GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 November 1921, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

CHEAP CHRISTMAS TOYS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. London, Nov. 25. The cheapest toys since 1913 characterise the Christmas displays. This is principally due to cheap importations, owing to the exchange with Germany. Toys are retailing below pre-war prices, and meanwhile thousands of British toy-makers, including ex-servicemen who learned the trade after the war, are unemployed. Retailers are buying half-guinea jointed dolls, with opening and shutting eyes, for tenpence, compared with five shillings in 1913. British makers still excel in the dearer and better quality goods. BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION. London, Nov. 26. A commission, headed by Mr. E. A. Belcher, assistant-director of/the British Empire Exhibition (1923) starts a tour of the Dominions- on January 21. His visit to Australia will extend from April to June and he thence proceeds to New Zealand and spends six weeks in the principal towns. He will discuss arrangements with the Prime Ministers and business men. He will propose a limited scheme for free passages to be granted at the option of chambers of commerce. DECADENT VICTORIAN SOCIETY. London, Nov. 25. Lord Alfred Douglas, questioned during his evidence in the libel action whether he knew many people who followed a certain form of vice, said: “Yes, it was very prevalent ( in my own society, in the public schools, and at Oxford. If I told you the names they would cause considerable sensation in court.” ITALY AND TURKEY. Rome, Nov. 25. Italy has broken off negotiations with the Kemalists. f MR. HYNDMAN’S FUNERAL. London, Nov. 27. Representatives of Socialist organisations and trade unions forming a procession half a mile long, escorted the funeral of Mr. Hyndman. The coffin was draped with the red flag. Messrs. Clynes and Thorne spoke at the crematorium. The assembly sang “The Red Flag”, “England Arise”, and “The Marseillaise”. LABORITES COURT-MARTIALLED. Athens, Nov. 26. Fifty-five Laborites were court-martialled on a charge of engineering the recent strike of public utilities. Ten were sentenced to eight years’ penal servitude and 26 to five years. The rest were acquitted. CANADA’S UNKNOWN SOLDIER. Ottawa, Nov. 25. It is announced that the body of an unknown Canadian soldier will be brought from France and buried beneath the Victory Tower of the new Parliament Buildings. REVALUATION OF ROUBLE. Petrograd, Nov. 25. Zinovieff has announced that the revaluation of the rouble commences in January. This means a new issue, of which each rouble will be equal to 10,000 of the present roubles. REDS PUT TO FLIGHT. Helsingfors, Nov. 25. The Russian Press admits that the Bolsheviks are fleeing before the Karelians. PERSIAN OIL CONCESSIONS. Delhi, Nov. 26. Advices from Teheran state that the Soviet Minister, in a Note to the Persian Government, protests- against the grant of northern oil concessions to the Standard Oil Company as contravening the RussoPersian Convention of 1921, in which the Persian Government agreed not grant subjects of othar nations concessions formerly held by Russians and cancelled under the convention by the Soviet.