GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 March 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

JAPANESE POLITICS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 10, 10.35 p.m. New York, March 10. The Chicago Tribune’s Tokio correspondent states that Premier Takahashi has emerged from his squabble with the House of Peers stronger than ever by announcing that if the peers did not like bus actions they could do what they pleased. The public generally applauds the Premier’s defiance of the peers.

A LECTURER’S TROUBLES. Received March 10, 9.30 p.m. New York, March 9. The Chicago Tribune’s Tokio correspondent states that when Mrs. Margaret Sanger reaches Yokohama on Friday she will be greeted by the police with a notification that she can land only if she refrains from speaking in public or distributing leaflets on birth control. Mrs. Sanger’s first meeting, which is scheduled for Friday in Tokio’s Y.M.C.A., will be challenged by the police and other meetings planned throughout the country will probably meet the same fate. Meanwhile official opposition to Mrs. Sanfer’s mission has resulted in wide publicity being giyen 1 t it, practically every publication discussing her doctrine. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. SUMMER TIMF London, March 0. The House of Lords read a second time a Bill permanently establishing summer time between the last Sunday in March to the first Sunday in October. Paris, March 9. The Chamber by 205 to 260 voted against the reimposition of summer time an hour later. The Chamber passed summer time for 1922 by 299 votes to 229. COMPULSORY VOTING. London, March 9. Mr. Chamberlain, in reply to a question in the House of Commons, said he did not think that legislation for the purpose of making voting at elections compulsory was desirable. BOLSHEVIK FORCES. Helsingfors, March 9. Close to the frontier east of Lake Ladoga the Bolshevists have concentrated 30,000 men with sixty guns *and a living division with five armored trains. West of Lake Ladoga there is a force of 5000 men with 65 guns and two armored trains. There is also a reserve force in Petrograd ready to advance agajnst the FTnnish border and a fleet, stationed at Cronstadt, in fighting codition. AMERICAN SUGAR. New York, March 8. The American Sugar Refining Co. announced a loss of 2,187,275 dollars in 1921 owing to the decline in prices. AN APPEAL FROM KOREA. Tokio, March 8. The Koreans have presented an appeal to the Throne asking for the Do- | minion status for Korea. The Diet and Privy Council will answer the delegation. A SHELL EXPLOSION. London, Marell 9. A shell which was being dismantled at Pembury munition factory exploded and a portion of the roof was blown off. Three workmen were killed and five injured.