GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 August 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

DISORDERS IN CHINA. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Aug. 27, 5.5 p.m. Pekin, August 26. Foreign gunboats, including the American flagship Isabel, have been ordered to Yangtze Gorge to terminate the banditry and setting fire to foreign merchantmen.

BEVAN REMANDED.' Received Aug. 27, 5.5 p.m London, August 25. Bevan was remanded for a week. CALAIS DOCK FIRE. .Received Aug. 27, 5.5 p.m. Paris, August 25. The Calais dock fire is under control. THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY Received Aug. 27, 5.5 p.m. Paris, August 25. The French Cabinet approved a Bill applying the eight-hour day to the mercantile marine. EXPULSION FROM RUSSIA. Received Aug. 27, 5.5 p.m. London, August 25. Official circles in London confirm the arrest in Russia of several hundred members of the intelligensia, including prominent professors and engineers. They are being expelled from the country. EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE. Received Aug. 26, 5.5 p.m. London, August 25. Edmond Raymond Wilkinson, a Liverpool business man, who paid a hurried visit to Australia, was arrested on his return and charged with embezzlement at Liverpool. SHIP’S CREW OBJECTED TO. Received Aug. 26, 5.5 p.m. London, August 25. Transport workers at Cardiff instituted a boycott against an Italian steamer manned by a Fascisti crew, and decided to ask the employers to request the captain to leave port in order to avoid a far-reaching strife. FORTUNE FOR A SERVANT. Received Aug. 26, 5.5 p.m. London, August 25. 1 Lord Swansea, in his will, directed that none of his half blood relatives should attend his funeral. He bequeathed to his old servant, Daniel Ellis, £2OOO, together with a further £2OOO legacy under the will of the peer's aunt. He also gave Ellis his coronet and coronation robes and all his papers and documents. MURDERER CONFESSES. Received Aug. 27, 5.5 p.m. London, August 26. The Home Office states that Allaway, before his execution on August 19, for the murder of Miss Wilkins, confessed to his guilt. HENRY FORD’S ACTIVITIES Received Aug. 27, 5.5 p.m. Vienna, August 25. It is reported Mr. Henry Ford, who is now spending a holiday at Carlsbad, is negotiating with a view to using the Steyr small arms factory as a nucleus of a huge motor car factory. MINERS ACCEPT LESS PAY. Received Aug. 27, 5.5 p.m. Ottawa, August 26. The Labor Department has announced that the coal miners and operators in western Canada have signed an agreement by which the miners accept a fifteen per cent, reduction from 1921 in the wage eoalei