. Gaston Goumay, who twice deserted in the face of the enemy and then sold important plans to the enemy, was twice sentenced to death for those crimes, twice reprieved, and during the Armistice again communicated with the enemy, has been tried by court-martial and transported for life to a penal settlement in Guiana.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EXPLOSIVE IN PERFUME BOX. Received Oct. 20, 10.25 p.m. Paris, Oct. 19. A box of perfume addressed to Mr. Myron Herrick, at the American Embassy, was delivered to his private house and opened by his valet, whereon a violent explosoin destroyed the box and contents, injuring the valet. Mr. Herrick previously received and ignored letters requesting his intervention on behalf of two Italian communists under trial for murder in America.