GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 July 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

WITHDRAWAL OF TROOPS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Washington, July 11. Mr. C. E. Hughes has announced that the representative political leaders of the Dominican Republic had accepted the State Department’s programme for the withdrawal of the United States .troops from San Domingo. A plan similar to the Cuban arrangement will be put into force if the Dominican people accept it. A DAUGHTER’S REVENGE. Mexico City, July 11. Maria Moreno, who shot the murderer of her father, the editor of a Mexican paper, has been sent to a reform school pending her trial. Society women are preparing a memorial to Pr'~ : ' l ent Obregon asking for clemency for the girl. THE MINE MASSACRE. New York, July 12. The investigation of the Herrin mine massacre will probably begin on July 17, when it is expected a special Grand Jury will be summoned. DEATHS IN TRAIN COLLISION. Madrid, July 12. Trains were wrecked in a collision in the station at Paredes de Nava. Twenty are known to be killed and 50 injured. FIGHT WITH COMMUNISTS. Rome, July 12. Following on the arrest of the Mayor of Lentini, armed Communists there attacked the troops and were repulsed after a long fight, losing four killed and a number wounded. GAMES ON SUNDAY. London, July 12. The London County Council has resolved that boating on the lakes and games in the parks shall be permitted on Sundays. RECRUITS FOR U.S. NAVY. Washington, July 11. After one year’s suspension, recruiting for the Navy has been resumed for the enlistment of 65,000 men needed to maintr; - the Navy strength at 86,000. EMPIRE COTTON GROWING. London, July 11. The House of Commons read for the first time the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation Bill, providing for a levy of fid on spinners for every 500 lb weight of cotton towards the funds of the corporation. BEVAN CHARGED IN VIENNA. Vienna, July 12. Bevan, the British financier who went abroad to escape arrest, was sentenced to three days’ imprisonment for giving a false name. He was acquitted on charges of using a false passport and resisting the police. DELAY IN EXTRADITION. Vancouver July 12. Mcßride, who is wanted in Australia on fraudulent stock charges, is still held in ! custody at New Orleans. His wife was released. The United States Commission says a mishap to the papers of the British Embassy is responsible for the delay in extradition.

SOVIET SPARES CLERGY. Helsingfors, July 12. The Petrograd Soviet resolved not to carry out the death sentences on the clergy, but the sentences on the social revolutionaries will remain unchanged. DIRIGIBLE DESTROYED. Tokio, July 11. Following a gas explosion, Japan’s only dirigible was totally destroyed by fire inside the shed. It was recently purchased from England at a high price. SALE OF STEVENSON’S LETTERS. London, July 11. A collection of Robert Louis Stevenson’s letters and the manuscript of a juvenile play, “Monmouth.” have been sold at Christie’s for £782, of which the play fetched £255. AU were purchased on benalf of an American collector, with the exception of one letter.