GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 May 1922, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

GHANDIS SON IMPRISONED. By Telegrapfr.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Delhi, May 13. Ghandi’s son has been sentenced to 18 months’ simple imprisonment. A POWERFTTL METEORITE. New York, May 13. A meteor flashed across the aky in Virginia, rocking the residences in half-a-dozen cities by the shock when it reached the earth. The meteor struck a grove of oak trees, causing a depression more than 500 square feet in area. Several trees were buried in the immense hole. SANTOS DUMONT ON AIRCRAFT. London, May 13. Santos Dumont, one of the first airmen, who is now cattle-ranching in Brazil, is visiting Paris and participating in the Aero Club’s Grand Prix on the 15th. Although declaring that his flying days are over, he is still keenly interested in air matters, and thinks his tiny Demoiselle was the right idea. Had the constructors endeavoured to perfect small and very light machines, flying would now be a most popular sport. CHARGE AGAINST TROTSKY. Berlin. May 13. Schliapnikoff, leader of the workers’ opposition, accused Trotsky of appropriating for his own use 30 million gbld roubles. At the eleventh congress ot Communists, Trotsky and Zmovieff advocated Schliapnikoff’s expulsion from tho partv on the ground of his attacks against the Soviet bureaucracy. Trotsky’s reply to the charge is awaited with interest in. Moscow.