GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1922, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

A DISMAL .SUMMER, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Oct. 1. Between June 1 and September 30 London had only 603 hours of sunshine, 127 hours below the average. AEROPLANE STRIKE-BREAKERS. Paris, Oct. 1. Aeroplanes as strike-breakers is the latest phase of the Marseilles strike. Aeroplanes are being sent to relieve the stranded passengers. Out of 7000 passengers anxious to cross to Corsica, Tunis, and Morocco, 1500 have asked for aeroplane passages. The French Aeronautical Department is attempting to find the necessary machines. AVIATOR’S UNIQUE EXPERIENCE. Paris, Get. 1. James, the favorite in the Deutsh speed prize race, while driving a 450 horse-power Bamelmars machine, nearly lost his life owing to strangulation in mid-air. He tied a map around his neck and, while travelling at 210 miles an hour, the force of the wind blew his papers and caused the string to tighten round his neck. James managed to prevent himself being suffocated, but lost his map and abandoned the contest. PRINCE AT LEGION RALLY. London. Oct. 1. The Prince <of Wales attended the British. Legion’s rally at the Crystal Palace, and was enthusiastically welcomed, it being his first public engagement since his return from India. GIRL SWALLOWS THERMOMETER. London, Oct. 1. The Lancet states that a. girl of 21 years at Vienna swallowed a clinical thermometer. After she had been Xrayed an operation enabled the removal of the thermometer unharmed. It registered 107 degrees Fahrenheit. The Lancet adds that this is a record temperature. LANDLORDS’ STRIKE THREATENED. Vienna, Oct. 1. An astonishing strike is threatened. The authorities have refused to allow property owners to raise rents in proportion to the depreciation of the currency. Thus a tenant who paid 1000 crowns before the war should now pay 1,900.060 crowns. The authorities admit that rents are not economic, as it is impossible to repair the houses, but they consider the owners’ demands extortionate. The owners say they will not light the houses, and will close them at six o’clock and will not pay taxes or gas, water and lighting bills. They will also remove the telegraph poles, even the letter boxes from the houses.

REVISED CHINESE TARIFF. Pekin, Oct. 1. Subject to the approval of the Government’s concerned, the revised tariff will be enforced on December 1. Goods shipped on or after that date will be subject to the tariff.