GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 August 1922, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

BARTER IN HUNGARY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Budapest, Auust 19. Many tradesmen are demanding wheat instead of depreciated currency in payment for goods. A suit of clothes costs 330 lb of wheat. THE HERRIN MASSACRE. New York, August 18. At Marion, Illinois, the grand jury has been summoned for August 28 to hear evidence regarding the Herrin massacre. THE SOVIET CHURCH. Petrograd, August 19. The New Soviet Church at Moscow has cancelled the excommunication of Tolstoy. — .-ij-... ■ CHAR-A-BANC FATALITY. London, August 20. A ehar-a-banc, conveying 25 passengers, returning to Ashford (Kent) from Hastings, overturned into a ditch filled with water. Eight persons are dead by drowning or suffocation, and six were injured. ENGINELESS AEROPLANE. Berlin, August 19. An engineless aeroplane launched from a peak of the Rhon mountains attained a height of 100 metres and flew for 66 minutes. CAPETOWN MINING CONFERENCE. Capetown. August 10. It was announced at the conference which is sitting at Johannesburg that the Mining Industry Commission inquiry representing employers and employees in gold and coal mining had reached aft agreement for the establishment of a Conciliation Board. STATUS OF RHODESIA. ‘ Capetown, August 19. Speaking at a crowded meeting in the Town Hall at Johannesburg, Mr. Hertzog strongly condemned General Smuts’ policy regarding Rhodesia as unconsti- , tutional and the terms offered would put Rhodesia in a more favorable position than the other provinces. THE FALLING MARK. Berlin, August 20. The instability of the currency has prompted teachers’ associations to fix a sliding scale of charges dependent on the cost of bread.

Amsterdam, August 20. Owing to the depreciation of the mark remittances to Germany have been forbidden.

LABOR AND THE UNEMPLOYED. London, August 20. Mr. Thomas, M.P., addressing railwaymen at Chester, said unemployment coil Id only ibe settled by Labor attaining power, changing fundamentally Britain’s foreign policy. We are suffering from the blind, silly policy pursued at Versailles. INVESTIGATING EPIDEMIC CAUSES Geneva, August 19. At a meeting of the Health Committee of the League of Nations, Sir George Buchanan announced that Britain would advance £lOO,OOO for the maintenance of the quarantine and the control of the movements of refugees on the Russian frontier, conditionally on the other members of the League subscribing £•200,000. The committee decided to recommend the dispatch of a commission to the Far East to investigate the question of the frequency of epidemics, particularly those constituting international danger. A MURDERER EXECUTED. London, August 19. Allaway has been executed for the murder of Mies Wilkins at Bournemouth.