GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 April 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Washington, April 27. The State Department has announced that the United States has recognised the' new Egyptian Government. SOVIET MINISTER TO GERMANY. Berlin, April 27. Krassin is mentioned as the first Soviet Minister to Germany. AMERICAN UNEMPLOYED. New York, April 26. Official figures disclose that million men in the. United States are workless, including 700,000 coal miners. MISSISSIPPI (FLOODS. New York, April 26. A million acres of cotton lands in the Mississippi Valley have been inundated following a fall of 8% inches of rain in two days. BOTTOMLEY FOR TRIAL. London, April 26. Horatio Bottomley was committed for trial in the Victory bonds case. When the magistrate intimated he would commit Bottomley, the latter requested an adjournment to enable him to consider’ whether to call evidence or make a statement. The case was adjourned until Saturday. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

ALLEGED MURDER CASE. London, April 27. The inquest on Mrs. Armstrong has concluded. A verdict was returned of arsenical poisoning. PLEA FOR BETTER SPIRIT. New York, April 27. At Pleasant Point, Ohio; President Harding, attending the ceremonies commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the uirth of General Grant, in a speech said the nations of the world in efforts to recover from, the disastrous effects of the world war need more of the spirit of magnanimity with which Grant welcomed victory at the close of the civil war. PRISONERS’ HUNGER STRIKE. Capetown, April 26. A hunger strike is reported amongst several hundred prisoners awaiting trial at Johannesburg in connection with the recent revolutionary movement. The men allege indiscriminate arrests, excessive bail and 'bad gaol conditions. The prisoners’ hunger strike was short-lived. It commenced on Tuesday and ended on Wednesday night, when there was a great rush for dinner. WOMEN AS LAWYERS. Capetown, April 27. The Assembly, without a division, carried the second reading of the Bill , to admit women to the legal profession.