GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, 9 June 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

A PATRIARCH IMPRISONED. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Moscow, June 8. Tikhon, the Russian patriarch, with two other ecclesiastics, were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, and the property of the cloister whereto they belonged was confiscated. ITALIAN SETTLERS FOR RUSSIA. Rome, June 6. The Soviet has signed a contract with an Italian agricultural and a metallurgical organisation. The former sends immediately 50,000 farmers to cultivate 200,000 acres in the Don region, while the metallurgical association furnishes the necessary implements. TCHITCHERIN IN BERLIN. Berlin, June 7. Tchitcherin has arrived from Genoa and he will discuss the details of the Rapallo Treaty with German Ministers. A MURDERER EXECUTED. London, June 7. Notwithstanding strenuous efforts for a reprieve, including appeal to the King, Jacoby, the murderer of Lady White, has been executed. A REPORT DENIED. Paris, June 6. The Journal des Debats declares that the report of the agreement between France and the Sultan of Nejd is devoid of truth. GREEKS HARASSED IN ALBANIA. Athens, June 6. It is reported that the Government protested to the League of Nations and Council of Ambassadors respecting the persecution of the Greeks in Albania, declaring if it continues the Government will be compelled to take military action against Albania. -HUNGARIAN ELECTIONS. Budapest, June 6. The elections resulted in the maintenance of the Horthy-Bethlen regime. They were also noteworthy for a Socialist incursion into Parliamentary life for the first time. The Legitimists, who favor Karl’s son, did fairly well, but the Cabinet suffered a moral defeat, only three out of 11 members being re-elected. SOUTH AFRICAN PEERAGE. Capetown, June 6. In the Assembly, Mr. Boydell, the Labor leader, asked the Premier if the Government had recommended Lord Robinson for a peerage, and, if so. for what particular services; if not, what were the Imperial Government’s reasons for his elevation. General Smuts replied that no recommendation had been made. BRENNAN’S HELICOPTER. London, June 6. The Air Ministry denies that the Brennan tests are so satisfactory that the £50,000 prize for an efficient helicopter has been cancelled. It still proposes to make the offer. At the inquest on the Channel aeroplane disaster, evidence showed that one victim was decapitated. The theory is propounded that the pilot had a sunstroke. A verdict of accidental death was returned. THE POPE’S HEALTH. London, June 7. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail states that the Pope is ill. He is suffering from his imprisonment in the Vatican, and the doctors have ordered a strict regimen of regular exercise. He was formerly used to the most active life, and finds a sedentary one affects his health.