GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 July 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

FIGHTING IN CHINA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received July 10, 8.20 p.m. New York, July 10. Canton telegrams report that shell fire from Fort Chien Chiung Ming destroyed Sun Yat Sen’s munitions base. Sun. with three cruisers, has departed for Hongkong GERMAN DYE PATENTS. Received July 10, 5.5 p.m # New York, July 9. Mr. Dougherty has begun a criminal investigation to force the return of the German dye patents. Mr. Garvan has been sub-poenaed to present the books of the chemical foundation before a Federal Grand Jury at Washington. CYCLING COMPETITION. Paris. July 9. Spears has won the cycling Grand Prix. AMERICAN DYE BUSINESS. Washington, July 8. The Department of Justice denies Mr. Garvan’s allegation that the demand for the seizure of the Chemical Foundation’s German patents is due to a conference between the Attorney-General. Mr. Dougherty and lawyers representing German interests. SPIRITUALISTIC PHENOMENA. London, July 8. French, scientists, after exhaustive investigations to ascertain whether ectoplasmic emanations appeared from a medium, reported in the negative. A well-known spiritualist previously insisted that he had seen a living and moving substance emanate from the body of a medium, assume human form and then vanish. CABLE COMPANY’S JUBILEE. London. July 9. The Exiles’ Club presented Sir John Pender with an illuminated address to mark the fifty years’ jubilee of the Eastern Extension and allied cable companies. It contained 8000 signatures of the members of the staffs of the associated companies and insignia of the orders held by Sir John Pender worked out in diamonds and platinum. The proceedings also included the inauguration of a bed in St. Bartholomew’s Hospital endowed as a memorial of the late Lady Pender.