GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 9

GENERAL CABLES

Bi Telegraph.—Press Association Copyright.

After an all-night session of the Ontario Provincial Legislature, the Brackin amendment to the Budget speech favouring the sale of liquor in Ontario under a system of Government control was defeated by 84 votes to 10.

The Japanese Upper House passed a Bill granting gratuities to the bereaved families of Japanese killed in the Nikolaievsk massacre in 1920. The Government is issuing State loan bonds of approximately one million yen for this purpose.—Reuter.

A Rome dispatch to the Sydney “Sun” states that Dumini, Volpi, anti Poveromo, convicted after trial for murdering Signor Matteotti, were sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. Four years are remitted under the recent amnesty; they awaited trial for 21 months; thus the net term of imprisonment will be 82 davs.

Numerous Druses attacked Kattana, to the south-west of Damascus, reports a Reuter message. The town was surrounded and set on fire. Four squadrons of cavalry, supported by airmen, counter-attacked. The Druses were' repulsed and fled, leaving over a hundred dead.

“The Times,” in a leader, declares that the franc is falling because neither Frenchmen nor foreigners believe that any Government can- carry out indispensable reforms through the present Chamber. Moreover, the Government is dallying with revolutionary Socialist doctrines, which are fatal to the confidence essential for saving France.

Combination office and apartment buildings, eighty stories high, linked by elevated traffic causeways, with landing bases for aeroplanes, is the aim of a new corporation to solve the traffic problem (states a New York message to the Sydney “Sun”). They propose to spend an initial 50,000,000 dollars on grand central skyscrapers linked over the streets.

The Jervis Bay, en route from England to Australia, carries a painting of Captain Cook’s Endeavour before sailing from Whitby Harbour on her voyage of discovery in the Pacific. The painting shows Captain Cook ashore in the foreground. It has been purchased for the National Library at Canberra.

The Cairo correspondent of “The Times” states that Moslem leaders have issued a manifesto against the Turkish movement replacing the fez by European hats as an imitation of infidels. They also declare that the Turkish innovation of mixed marriages is opposed to the teaching of the Koran.

In response to an urgent appeal by Professor Pinard, the French Chamber of Deputies passed a Bill making it illegal to manufacture or import any object giving a babv the illusion that it was suckling on the ground that manv babies died from swallowing dummy teats The teat making industry will be given three months to transform its plants. :

The fact that between 300 and 400 Leipzig policemen fell ill on the day President Hindenbnrn visited the Leipzig Fair was revealed by the Saxon Minister for the Interior in the Diet He stated that analysts found that, the food the men bad eaten had been mixed with a strong purgative As a result the men were unable to carrv out their duties when the President arrived. The Public Prosecutor was inquiring into the affair as to whether it had any political motives.