GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 August 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

INDIAN DELEGATE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Vancouver, August 21. After a conference with the British Columbia Cabinet, Mr. Sastri, in an interview, said that he had abandoned the hope of legislative action enfranchising Hindoos resident in the province. COAL RATIONING. Halifax (N.S.), August 21. Coal rationing has been instituted, each householder being allowed half a ton every twenty days. BRITISH COTTON TRADE. London, August 31. Mr. Walter Gee, in his presidential address to the United Textile Factory Workers’ Association, said the cotton trade was in the most deplorable condition. There w’as littfe hope of a full recovery until the exchange fluctuations ceased. The operatives were worse off than before the Avar. THE SOVIET FLEET. Copenhagen, August 21. The Soviet fleet is engaged in naval manoeuvres on a large scale in the Gulf of Finland. All classes of vessels from battleships to submarines, are participating, revealing that the Bolshevist naval strength is greater than was supposed. AMERICA’S PEACE INTENTIONS. Washington, August 21. President Harding, in a speech at the military training camp, said there is no thought in America of armed warfare. It is not resigned on the part_ of our country to carry on an armed campaign in any direction,” he said. “We are concerned only with peace and the security of peace.” GRAECO-TURKISH PEACE. London, August 21. General Townsend, interviewed in Paris, said that, as the result of his interviews with the Turks, he believed without too much sacrififice of amour propre or tangible interests on the part of either the belligerents in the Graeco-Turkish war, peace can be restored. The danger threatening the position of Britain in India, Mesopotamia and Egypt has been averted, but France and Britain musUact together. ENVER PASHA’S DEATH. Delhi, August 21. The death of Enver Pasha, from bayonet wounds, has created little comment. The Press dismisses it with a short biography and the statement that one of his good traits was uncompromising hostility to Bolshevism. •