GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

POLISH-CZECHOSLOVAK ENTENTE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Warsaw, Nov. 13. M. Skirmunt (Polish Foreign Minister) has concluded an entente with Czecho-Slovakia. INCOME TAX RETURNS. London. Nov. 14. James Durie Patullo and Desmond Forde, chartered accountants, and their managing clerk, James Alexander Wilkie, were remanded at the Guildhall Police Court on a charge of defrauding the Inland Revenue Department by falsifying income tax returns. Counsel stated that Patullo's deficiency over seven years totalled £26,509. AFFAIRS IN HUNGARY. Vienna, Nov. 14. The Hungarian Cabinet has resigned it is believed formally, Admiral Horthy probably entrusting Betblen with the formation of a new Ministry.—Aus.N.Z. Gable Assn. UKRAINIAN ADVANCE ON KIEFF. By Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright London, Nov. 15. Lemberg advices indicate that the Ukrainian insurgents are advancing on, Kieff. There has been three days’ heavy fighting forty miles from, the town with a Bolshevik division sent to defend Kieff. STRIKES ON THE CONTINENT. Paris, Nov. 15. Fifty-five thousand metal workers from 90 works in the Dusseldorf district have called a general strike. The textile industry of Ghent is idle, 12,000 workers having struck over the employers’ method of applying the eight-hour day. EGYPTIAN INDEPENDENCE. Cairo, Nov. 14. The followers of Adly Pasha (Premier) and Zaghlul Pasha separately celebrated the anniversary of the demand for independence, in 1918. The former, who included members of the Assembly, passed a resolution in favor of a rupture of negotiations in the event of Britain insisting on the retention of troops. In the event of failure those present decided they would not enter into other negotiations. ALBANIAN FRONTIER DISPUTE. Paris, Nov. 15. The Petit Parisien states that Jugoslavia definitely refuses to recognise the new Albanian frontier and contests the validity of the decision reached at the Ambassadors,’ Conference.