GENERAL CABLES

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 54, 6 March 1922, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

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Commencing from to-day, the price of The Times wi[l be lad for registered readers and 2d for others. Police dispersed 2000 unemployed at Newcastle, England, who were attempt-, ing to storm the Guardian's offices. A message from New York states that Jim Jeffries, the ex-champion pugilist, has .joined Billy Sunday in evangelising work. , A Reuter message from New York states that "Strangler" Lewis took two falls from Zbyscko, by the hea'dlock, regaining the heavyweight wrestling champipnship. Zbyscko won the first fall. 'The Australasian League football team, has returned, and had a- great reception at Sydnesl. AH its members were unanimous in declaring that they had had a royal time in Britain. They had no fault to find with the British, football crowds, though they considered that some decisions of referees were puzzlings 1 At Chicago, Harvey Church, who was too weak to stand after a 43 days' fast, was hanged while strapped to a chair. Immediately following his sentence for murdering two motor-car salesmen to obtain a motor, Church lay on a cot and refused to talk or eat. Physicians declared that he finally succeeded, in hypnotising himself into unconsciousness. Forcible feeding kept him alive until the day of execution. A message from Sydney states that Mr. M'Gregor, British Trade. Commissioner, shows that production in Australia has decreased 20 per cent, since 1913, and consumption has declined 43 per cent.