GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

TURKISH BOUNDARIES. By Telegraph,—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, March 20. On leaving London after a prolonged conversation with Lord Curzon, Izzet Pasha informed The Times that he was satisfied with his visit and did not despair for the re-establishment of' peace in the Near East. He insisted that all Asia Minor, with the old Turkish frontiers, must be assigned to Turkey with Turkey’s full sovereign rights over them. Turkey accepted the freedom of navigation in the straits conditionally on the security of Constantinople being assured.—Times. CO-OPERATIVE WHOLESALE SOCIETY. London, March 20. The Co-operative Wholesale Society’s actual trading loss for the half year to Decembei* amounts to £445,941. Interest charges and depreciation bring the total loss to £1,413,615, which is debited to the reserve fund, reducing it to £64,268. ADVERTISING FRENCH WINES. Paris, March 20. French wine-growers are proposing to send a ship round the world laden with every kind of wine, from which free samples would be distributed. It is proposed to vieit the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States, remaining outside the territorial limits ami providing free tug tickets for those desiring to visit the vessel. LOST POLAR EXPLORERS. London, March 20. A bottle containing a from the Austro-Hungarian expedition of 1574 was picked up at Nova Zembla and forwarded to Vienna. The letter it contained is in an excellent state of preservation, and has been identified by the sole survivor. It recounts how the sJhip was jammed an an ice pack at Franz Joseph Land, and the crew were compelled to abandon the ship. —Times. a prehistorkTreptile. London, March 20. The Buenos Aires correspondent of the Daily Mail recalls the brontosaurus by a message announcing that an expedition has left for the wilds of Patagonia' to search for the plesiosaurus. This is the outcome of hunters* stories of a monstrous prehistoric reptile seen disporting itself in remote pools at the foot of the Andes, but scientists ridicule the possibility.—United Service. [The brontosaurus 6oft in length, and the plesiosaurus up to 40ft. Their fossil remains have been found, but they lived millions of years ago.]