GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XL, Issue 9171, 2 December 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

(Per Press Association---Capyright)

LONDON, ..November 27

' A-t an auctiflii sale' in London "it single diahVond'i'ealise'd £ 7300. Tlie price is 'understood-to.be. : a :record. ; ■

The ■•Manchester Guardian" says that never in the whole: hi s't'-ory of the British Army * has' such a \ brilliant batch of officer 'students' been in the Staff College at Caniberlcy^ as at present. They i-chule five holders of the Victoria Cross, including Colonel B. C. Freybt-rg., .All, .the Dominions are represented.

: ...Mr. irPnr:-yfoofc." . Johnson. tho America-ri Anti-Saloon League organ*" iser, who has been active ,in jEriglah-', had.. an '.eye., injured . .when" :he .was " ragged " "by students. The eye- has been removed.

Tlie • Marquis of Conyngham is the co-respondent in a Society divorce case, in which Sir Hume Campbell, Bt., is the petitioner. Tho Marquis of Conyngham in November, 1914,----married"an' Australian'girl, Miss Bessie Tobin, but he lias not lived with , his wi?e since January, 1918. The case was not defended. This address of the Marquis of Conyngham and Lady Campbell was given as Gal way.

.PARIS, November 27. Following on thousands of A'ny,rica-n applications for permission to exhume and repatriate the bodies-of.'a 11 American soldiers .killed ; 'in' France, the. Foreign .Office"" lias ' "announced that British and French families are simi- " larl'y applying, but in.view of the in- . sufficient transport, for urgent food and economic needs it.is unlikely that permits will-b^issH ted before 1922. ■'■■-.. ;•'■ ■' LONDON,' November 27. The Ne*w Zen land Shipping Company's steamor, Swakopmund, another ex-German liner j' is oh fire at the docks, and her destruction is feared. Tlie fire; is in.-the . copra, which is : burning furiously., , , LONDON, November 27. The produce trade is hopeful that the control of butter and cheese may be removed in. the early spring. It is understood that the Government recently paid about 330s per cwt f.o.b. for Danish butter, with delivery till February. In the House of Commons, Mr Austen Chamberlain ; stated that the Treasury had refused to purchase 2000 tons of Dutch butter because the price asked was 335s per cwt f.o.b. TOKIO, November 26. A message from Seoul states that the vice-Governor, . Mizuho,; has instructed tho provincial .governors to abolish discriminations between Japanese and Koreans. Officials have been ordered, to give equal payment to Japanese and Korean employees and to , reform the police ayßtem. (Received December 2, 2 p.m.) , CAPETOWN, December 1. Details of *the disaster to the Smith-j sonian expedition show that the train I was teloseopod by a runaway truck. I The deaths art; of Doctors Armstrong | (not Shante) and Stowell. i ("Times.") " LONDON, December 1. j Cabinet is considering three schemes of Empire wireless; the first, the erec- I tion and management by the Govern-! Mont; second, license to private enter-j prise • third, private enterprise, with j State" co-opera tion under State control.