GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume CI, Issue 50, 28 February 1921, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

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The Italian Chamber of Deputies rejected a proposal to increase Parliamentary salaries»iy 600 lire monthly.

The United States Senate has voted half a million dollars to defray the cost of shipping to China the grain donated by American farmers.

The American Congress has passed a measure limiting immigration to 3 per cent, of the aliens already in the United States.

The British revenue authorities have remitted stamp duties on the Nauru agreement amounting to several thousands of pounds.

Threpis and Kyriakis have bean sentenced to five years solitary confinement for shooting and wounding M. Venizelos in Paris in August last.'

In the billiards match between Hooper and Fry, Hooper's breaks included 93, 64, and 54, and Fry's 70 a;nd 78.

At Rugby foootbnll, Ireland defeated Scotland by 9 points to 8, and Wales defeated Franco by 12 to 4. ■

The Association football match between Scotland and Ireland was won by the former by 2 goals to nil.

Four thousand students at Naples, oxacperated at the high price of books, smashed a.nd set liro to bookshops and snowed the streets with leaves from cosily volumes. Troops quelled the outbreak