GENERAL CABLES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 237, 21 June 1926, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

The English Chancery Court has granted Beecham’s Estate and Pills Co., Ltd., an interim injunction, pending a trial of the action restraining Freeman and Co., Ltd., from holding auctions on their premises in Long Acre, London.

The Jerusalem correspondent of “The Times” reports that Rida Pasha Rikabi, whom the British appointed Prime Minister of Trans-Jordania, has resigned owing to opposition from M. de Jouvencl (France) and the Emir Abdullah, wno accused him of Francophobism. Rida Tewfik will probably succeed to the leadership.

The Berlin correspondent of the “Morning Post” states that Dr. Rumpier, of Taube aeroplane fame, has announced to the Society of Aeronautics that he proposes to build an aeroplane with a 200 feet spread of wings and 125 feet long, with ten engines,- each of a thousand horse-power generating a speed of 170 miles an hour. There will be accommodation for 130 passengers, the cabins being built in, the wings.

A full meeting of the Labour Conference at Geneva discussed whether the agenda paper of the Special Maritime Conference, to be held in 1928, should include the regulation of hours of work on shipboard, and decided to forward a remit .on the matter to the 1928 conference.