GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

MILITARY MISSIONS ATTACKED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, May *2B. The inhabitants of Landeshut, Bavaria, attacked French and Italian officers belonging to the military missions, compelling them to abandon their duties. SLAVS REDUCE HOLIDAYS. Prague, May 28. The Government of Czeteho-Slovakia, which is recovering from the effects of the war far more rapidly than the other Central European States, proposes to abolish the majority of public holidays, including Easter and Whit Mondays and Ascension Day, for the purpose of increasing production.

LOCUSTS DEVOUR RUSSIAN CROPS. London, May 28. Many districts in Russia are inundated by vast swarms of locusts threatening complete destruction of ths crops. The Soviet is making a novel use of aeroplanes to destroy them. SEARCH FOR ROYAL DIAMONDS. London, May 28. Theatre goers at Covent Garden last night witnessed a unique spectacle, the Queen, Princess Alice, the Duke of York, the Lord Chamberlain, and members of the Royal suite minutely searching the footpath, gutter and interior of the car for diamonds believed to be missing from the Queen’s necklace, which the moment before had snapped. Oblivious of the onlookers, the Royalties continued their search for several minutes, then the Queen gave up and went inside, the others following shortly afterwards. Then the Queen counted the diamonds and found them intact.