GENERAL CABLE NEWS
THE PERSIAN TROUBLE. (Per Press Association —Copyright.) WASHINGTON, July 26. State Department officials are preparing formally to ask the Persian Government to take immediate measures to protect American citizens in that country from attacks by, and insults from, natives, who are understood to he hostile towards foreigners since the killing of the United States Vice-Consul, Mr Imbrie, at Teheran.
NEW BUILDING MATERIAL, MOSCOW, July 25. The Soviet lias commissioned the experimental construction of a few wooden houses with thermolite packed between the outer and inner beams. Themolite consists of sawdust, straw, leaves and plaster soaked in an antiseptic. The inventor claims that when harden''’ thermolite is proof against damp, insects and fire. BREAD INCREASE IN ENGLAND. LONDON, July 26. The master bakers, on August 4th, are inerteasing the price of the four pound loaf throughout the country by -)d. The London price is 9-,d. ANTHRAX IN AMERICA. (Received Tins Day, 10.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 27. Anthrax is raging among the cattle in the State of _ Mississippi. Five negroes stung by flies from carcases have died,
NO REPRIEVE RECOMMENDED. (Received This Day, 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, July 27. Mr Arthur Henderson, after considering the medical reports as to tne mental condition of Goldenberg, refuses to recommend a reprieve. LONG OVERLAND TRIP. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) DELHI. July 27. An English engineer, Casper, has arrived at Calcutta from Pekin, havine; don© tlie journey on horseback. The trip vva-s undertaken to prospect routes of telegraphs from India to China. Apart from the difficulties of travel, no untoward incident occurred. The tribes encountered were most friendly.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 10169, 28 July 1924, Page 5
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