GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLVIII, Issue 4601, 3 July 1917, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

DEATH OF BISHOP OF KERRY

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 2. 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, July 1. Obituary:—Mangan, Bishop of Kerry. The Right Rev. John Mangan has been Bishop of Kerry since 1064. He was born in Listowel, County Kerry, in-1852.

BRITISH REVENUE.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association

LONDON, July 1. The revenue for the June quarter was £115,959,236, an increase of £43,000,006 compared with th e last corresponding period. The most striking increase is in the excess profits duty, including the munitions levy. It is £35,060,000 in excess cf tile 1916 period, which was £6.660, 000. The amount is now £41,000, 000. The amount chargeable against revenue is £671,000,0001

HOME REVENUE RETURNS

Australian and N.Z. Cable Associaib-a. (Received July 2, 11.30 n.m.) LONDON. July 1. The quarter’s revenue from - Customs was £17,710,000, excise £9,114,000. stamps £1,464.000. property and income tax £23,954,000.

BABY WEEK IN LONDON

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 2. 10.45 p.m.) LONDON, .July 1. A Baby Week, the outcome of a national effort to protect child life, begun to-day. / The Queen opens a comprehensive exhibition at Westminster for the purpjse of instructing mothers. Lady Plunket has organised a New Zealand section.

DAMAGE AT QSTEND

Aeroplane photographs of the recent bombardment of Osiend show little damage to residential portions. There was much wreckage of wharves, destroyers and submarine shelters, and the piers were much damaged by the bombardment of the coast ever the week..

AMERICAN STATES CO DRY

Reuter's Telegrams. WASHINGTON, July 1. Bone dry law, forbidding the possession of liquor, became effective in 23 States at midnight.

FIRST WAR CORRESPONDENT

KILLED.

Reuter’s Telegrams. LONDON, July I. Sergeant Bassett. French war -correspondent with the British Army, has been killed by a sniper’s buNet. He is the first correspondent, slain.

MISSION TO SOCIALISTS

Reuter’s Telegrams. PETROGRAD, Jttly 1. Goldenburg, Rosanoff, a net Smirnoff, delegates from soldiers, have started on a mission to enter into a pouparler with all socialist piarticsThey proceed first- to Stockholm, anti then to Britain, France an<j Italy.

POLISH MOVEMENT FOR UNION

WITH RUSS LA.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association PETROGRAD, July 1.

Before the revolution movement in the Ukraine (Polish frontier country) was largely anti-Russian: new the whole demand is for autonomy, and that troops shall fight under then* own flag. It aims at- federation with Russia. " The agitation grows Ji strength, the leaders refusing to await a constituted assembly.

DEALING WITH ATION

INSUBOEDIN-

Australian and N.Z. Cable Associate cn-

PETROGRAD. July 1. By order of M. Kerensky, when peace overtures failed, the twelfth and thirteenth divisions of sharpshooters. who refused to fall in. were surrounded- and charged) by cavalry at a village at Jovkofen. After the village ' had been twice shelled, the sharpshooters surrendered and were disarmed.

SCANDINAVIAN CONGRESS.

Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. COPENHAGEN. July 1. .The Scandinavian Parliamentary Congress has opened. ghel, president of the Norwegian Storthing, alleged that the Allies in their blockade policy had shown a lack of courtesy, but they were guiltless compared with Germany s bombings. -M. Hildebrandt-, a Swede, violently attacked! the British bloexade. " The president protested against the remarks. , M. Brantio strongly condemned a comparison of British and Gem. an methods.

BABY KILLERS’ BOAST,

Reuter’S Telegrams,

AMSTERDAM. July 1

A Berlin semi-official telegram, referring to tlie Loudon air raid, states": If England wants to spare civilians she can remove them from the neighborhood of storage places of war requirements such as Folkestone, Dover, Sheerness and London. German people, under pressure of England’s starvation war, have become a hard race of the iron fist. England lias felt this, and will experience it again to-morrow.

ARGENTINE DEMANDS COMPEN-

SATION,

Reuter’s' Telegrams. BUENOS AYRES, July 1. The Government is demanding compensation from Germany for the torpedoing of Argentine ve’ssels.

INTEREST IN LLOYD-GEOR.GE’S SPEECH.

Australian .and N.Z. Cable Association, AMSTERDAM. July 1.

German political circles are keenly interested in Mr Lloyd-George’s Glasgow speech. It may change the whole situation of the belligerent groups.

CONFIDENCE EXPRESSED IN ITALIAN GOVERNMENT.

Australian and N.Z. Cable AsspoGtion. (Received July 2, 7.5 p/.w' ' R6ME, July 1. -The Chamber carried a vote-of confidence in the Government. Signor Bosselli said that' it was Italy s_ intention to continue the. war, together with the Allies to a victorious finish. The-Socialists voted with the minority- .