GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 June 1922, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

CHARGE OF BIGAMY FAILS. B? Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Los Angeles, June 5., Rudolph Valentino, charged ,vith bigamy, has been freed, as the evidence was 'insufliefent. NORWEGIAN CONSUL TURNED DOWN. Christiania, June 4. The newspaper Sjofaerts Tidende states that the British Government has refused to acknowledge Mr. Maseng, who was recently appointed Norwegian Consul-General in Melbourne, owing to his pro-German attitude during the war.

BRITISH LEGION. London. June 4. Lord Haig presided over the conference of the British Legion of ex-Service men. Representatives of the unions of French and Belgian combatants attended to convey fraternal greetings and were enthusiastically received. The French representative, speraking with emotion, said the brotherhood of France and England was sealed in blood on the battlefield. ’ The French people would not forget the magnificent effort of the British troops to save France. They would never forget the hours of suffering and glory they had lived together. If the living should now break their countries asunder the dead would rise up and curse them. The respective Governments must rise above the exaggeration of certain sections of the press and stop the strife between the two, coufitrUs.