GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1922, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

AN UNFOUNDED RUMOR, By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Washington, March 4. President Harding has authorised an official denial of the London report that he has ordered the recall of Colonel Harvey, Ambassador in London. CHAR-A-BANC IN COLLISION. New Yo'zk, March 4. A char-a-banc collided with a train at Cleveland, 15 persons being killed and 12 injured. PUGILIST TURNS PREACHER. New York, March 4. Jim Jeffries, the pugilist, has joined Billy Sunday in Evangelist work. THE HONGKONG STRIKE. New York, March 5. A United Press message from Honghong states that British trobps fired on Chinese strikers, killing three and wounding eight, and seized a quantity of arms, ammunition and machine guns which had been placed at strategic positions throughout the town. BRITISH CONSULATE CLOSED. New York, March 4. The Mexico City correspondent of the New York Times states that the British Consulate haslbeen closed. The Consul declined to give reasons, but it is believed the closing is due to the failure of the Government to end the strike on the street cars, which are controlled by British capital. SHANTUNG TREATY. Tokio, March 4. The Foreign Office has announced that the Government is taking prompt steps to carry out the Shantung treaty. A committee, composed of high officials, has been organised to carry out the terms, commencing with the withdrawal of troops. ACTRESS ACQUITTED OF MURDER. Paris, March 5. Interest has been aroused by a trial »n which the so-called unwritten law was involved. Madame Perron, a pretty actress and singer, was accused of murdering her husband, director of a Bordeaux theatre. The prisoner gave evidence that her husband visited the Dijon Theatre, and fell in love with the daughter of the Dijon director. Her repeated efforts to induce the girl to leave her husband failed, and Madame Perron then took a pistol from her vanity bag and fired three times, killing her husband. She was acquitted.