GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 May 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

CURING HOOKWORM. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received May 1, 7.20 p.m. Suva, April 30. There have Been over twelve thousand successful treatments of hookworm, by means of carbon tetrachloride, effected by Government agencies. The result shows that ninety-eight per cent, of the worms were expelled after one dose, and ninety per cent, of individuals cured by one dose.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. BOLSHEVIKS CONDEMNED. Received May 1, 7.30 p.m. New York, April 30. Mr? Samuel Gompers (American Labor leader), after a conference with Labor leaders at Chicago, issued a statement flaying Bolshevism, and stating that in view of the developments at Genoa, nothing could constitute a more needless or base betrayal of civilisation than American recognition of Bolshevik tyranny.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable BOTTOMLEY FOR TRIAL. London. April 30. Horatio Bottomley, M.P., lias been committed for trial on charges of fraudulently converting to his own use £218,415. He is allowed bail in £lO,OOO. Bottomley, in a lengthy statement, declared that the Prosecutor had exploited a mare’s nest, mainly because Bottomley chose to keep alive an account originally opened in the name of the Victory Bond Club. He concluded rhetorically that, realising the new awakening during the tragedy of Armageddon, he consecrated himself to the service of the country, became the King’s chief recruiting agent, and stood by the boys in the trenches. It was inconceivable that a jury should convict him of robbing them and their families. If he had done so “May the tortures of the damned be visited on my soul when I cross the barrier.” AFRICAN TRIBAL BATTLE. Capetown, April 30. There has been a serious native tribal battle in the Greytown district, in which twenty were killed. The police are hurrying to the scene, but hostilities have ceased. DEVASTATING LOCUSTS. Capetown, April 30. Mafeking reports the possibility of an invasion of locusts on an appalling scale from the Kalahari Desert. Travellers report that an enormous mass of insects 300 miles long, is moving forward. The wells are choked, and

vast areas are ’denuded of grass. The natives are forced to live on wild melons. VIOLENT AMERICAN MINERS. New York, April 28. Violence among the striking miners ifi becoming more frequent. Three nonunion miners were killed and one injured when a bomb was thrown into a bunkhouse at Apollo, Pennsylvania. HUNGARY AND RUSSIA. Washington, April 28. Count Szechenhi, Hungarian Minister here, has issued a statement giving an official denial that Hungary has entered any treaty with Soviet Russia, or that any negotiations were con-ducted.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BRITISH BUDGET FORECAST. London, April 29. The political critic of the Westminster Gazette forecasts Monday’s Budget to include a reduction of one shilling in the income tax, a penny on sugar, twopence on tea, some postal concessions, small reduction in the entertainments tax, the total reductions amounting to 60 millions sterling. The critic suggests that the sinking funds may be suspended, though, interests will have to be paid. JAPAN FULFILLING TREATIES. Honolulu, April 29. The newspaper Jiji’s Tokio correspondent reports that Japanese troops have completely withdrawn from the Tsingtao and Tsinanfu railway zones; also that the Japanese Navy Department has dismissed 12,000 officers and men pursuant to the Washington retrenchment policy.' —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ITALIANS ATTRACTED TO AUSTRALIA. Genoa, April 30. Signor Sturzo, of the Italian Popular Party, and Signor Michaels, of the Emigration Department, interviewed Sir ’Joseph Cook with. a view to ascertaining what opening there was for Italian agriculturalists in Australia, to which Italians were looking, owing to the restrictions in the United States and Canada. Sir Joseph Cook promised to consider the matter, after consulting the authorities in London.