GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1922, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

COAL STRIKE IN AMERICA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. New York, April 22. The fourth week of the coal strike begins on Saturday. The miners’ leaders claim that the strikers now number OSO,OOO. ‘ So far industries have not been seriously affected. ENVER PASHA’S ACTIVITY. Delhi, April 23. Enver Pasha’s efforts are meeting with some success. Simultaneous risings occurred in the east and south-west of Bokhara and in the city itself. The insurgents, however, are not well armed. They have been robbed by the Bolsheviks, who will take shifting before a Mohammedan kingdom can be established in Bokhara. ANGLO-EGYPTIAN WIRELESS. London, April 23. The Anglo-Egypt lan wireless service commences on the 24th, when telegrams will be accepted at any post office in Britain for Egypt, Palestine and Syria. A corresponding service will be available in the opposite direction. DISCOVERY OF ANCIENT REMAINS. London, April 23. Government road repairers to the old Roman road near Dartford excavated interesting traces of Celtic, perhaps of an earlier civilisation. .A female skeleton, 6ft 3in. in height, was discovered buried in the attitude of prayer in the solid chalk seven or eight feet below the surface. Crude ornaments and unknown coins were found deeper, also fragments of a Roman tesselated pavement. WHITE SEA FISHERIES. London, April 23. Concurrently with the discussions at Genoa, an international naval demonstration is being staged in the White '■’a, where it is reported from Christinia a concentration of British, Finnish nd Russian warships is proceeding to protect the fishing. The Russians made a complaint broadcast that Britain had taken forceful measures to protect shipping. On the contrary it is stated in London that the .Soviet repeatedly seized British fishing vessels outside the statutory limits and refused compensation.