GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 June 1922, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

NEW SWIMMING RECORD. New York, May 31. Helen Wainright, a sixteen-y ear-old girl, of New York, broke the woman’s world swimming record for 150 yards free style in a 75 feet pool, doing the distance in 109 3-5 seconds, a reduction of one-fifth second. HEOORD MOTOR SPEED. New York, May 31. Jimmy Murphy, an American,, winner of the French Grand Prix in 1921, won a five hundred automobile race at Indianapolis, averaging 94.‘-4(8 miles an hour—a world record for the distance. JAPANESE LEAVING CHINA. Tokio, May wi. Japan has announced her intention to withdraw troops from Hangkow in keeping with the spirit of the resolution of the Washington Conference. The Foreign Office has expressed the hope that the Chinese Government will do everything in its power for the protection of the lives and property of foreigners in China in order to prevent a reciirrence of such unfortunate incidents as have happened in the past. THE COPYRIGHT LAW. Washington, May 30. President Harding has. issued a proclamation extending to New Zealand the benefits of the American copyright law of 1919, whereunder privileges are accorded such nations as adopt reciprocal laws. This action is the result of a New Zealand Order in Council in 1921 extending, copyright privileges to Americans.