GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9391, 13 December 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

(Received December 13. 10.10 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, December 12. The British naval base has authorised merchantmen; to proceed to Bolshevik Russian ports. Two-are already going to Odessa. LONDON, December 11. John Berman and Jacob Pragcr were each sentenced ■&)» five years'? imprisonment for forgery:. [Berman, manager of the Whitechapel_ Road branch of, Lloyds Banli, , London,; and Prager,' a 'customer, werp j jointly charged with being' concerned i in forging an' accepta'n'ee bill for £940. ' The accused admitted similar forgeries ! involving^, total of-£45,000.] . _■ '■'NEW' YORK, December 12. •' Signpr Enrico, ,Caruso, % the „ ti world- j famous- tenor/-' while' 'sMging 'A<~Elisirj d rAmour," r broke a bloodvessel in his ' throat. K rv is; feared- ' that. <-hey may-| ' never sing again. i „>«> ROME;. • December: 1.0..* -. {. The crew of the destroyer ' Espero" mutinied" and, arrived" at Fiume to join d'Arinunzio, who, on boarding the ve's-' sel, found'Sthe commander lashed to a'< gun, because he refused" to join the mutineers. The commander reproached; d' Annmizib with high treason LONDON", December 10. The railway companies rejected the Transport Ministry's proposal to accept ; workers elected by tne workers as s directors as unjustifiable, intolerable, j and wrong in principle, because the'j workers; would not accept financial re-j] sponsibilfty to safeguard the interests ] and rights of shareholders i TOKIO, December 11. i Police broke up the first attempted j mass meeting of Socialists representing j all parts of Japan. ■•'•'• „ , (Received December 13, 9.20 a.m.) j LONDON, December 12. t Snow has fallen in North Wales and the Midlands. There is also a heavy Pall" in the Isle of Wight. Four inches has fallen in some London suburbs. ' (Received December 13, 9.20 a.m.) DELHI, December 11. Labour troubles at Madras culminated in serious rioting. Native -em- ' ployees who have been" on strike for aver one month attempted to rush the mills. , The. police fired volleys, killing two and wounding 20. , The military, ivith machine-guns, are now :patrolling bhe mill district. . c (Reuter.^ J (Received December 13, 9.20 a.m.) *■ LONDON, December 11. * The Rhodes Trust annual report s states that owing to the increased cost I )f living a scholarship worth £300 is * io longer sufficient to maintain the *■ iolder, and the Trust must be pre- ■* sared to contribute- £50 annually. "s Dec. 13, ICLIO. a.;m:) BUCHAREST, Dec. 10. The bomb which was thrown in the ■Senate also seriously wounded the Vfinister for Justice, who is not exoected to live,, and the President of }'he Senate, who is slightly -wounded. 3ne bishop was killed and two others vounded, while three other persons ■.? rvere mortally wounded. The outrage ' ,vas the work of an isolated anarchist. :■■■■'■] DELHI, Dec. 10. \ The Indian Government has declared ihe volunteer bands organised in con- c lection with the Tionrco-operation cam- p >aign on quasi-m.ilita.ry lines unlawful, p because they interfered with the hold- x ng of a public meeting, with the at- p :endance at schools and colleges, with, t ;h.e freedom of voters, and were aJso ■ s jmployed in attempts to secure a social boycott of those who declined to ac- ( jept the promoters' political views, p [nnocent people who joined under the r mpression -that the bands were. oi*- £ for' legitimate social service aa-e f [yarned to ..disassociate themselves c

therefrom.- r■" '" : J ,'' . (Received Dec. ■ ' 13; 11:40 a.m.) ; y ;.,;< ■ V.^jV ■ .GENEVA',; Dec. 12. -Mafconi'^. Coi^pany^flpn^ucted an. in-., t'erestirig '■ ivirele&s ielephpnic,'' experiment between London' and ■;Geneva 1: notwithstanding the interference by higii-poVered stations. ;Lord Birmham and Professor Graham Bell's messages to internatiorial'f'jou-ftialists were easilj',, heard. . •. ; ,~[j '•m... ; ■{ "■ 'i!