GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 December 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

FINED FOR SEDITION. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Johannesburg, Dee. 20. In 35 sedition cases all pleaded guilty and were fined £lO or a month’s hard labor. FRENCH NAVAL STRENGTH. Paris, Dec. 20. Pertinax, in the Echo de Paris, says that a great sacrifice has been asked of France in the ratification of the Washington Treaty. The past year’s events can now be viewed impartially, and anyone with unbiassed judgment, of whatever nationality, must recognise that France has been treated with very little consideration in being forced to accept a decision which, without taking into account the colonies in two seas which she has to defend, gives her the same naval power as her southern neighbour. EX-KAISER SAWING WOOD. London, Dec. 20. The ex-Kaiser’s honeymoon is apparently over. According to a Hague correspondent, he has resumed his daily woodsawing, to which he devotes more time than ever before. There is must liveliness at Doorn, and many guests from Germany are arriving for Christmas. NAVAL SUPPLIES STOLEN. New York, Dec. 20. Twenty-two civil employees in the Brooklyn naval yards have been arrested in connection with wholesale thefts of Government supplies, valued at a million dollars. The Federal agents declare that they have unearthed a gigantic conspiracy, involving a hundred of the employees and various contractors, who were engaged in systematic pilfering. EXPEDITION ACROSS SAHARA. ♦ London, December 18. The 200 miles expedition across the Sahara to Timbuctoo from Tuggurt, which started out in five cars with caterpillar wheels and armed with machineguns, has arrived at Wargla. SIR ERIC GEDDES’S SALARY. London. December 18. The Dunlop Rubber Company’s shareholders agreed to pay Sir Eric Geddes £5OOO as director’s fee, plus £lO,OOO for 12 months’ special service. One shareholder was of opinion that when everyone was facing reductions it was not opportune to grant increases to the directors. Everyone, he added, linked Sir Eric Geddes name with the economy axe.