GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 January 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

AMERICA AND GERMANY. By Telegraph.—Press Asan.—Copyright. Washington, Jan. 1. Diplomatic relations have been resumed with Germany with the arrival and acceptance of the credentials of Herr Carl Lang.

REVOLVER SHOTS IN CAFE.

Paris, Jan. 2.

A man entered a cafe and emptied his. revolver at a customer with whom he had quarreled. The shots missed him, but killed the proprietor and another man and also wounded two others.

BOMB THROWN IN MARKET.

Berlin, Jan. 2.

A bomb thrown in the crowded mar-ket-place at Dinkensburgh, Bavaria, wounded 50 persons, 20 seriously.

APPEAL FOR ENDOWMENTS.

London, Jan. 1

As president of the Sir Arthur Pearson Memorial Fund, Lady Pearson appeals to the British Dominions for aid for the endowment of all the charities for which Sir Arthur labored during his lifetime.

A special appeal is made to editors of newspapers to publish the appeal, and, if possible, to open local subscription lists. Agents have been appointed in the various Dominions to whom subscriptions should be remitted. The New Zealand agent is Mr. Clutha Mackenzie, Auckland.

PRIZE FO| HELICOPTER.

London, Jan. 2. The Standard states that the Air Ministry is offering a prize of £50,000 for a practical design of a helicopter aeroplane, open to inventors all over the world.

Received January 3, 5.5 p.m.

London,* Dec. 3.

The Daily Chronicle states that the Helicopter design, for which the Air Ministry is offering £50,000, must he able to remain stationary for half an hour in a wind blowing twenty miles an hour, and must be able to maintain a horizontal flight at sixty miles an hour. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

END OF GERMAN STRIKE.

Berlin, Jan. 1. The railway strike has ended.

A GREAT CANAL.

Berlin, Jan. .1.

A company, capitalised at two hundred million marks, has been formed in Munich to construct a Rhine-Main-Danube canal, linking the North and Black Seas. It is estimated the work will take twenty years to complete. The Central and Bavarian Governments, industrial, banking and shipping interests are represented on the board of directors.

TROOP-CARRYING AEROPLANES.

London, Jan. 2. The Star states that 150 troop-carry-ing are jbeing constructed for the xJr Ministry, each capable of carrying ten soldiers. The fleet is intended to maintain order in Mesopotamia.

WORTHLESS RUSSIAN CURRENCY.

Copenhagen, Dec. 31. A message via Helsingfors states that the Soviet commissaries held a financial conference in Moscow, and decided that extraordinary steps arp essential to rehabilitate Russia’s financial position. The time is rapidly approaching when the cost of printing roubles will exceed their exchange value. The Soviet’s gold reserve, consisting of gold commandeered from the banks after the revolution of 1917, has now dwindled to 30,’000,060 roubles.

ALLEGED ARSENIC POISONING

London, Jan. 2.

Herbert Armstrong, a solicitor, clerk of the court at Hay, Brocknockshire, has been arrested and charged with having attempted to murder Martin, a local solicitor, with arsenic. Armstrong’s wife died seven months ago, and it is reported that her body is being exhumed. '

AMERICAN LABOR MESSAGE.

New York, Jan. 1

In expressing confidence in the New Year outlook, Mr. Gompers, reviewing the situation, said extreme Radicalism and extreme reaction had joined hands in an attack against Labor. Many who called themselves Liberal had nlayed the game of the enemy and were also serving as respectable pawns in a disreputable game. Bolshevist propagandists had gnawed their movement without avail. American Labor wanted no dictatorship either by plutocrat or proletariat.

Mr. Gompers complained that injunctions go on and the courts become more agreeable to the suggestion that injunctions be issued. This is tne only attack upon Labor that retains its vigor.