GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 May 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A SHIPPING MATTER. 4 Received May 21, 5.5 p.m. London, May 20. Mr. Larkin, on behalf of the Commonwealth Government Line, and Mr. Phillips. Eurqpean manager of the Canadian Government Line, have sent a joint letter to the newspapers regarding the legal immunity of State-owned ships. They point out that both their organisations since inception have definitely adopted a policy of voluntarily submitting to the ordinary jurisdiction of any Court regarding their liability in legal action for the recovery of claims for salvage, damage to cargo or claims of any other nature A SERIOUS EXPLOSION. Received May 21, 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 20. At Cambridge, Massachusetts, A. K. Dunbar, a research engineer and a fellow of Harvard University, and a workman in -an adjoining room, were killed and seven students injured by an oxygen explosion during Dunbar’s experiment with liquid air A NEGRO BURNED. Received May 21, 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 20. At Texarkana, Texas, a mob smashed the gaol doors, seized a negro, shot him and burned his body amid frenzied cheering and gunplay. TREATY OF SMALL POWERS. Received May 21, 5.5 p.m. Paris, May 20. The Petit Parisien states that during his stay at Genoa M. Benes arranged a treaty alliance for twenty years between Czecho-Slovakia, Roumania, the Kingdom of the Serbs, the Croats and the Slovenes.

BRITISH BY-ELECTION. Received May 21, 5.5 p.m. London, May 20. The London City election, due to Lord Balfour’s peerage, resulted: —Edward Grenfell, 10,114; Sir Vansittart Bowavjr, 6178. AIR SERVICES IN RUSSIA. Received May 21, 5.5 p.m. Rome, May 20. Sigboir Staanpa announces that fan agreement has been concluded under which Italy will build and staff aviation bases at and other parts of Russia, supply aeroplanes and pilots and arrange flying routes.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. STUDYING TROPICAL DISEASES. Received May 21, 11.5 p.m. New York, May 20. Dr. Client, of the Australian Health Department, has arrived from Liverpool on a two months’ stay in America to study the methods of the late General Corgas for fighting malaria and other tropical diseases. He then goes to New Guinea to take charge of the medical and hygienic administration.— Aus.-li.Z. Cable As sn. ESPIONAGE AND TREASON. Received May 21, 5.5 p.m. Rome, May 20. •Count Moroz Zedel Laroeco, formerly a departmental chief at the War Office, who was first charged in 1918 with selling military documents to the Austrians and was released owing to lack of evidence, has now been sentenced to eight and a half years’ imprisonment on charges of espionage and treason. RUSSIA AND SWEDEN. Received May 21, 5.5 p.m. Copenhagen, May 20. It is reported that the-Swedish Parliamentary Committee has rejected the Government’s proposal for a Russo-Swedish trade agreement. RUSSIAN COMMUNISM.

Washington, May 19. President Harding, addressing the United States Chamber of Commerce, declared that he had received advices from Russians that there could be no reconstruction of the country until the Communistic idea was abolished. He expressed the belief that if America had had a merchant fleet in proportion to its importance there would not have been any wdrld war. Mr, Hughes, addressing the same body, expressed similar convictions regarding Russia. SEMENOFF’S ARREST ILLEGAL. New York, May 19. The Appellate Court has ordered the release of Semenoff, granted him ten dollars costs, and ruled the order causing his arrest illegal.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TURKISH ATROCITIES. Paris, May 18. France has instructed the French High Commissioner at Constantinople to cooperate with his British and Italian colleagues on the commission of inquiry into Turkish atrocities, hut proposes sending a similar commission to Smyrna to investigate the alleged Greek misdeeds.