GENERAL CABLE NEWS.
QUEBEC VOTES “WET!” (Received September 14, 8-30 p.m.) OTTAWA, September 13. A Quebec City telegram states that Quebec, by a majority of 12.000 voted to be wet. The effect of the voting will repeal the existing local option law »and place the city under the provincial liquor statute whereby the Government may vend intoxicants at its own dispensaries. CANADIAN IMPORTER TOWED INTO PORT. (Received September 14, 8.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, September 13. The Canadian Importer has been towed into Victoria. THE INDIAN REBELLION. DELHI, September 13. A large body of rebels .in the Palgliat district burned the records in the Monnarghat courthouse and also set fire to forests and burned a number of buildings. EX-SERVICEMEN WORKING IN FRANCE. ' LONDON. September 13. Two hundred ex-servicemen have left London to work in French devastated areas. If the experiment proves successful, other batches will be sent and be paid at French trade union rates of two francs per hour for unskilled labor: —A. and N.Z.C.A. BUNGLING RUSSIA. LONDON, September 14. According to a Riga message eleven steamers, with corn cargoes, for the Russian famine districts, have arrived, but Russia has provided only two- hundred trucks. Urgent requests to Moscow for additional means to transport remain unanswered.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6184, 15 September 1921, Page 5
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