GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 November 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

WELSH MINERS’ WAGES. -.g? By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Oct. 31. The South Wales miners have been again hit by the official award under the settlement agreed to in November, wages being fixed at only 10 per cent, above those for July, 1914, while living is officially estimated as 110 per cent, above the same period. GERMAN CONTRACT ACCEPTED. Capetown, Oct. 31. Germany has captured contracts in connection with the Rand water scheme at over half a million. The lowest British tender was £llB,OOO higher. GERMAN ARMS FACTORY. London, Oct. 31. The Inter-Allied Commission on military control, through General Mollet, ordered the cessation of rifle manufacture at Erfurt, which in pre-war days made four-fifths of the small arms of Germany. It has since monopolised the immense manufacture of sporting rifles with machinery easily convertible into war needs. SOVIET AND CZARIST DEBTS. London, Oct. 31. The Foreign Office has not received official information regarding the Soviet’s desire to recognise the Czarist foreign debts. THE MISSING LINK. Received Nov. 1, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 31. Two expeditions starting for Central Africa shortly, led respectively by the naturalists Cherry Keardon and Carl Akley, will attempt to discover the missing link. YOUTH AND THE WAR. Received Nov. 1, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 31. Lady Minto writes to the Times opposing the War Graves Commissioners’ intention to omit the age of the fallen from the headstones. She urges that the age alters the whole current of thought. Youthful achievement in life counts; why not in death? France and Belgium recognise this, as England did in previous wars. The question concerns the overseas Dominions, and Lady Minto invites opinions and suggestions. A PACIFIC ALLIANCE. Received Nov. 1, 5.5 p.m. Tokio, Oct. SI. The Ashi newspaper, discussing Lord Northcliffe, believes that, in the event of a triple agreement between Britain Japan and America, Japan would not oppose the abandonment of the English alliance. NEW AEROPLANE ENGINE. Received Nov. 1, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 31. As the results of three years’ experiments, the Bristol Company has produced an air-cooled nine-cylinder aeroplane engine of 450 horse-power which occupies two feet of space. Four ihen can lift it. It has answered tests equivalent to carrying eight persons 10,000 miles at 100 miles an hour.