GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 July 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH POLITICS r ’ By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright Received July 6, 5.5 p.m. London, July 15. The Conservative group, usuallj 1 known as the “Diehards,” of both j. Houses, ha«s elected Lord Salisbury ai n leader. i- ~ d > r COMPANY AMALGAMATED. e Received July 16, 5.5 p.m. l t London, July 15. a The Distillers' Company. Ltd., of 'Eding burgh, has absorbed the Distillers’ Finance Corporation, of Belfast. The e price is just under £3,000,000. 'j NEW GERMAN MINISTER. f Berlin, July 14. s Herr Weidfeld. Ambassador to Waoha ington, succeeds Dr. Rathenau. z ’ J SAILI-NG OF THE QUEST. Capetown, July 14. f The Quest ha? sailed'for England, via Rio de Janeiro and South Trinidad. ’ AMERICAN BARGES FIRED ON. Canton, July 14. , Yip-Kue’s troops, opposing Sun Yat Sen, fired on two barges flying the Amer- . ican flag a hundred shots. The boats were not damaged. EMPIRE PRESS UNION. London. July 14. The Empire Press Union’s annual report. without making any announcement regarding the venue of the Imperial Press Conference in 1925, expresses the hope that it will be possible to accept the invitation from Australia. INVISIBLE AIRCRAFT. PARIS. July 14. The military have achieved considerable success in the direction of rendering aircraft invisible in a series of testa over Paris. Every effort is being made to perfect the discovery, which would give a tremendous war-time advantage to the nation possessing it. APPEAL TO SOVIET. London, July 14. Mr. Ben Turner, chairman of the first offiiial Labor delegation to Russia in 1920, and Mr. George Lans-bury jointly cabled to the Soviet Government, urging the Republic to abolish capital punishment and not to execute its religious and political opponents, but to show Socialistic generosity.