GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

BIG GERMAN VESSEL LAUNCHED. My Telegraph.-*-Press Assn. —-Copyright. Dantzig, June 18. The steamer Columbus, 32,000 tons, has been launched. She is the first mammoth vessel completed since the war. She will fly the German flag. COMMUNISTS FOR VOLGA COLONY. New York, June 17. Fifty American artisans and labourers have sailed for Russia to join the Volga colony, started by American Communists under a two years concession 'from the Soviet Government. PRIEST CHARGED WITH MURDER. Ottawa, June 17. At the trial of Father Delorme witnesses gave evidence that Delorme defied the church authorities, treating them as underlings and was ruthless towards tenants on his property. It is understood that Delorme accused others of putting feathers and blood in the car in which his brother took his last ride. AMERICAN PROHIBITION. Washington, June 17. In connection with the disclosures regarding the sale of liquor on board ships, the Treasury Board has issued a new regulation, providing that American ships cannot transport liquor from one foreign country to the same or another foreign country, or in or through American territory by land or water, even though the liquor 'be not landed in the United States. BRITISH TELEPHONES. London, June 17. The House of Commons voted 15 millions sterling as part of the programme involving the expenditure of 35 millions the extension and reconstruction of the telephones, laying the lines underground, providing trunk cables and a new exchange. Mr. Kellaway, Postmaater-General, has declined to proceed with the automatic exchanges, declaring their coat prohibitive. IMPERIAL INSTITUTE EXHIBITS. London, June IS. Attention is drawn to a fact consequent on the proposed removal of the War Museum from the Crystal Palace to Imperial Institute. The Dominions’ exhibits at the Institute will be displaced, including the whole of the New Zealand and part of the Australian collection. It is contended this will be fatal to the educational work in connection with the Dominions now being carried on. CHANNEL AIR ACCIDENT. London, June 18. The coroner at Folkestone refuses to credit the report published in the French newspapers that the Channel air crash was caused by a passenger shooting the pilot. He says the doctor found many injuries on the body, but no signs of bullet wounds. THE EGYPT’S LASCARS. Delhi, June 17. A hundred of the Lascar stewards in the Egypt’s cr6w have arrived at BonD bay. They emphatically deny that they fought with knives and revolvers to enter the boats. They admit that when the passengers were taking to the boats some of the crew entered too. They declare they, had no revolvers. MARS BEHIND THE TIMES. New York, June 17. At the period the pldnet Mars approached nearest to the earth Mr. Marconi, on boarding his yacht in the Hudson River, was listening with radio instruments steadily for nearly a fortnight, but failed to hear anything which would lead to the belief that the Martians were endeavouring to communicate with the earth. ROBBING CHURCHES. Rome, June 13. The Pope has written to Tehitcherin, protesting against the imprisonment of Russian Bishops and offering to buy church treasures from the Soviet.