GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 260, 28 July 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright The bandits who held up the ParisMarseilles express robbed fifteen passengers. One Englishman lost £l5O.

l ln tho South Australian Legislative Assembly, Mr. Birrell gave notice of a motion in favour of a scheme of motherhood endowment.

It is reported from Newhaven, Connecticut, that Jack Dempsey, the boxing champion, has been married to Miss Sylvia Jocelyn, the kinema actress.

In the case before the King’s Bench Division, in which the owners of the Lewis gun claimed tho return of three millions taken as excess profits, the verdict was for the Crown, with costs

It is reported from Helsingfors that M. Bersin, Soviet representative at Finland, has started for London to replace M. Leonid Krassin as head of the Russian commercial delegation.

Owing to the continued wet weather in New South Wales, there are indications that the area to be sown in wheat this season will bo considerably below that of the previous season.

A message from Rome states that a Communist party of peasants ambushed and attacked Fascisti at Roccastrade, killing one. The Fascisti retaliated and killed nine, and then burned Communist houses.

An explosion occurred in tho laboratory of a naval shell establishment at Gosport. Four men were blown to fragments and four were badly injured. A quantity of detonators wns being wheeled fu trucks when the explosion happened.

A New York message states that 750,000 dollars’ worth of silver has been received from Germany for the purchase of dollar credits for reparations purposes. It is expected that Germany will ship approximately ton million dollars’ worth of silver within a short period.

The Profiteering Court in Sydney has fixed tho retail prices of moat. Beef ranges from Is. Id. for fillet steak to 31d. for corned brisket; mutton from Bd. for short loin shops and GJd. for legs, to 2Jd. for corned breast. The prices are to operate-from July 30. The butchers declare that the new position is serious for them.

President Harding has sent a message requesting Congress to broaden the powers of the War Finance Corporation, enabling it io buy railway securities now held by the director of railroads, so that funds may be available to settle debts to railroads without. Treasury appropriations, also so that tho corporation may extend financial relief to farmers.

The Premier of South Australia, speaking in the Legislative Assembly, said that if the Government was forced by the Wages Board to pay marginal increases in connection with the living wage, hundreds of men would have to be put off. If that were not done, and no increased taxation was imposed, the deficit at the end of ihe present financial year would amount to between £BOO,OOO and £1,000,006-