GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9432, 1 February 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Per Press Association L*jpy right.) ATHENS, January 30. The Greek Crown Prince will marry Princess Elizabeth of Roumania at Bucharest m the second \ysek m February. The Roumanian Crown Prince will wed Princess Helena of Greece, at Athens, shortly after. LONDON, January 30. The Hodbarrow iron ore mines at Millom, the largest m the world, have closed down, rendering idle 2000 workers. The Marquis of Milfordhaven has reached Jerusalem with the body of his sister-in-law, the Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia, whom the Bolsheviks murdered near Perm. The body will be interred at Gethsemane. (Received February 1, 9.5 a.m.) CONSTANTINOPLE, January 30. Kemal Pasha is preparing a general offensive on all the Asiatic fronts. (Received February 1, 10.15 a.m.) PARIS, January 31. The Grand Cross, of the Legion of Honour has been bestowed on M. ' Jaspar, Belgian Foreign Minister. Altogether 14 Bolshevik propagandists have been qxxested. (Received February 1, Noon.) , (Router.) LONDON, January 31. Constantinople advices state that the Grand Vizier xjas informed the Allied High Commissioner that the Turkish Government' has accepted the invitation to the "Near East" conference m London on February 21 and will appoint a delegation m agreement with the National Government at Angora with which telegraphic communication is being restored. (Received February 1, 2.5 p.m.) PARIS, January 31. The arrests of Communists disclosed the existence m France of a Communist Association allied with similar associations m Russia^,. Britain, and other countries. Abyomovitch, who was ar-:' rested at Nice, was Trotsky's envoy at the Tours' Socialist Congress, and it is believed hits been the head of an organisation for procuring false passports for international revolutionaries.