GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

IPRES DAY. —— * By Telegraph .—Press Assn.—Copyrtgiit. Received August 6, 5.5 p.m. London, August 5. October 31 will henceforth be knoevrai as Ypres Day, when cornflowers will be sold by disabled men in aid of the wounded and the provision of a hostel at Ypres. PRICE OF BREAD IN ENGLAND Received August 6, 5.5 p.m. London, August 5. Mr. Blakemore, a former president oi the National Chamber ofc Trade, predicts that the price of the quartern loai (now 9|d) will he reduced to 6d by the end of the year, owing to exceptional wheat crops in America and Canada. TELEPHONE INVENTOR’S BURIAL Received August 6, 5.5 p.m. New York, August '5, All telephone services in the United States and Canada were suspended for one minute at the hour of the (burial of Dr. Bell, the inventor of the te!ephoiie s at Baddeck, Nova >Scotia. CHANCE FOR BRITISH SHIPS., Received August 6, 5.5 pin. Manila, August 5. The Customs have granted an application by British ships to carry cargo, mail and passengers from Manila to southern ports during the in ter-is land trip, due to the American offinMß* strike. BRITISH PARLIAMENT ADJOURNS. Received August 6, 5.5 p.m. T ondon, August 4L The House of Commons has adjourned and re-assembles on August 14. CHANNEL TUNNEL SCHEME. Received August 5, 5.5 p.m-. London, August 4. Two hundred and seventeen memberti of the House of Commons have petitioned Mr. Chamberlain urging the advisableness of constructing a Channel tunnel at the earliest opportunity. TROUBLE WITH BAVARIA Received August 5, 5.5 p.m. Berlin, August 4. The Bavarian reply to Herr Ebert’s letter is conciliatory. Herr Ebert Sum invited Herr Lerchenfold to come to Berlin to arrange a settlement. CHANNEL SWIM FAILURE. Received August 6, 5.5 p.m. Paris, August 4. A Boulogne message states a French Swimmer named Michel abandoned an attempt to swim the Channel. He reached half way after nine hours in the water. DISASTROUS TYPHOON. Hongkong, August 4. A typhoon at Swatow caused heavy mortality among the native population. Two British steamers were driven ashore. The damage to property was serious. ATTEMPTED CHANNEL SWIM. London, August 3. Miss Mercedes Gleitize, a London typiste, attempted to swim the Channel, but gave up after six miles owing to a rising wind and a choppy sea. WELSH COAL BOOM. London, August o. The South Wales coal boom has attracted a big inrusl. of unemployed from all parts of the country. The newcomers were mostly disappointed, the labor market being overstocked. SUIT FOR LIBEL. London, August 3. Mr. J. H. Thomas (Labor M.P.) has received £2OOO awarded him as damages for libel in his suit against the Communist newspaper. The money will be devoted to charity. BRITISH ENGINEERS. London, August 3. A conference of employers and engineers, in consequence of the wages deadlock, is discussing the introduction of piece-work nationally throughout the industry. ALLAWAY’S APPEAL DISMISSED. London, August 3. The appeal of Thomas Henry Allaway against conviction and the death sentence for the murder of Miss Irene Wilkins at Bournemouth was dismissed. UNREST IN THE PHILLIPINEB. Manila, August 2. Vincente Llanes, a member of the PhilJipine Independence Committee which visited Washington, has announced that plans have been made for a non-co-operation movement in the Philippines similar to that of Ghftndi in diaPOLITICS IN CHINA. Pekin, August 2. Cabinet has announced that Parliament and President Yuan Tung are completely in accord over the adoption of a constitution similar to that of the United States. The right of each province to maintain its own assembly will be recognised, thus meeting the demand of the southern provinces for provincial autonomy. STOLEN TREASURE FROM RUSSIAStockholm, August 2. The Aftonblad states forty million gold roubles worth of stolen Russian church treasure is being sent to London and the United States. BRITISH FORCED TO ENLIST. London, August 2. Mr. Crawford, replying to a question in the Hovtse of Lords, said it was a fact that the French authorities in Tunis had arrested British subjects and forced them into military service. This was the outcome of certain decrees passed in 1921, which had been challenged, and would be submitted to arbitration. If France refused he intended to appeal - to the League of Nations.