GENERAL CABLE NEWS
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS BRITISH MINERS’ WAGES. (Per Press Association, Copyright,) - LONDON, December 14. In the House of Commons, the debate on the Consolidated Fund proceeded without excitement. Mr S. Walsh (Labour) drew attention to the serious condition of the coal-mining industry, in which the average wage had been roduced from 16s ild a day in March, 1921, to 9s lid in November, 1922, the cost, of living being 80 per cent, above the pre-war level. The House of Commons,,,,has adjourned. -t i •
M. CLEMENCEAU CONGRATU- / LATED.
WASHINGTON, December 14. Ex-President Wilson telegraphed his congratulations to M. Clemenceau upon the admiration in which he was held by the American people.
i A FATAL FALL.
DELHI, December 13. Mr J. Kingston, Reuter’s _ General Manager in the East, and director of the Associated Press of India, was killed through falling from a train while returning from Dellii at night after a day’s shooting. 'When- his sleeping companion awakened, he discovered that Kingston was missing. The carriage door was open, and his body was found on the line five miles in the rear. '* \ . BAVARIAN FASCISTI,
BERLIN, December 13. Ba'aria’s Fascisti, the self-styled “National Socialists,” are carrying their activities into Wurtemburg. . A party from Munich went to Goeppmgen, near Stuttgart, to act as guards to a meeting, and were attacked by workmen, who killed one and'.severely injured several others. Police had to escort the Bavarians to the station. , ONE HUNDRED CASUALTIES. HAVANA (Cuba), December 13. One hundred casualties and foul million dollars’ worth of damage was caused at the Ceneral Azucarera sugar mill, when two boilers exploded while under a test. , ~
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLIII, Issue 9750, 15 December 1922, Page 5
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