GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 April 1922, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

POKT OF PETROGRAD. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, April 4. Interviewed at Moscow by the Excelsior, Trotsky admitted that the British Government made a proposal asking on certain conditions for the ex-territorial-isation of a considerable zone in the port of Petrograd, which zone would eventually .become a British base. He added that the Soviet had not yet replied, but was considering the question. —Times Service. A VIOAR’S SACRIFICE. London, April 4. The Rev. Mr. Mortimer, the new Vicar of Tipton, in whose parish the Dudley explosion occurred, gave a square foot of his skin for grafting on the bodies of four survivors still in hospital. It is possible that, owing to the extent of the sufferers’ burns, others may be asked to make a similar sacrifice. STRBxiE OF ORCHESTRAS. London, Afrril 3. Two minutes before the curtain rose at the Palladium and 11 other suburban music halls, owned by the Gulliver circuit, the entire orchestras struck owing to the management reducing the conductors’ salaries without consulting the union. The music halls continued with pianos, and, where no piano was aavilable and dances necessary, the performers hummed the tunes. RUSSIAN ART TREASURES. Paris, April 4. The newspaper La Presse states that in order to obtain funds the Bolsheviks are arranging to sell the treasures in the Academy of Fine Arts, Alexander Museum and other collections. Advices from Petrograd report a series of collisions which occurred in Petrograd between the populace and the Bolshevik militia in consequence of the Bolsheviks’ attempt to confiscate church treasures. FIRES AT PETROGRAD. Helsingfors, April 3. A series of fires have broken out in Petrograd railway stations, bank premises and harbor buildings .being involved. A Bolshevik newspaper attributes the outbreaks to incendiarism by Social Revolutionaries. AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE. Washington, April 4. Mr. Lasker, chairman of the United States Shipping Board, told the House Committee that the United States was at the point of bankruptcy as a merchant marine Power. The country could save the merchant fleet by a direct subsidy and indirect aid at a cost of 40 million dollars yearly. INSURANCE COMPANY’S BANKRUPTCY. London, April 3. At a meeting of creditors of the City Equitable Insurance Company, the official receiver said that Ellis and Company were its debtors to the extent of .£850,665 with most inadequate securities. This fact was disguised in the balance-sheet. A SWEDISH LOCK-OUT. Stockholm, April 3. The Swedish papermakers' lock-out is only partial and there is some likelihood of it ending this week. TROUBLE IN EAST AFRICA. London, April 4. Advices from Nairobi state that the trial of the natives concerned in the recent outbreak resulted in 37 convictions and sentences ranging from three months to two years’ rigorous imprisonment. SOCIALISTS AT VARIANCE. Berlin, April 4. A conference between representatives of the three Internationals, with a view to calling an International Labor Conference parly, got at loggerheads ever a demand by N. Vandervelde, the Belgian delegate, that guarantees would be required of the Bolsheviks. Upon this Radek, a Bolshevik delegate, replied tauntingly, and M. Vandervelde said it appeared to be hopeless to try to bring about a united proletarian front... Mr. Ramsay Macdonald requested time to consider Radek’s further suggestions to secure co-operation between the Internationals, but the conference is likely to be without result. ITALIAN MAIL ROBBED. Paris, April 5. Thieves held up a Paris-Mediterran-ean mail train between Paris and Laroche and stole 30 mail bags from England to Italy. AN ARCHDEACON'S CASE. London, April 5. Mr. Shortt, Home Secretary, has decided that Archdeacon Wakeford's petition does not justify re-opening his rase. LATEST MOTOR RECORD. New York, April 5. At Dafton Beach. Florida, Sig, Haugdahl (Norway), broke the world’s motor record for ten miles. His time was 3min. 56sec. D’ANNUNZIO’S NEW ROLE. Rome, April 5. A report from Milan states that D'Annunzio has relinquished the leadership of the Fascist! arid it is now alleffed that he has gone over to the Socialists and Recited the leadershp of the Seamen’s Federation, numbering 60,000. FINANCE IN GREECE. Athens. April 5. The Government has introduced a Bill providing for a compulsory loan, providing that all holders of the National Bank notes must hand half the value of the notes to the Treasury, which will pay 7 per cent, interest thereon. BETS PAID BY CHEQUES. London, April 5. In a test case in the Chancery Division a trustee in bankruptcy sought to recover money which bankrupt had paid in cheques in respect of bets. Mr. Justice Ast'bury decided that a trustee in bankruptcy could not recover under the Gaming Act money paid by a bankrupt • prior to the bankruptcy. Leave to auwiu granted.