GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 September 1922, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

TRENCH SEAMEN’S HOURS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Paris, Sept. 10. M. Millerand, receiving a deputation of the Seamen’s Federation,, announced the abandonment of thp eight hour day owing tp; the refusal o£ f foreign nations to follow|the lead of France. DARING FfiAUD.. .. ;. LoijSfe;:' Sejlt.' 10. A daring fraud was perpetrated, on the London branch of Trust Company of The branch received a cab^Lii'bni; ,<fhina instructi®£ the transfeij.W J)W to a man in The the bank’s Qvirii special cjphet-AnX.thS--fll o ne.y was pai<K The fraud not disenyered until advices was no confirmation of the cabjMram. When the culprit got the -he cabled it back to China in two separate amounts. The bank succeeded in recovering £s>,000. The ringleader of the gang ; .4»f operators.. has since been heard of in Canada. . i / > ji. . .... . THE INDIAN’S STATUS. London, Sept. 10. lord Meston, a retired Indian civilian and formerly member of the Governor-•General’-s Council, in an address to the pritish Association, appealing for. the extension of complete Imperial citizenship to Indians, said that despite statesmen’s professions, the belief prevailed in India that helotry not citizenship was the status designed for Indians in certain Dominions and colonies. He cited Fiji,. South Africa, and Kenya, and advocated an impartial Imperial tribunal to arbitrate such cases.