GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 181, 28 April 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

BY TELEGRAPH—PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYBIGHT. A Berlin message says that M. Krassin is mentioned as the first Soviet Minister to Germany. Millions of acres of cotton lands in the Mississippi Valley were inundated following a fall of 8J- inches of rain in two days. Official figures published in New York disclose that three and a half million s’of men in the United States arc out. of work, including 700,000 coalminers. Mr. Henri Verbrugghen lias cabled to Sydiiqy asking for an extension of his leave for the purpose of conducting for a short season in America. He conducted a Detroit orchestra with great success. The Parliament of Iceland has passed a resolution abolishing the law prohibiting the importation of wines con- ■ taining up to 21 per cent, of alcohol. | The prohibition law has been in force t for ten years. The action of a number of Sydney hotelkeepers in voluntarily closing tho hotels for the whole of Anazc Day has met with much commendation. One of the closed hotels displayed across its front a,sign with the words “Lest we forget.” The loss of life as the result of the Texas flood totals fifty-seven. The damage to property is estimated at a million dollars. The city engineer is convinced the flood was not only the result of heavy rains, but certain levels had probablj’ been dynamited for some reason not known. It is reported from Brussels that Dr. • Giannolla, assisted by two other doctors, performed a remarkable operation on a baby boy seven days old. The child was born with two heads, one normal and the other larger, but undeveloped. (The doctors successfully removed the second head. Horatio Bottomley has been committed for trial in the Victory bonds case. When the Magistrate intimated that ho would commit Bottomley, the latter requested an adjournment to enable him to consider whether to call evidence or make a statement. The case was adjourned until Saturday. Mr. W. M. Hughes, the Federal Prime Minister, who is visiting West Australia, promised a deputation that assistance would be given in bringing out English boys to settle on the land. Ho said ho was in favour of bringing out boys, who had a better chance of becoming imbued with Australian ideas than adults. Senator Poindexter, a member of the United States Senate/ Naval Committee, announced that the entire American Fleet will assemble in Pacific waters this summer for a practice cruise. He indicated that the .action depended on 'getting favourable Congressional action and. appropriations for a Pacific naval base. John "Lawrence Leclair, posing as an Army officer, who married eight women and promised marriage to 78 others during tho last four months, has been arrested at New York on a charge of Bigamy. Ho had love affairs in nearly every State extending from Maine to Florida. He is alleged to have passed bogus cheques in many towns. Resolutions for submission to the annual conference of the Labour Party at Edinburgh on June 27 inckide a demand for the resignation of all the Labour Privy Councillors, the exclusion of a Freemason from holding office in the party, and the resignation of all Labour members of the House of Commons from the industrial side of tho ‘'movement. The establishment of a Labour diplomatic service is also proposed. Mr. F. G. Kellaway, British Post-master-General, replying to a question in the House of Commons, said that Australia was the only Dominion which had entered into a wireless project of its own. Precise information had not yet been received from the Government. The bearing of the project on the remainder of the Imperial scheme would be carefully considered when the negotiations were proceeded with. South Africa and Canada were sending two representatives to England to discuss the question. ' ,