GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6318, 22 February 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

NAVAL CENSUS FOR ECONOMIC CUT. (Received Feb. 21. 0.0 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 20. Ibe Aden jrally will take a census of naval men of all ranks ashore and afloat at midnight on Februarv 28. a.s a basis for early reductions in the personnel of the Navy. NO BRITISH LOAN TO GREECE. LONDON, Feb. 20. Mr. Lloyd George . stated in tli e House cf Commons that the Government did not intend to make a loan to Greece. X.Z. APPEAL CASE. LONDON. Feb. 20. Lords Buckmaster, Atkinson. Sumner. and Clarkson are engaged in hearing arguments in the House of Lords in the New Zealand Shipping 1 empany's appeal relating to the company’s liability to pay British ineome tax in addition to the New Zealand tax cn the company’s whole earnings. FORCEFUL MEANS FOR MINIMUM WAGE. LONDON, Feb. 20. One- thousand riotous miners at \aysddlm. near Newport, seized the colliery manager and threatened to immerse lnm in a reservoir, asserting _ flier had net been paid the minimum wage of .34/- weekly. They locked him up in the office until lie agreed to pay the minimum demand-

WJREI.ESS SHIPPING RECORD

NEW YORK, Feb. 20

A new wireless record between ships is; reported by the Munson liner, American Legion, which, while m Rio Janeiro, exchanged greetings with the liner Buckeye State, in Honolulu, more than 7000 miles a wav.

BRITISH EXPEDITION FOR. EVEREST.

NEW YORK, Fob. 20

The Chicago Tribune’s Bombay correspondent states that General Bruce arrived there yesterday to complete de till Is in connection with tho British expedition leaving on March 24 to ascend Mount Everest. General Bruce said that oxygen would be used after the climbers leave an altitude of 23,000 feet.

NATIONS DEFAULT IN LEAGUE SUBSCRIPTIONS.

LONDON, Feb. 20

Air. Fisher, replying to a question, said twenty-one members of the League of Nations bad not paid their 1921 subscriptions.