GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 August 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

VENGEANCE FOR LIQUOR LAIS7S. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.— Copyright. Received Aug. 25, 8.40 pan. Washington, August 24< An attempt by the “wet” forces to wrealc? 7 vengeance upon Representative Volstead, author of the law enforcing the eighteenth amendment, was defeated when the Houftty by a vote of 141 to 3, struck from the ipcords a resolution calling upon Mr. stead to resign because of the alleged hap) given him at the last election by the Anti" Saloon League. MOSCOW REVOLUTIONARIES. Received Aug. 25, 8.40 p.m. Geneva, Aug. 24. The Swiss Communist Party adopted a resolution approving death sentences for the Moscow social revolutionaries as the; only effective way of preventing revolutions against the Soviet. The Swiss bitterly resents the motion. CREDITORS PAID IN FULL. London, August 24. The receiving order against Sir William} Hop wood has been rescinded and the tors are being paid in full. CHINESE CIVIL WAR. Shanghai, August 24. Sun Yat Sen informed thj) members o£ Parliament that the war between North and South China had ended, and advised them to proceed to Peking and resuxof parliamentary duties. THE TELEMULTIPHONE. Paris, Aug. 24. M. Sintural, head of the wireless service at general headquarters during the war, has invented an apparatus by which he claims six or even eight telephone conversations can be conducted simultaneously on one wire, without altering the existing circuits. He calls his invention the tehr multiphone. BRITISH BUDDHISTS. Delhi, August !3f. A British mission of visiting Tibet with the object of obtaining complete anthropological knowledge and to establish fraternal relations between Tibet and the rest of the Buddhist world. It also will consider the possibilities of establishing a Budd? hist university and hospital in Tibet. THE INDIAN FRONTIFR. Delhi, August 2«. During air bombing operations on the frontier against tribesmen, as a reprisal for an attack on the Welsh Fusiliers, a De Haviland ’plane crashed at Dardoul, killing the observer and pilot.