GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6322, 27 February 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

ALLEGED EMBEZZLEMENT. (Received Feb. £(>, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, leb. 25. Walter Sidney Masterman, fishery inspector at Grimsby, brother to the former Liberal Minister, is being charged with emboz/.iilig £BO2 belonging to the Board of Fisheries. The prosecution alleges that defendant paid his own accounts with sums received for the sale of coal and gear from the German trawlers which were handed over. RAILWAY AMALG AM ATKIN. LONDON, Feb. 23. The Great Western Railway ami twenty-six other lines in the West of England and Wales are amalgamating under the Railway Act 1921. The aggregate capital of the group approrinates £150,000,(100. The net income is anticipated to reach £8,000,000. The absorption includes railwayowned docks at Newport, Cardoff, Barry and other Welsh ports. The group retains the .title of the Great Western Railway. CANA DA ’ S POPULATION. OTTAWA, Feb. 24. Canada's population is now 8,7 <2,631 according to the 1921 census.

EX-GERMAN VESSEL AS WHITE STAR LINER. NEW YORK. Feb. 24. The White Star liner Homeric arrived on her maiden voyage. She was formerly the German Columbus taken over by the Reparations Commission. JAPAN’S PACIFIC STEAMER, SERVICE. NEW YORK, Feb. 24. The Nippon Yusen Kaisha announced the Pacific service will be reduced in April by the substitution ot four GOOD tonners for the present 10.000‘ton liners. Passenger fares will be reduced by cue hundred dollars. The larger boats will be transferred to the European service, which is carrying 47.000 passengers monthly. DECREASE IN 17 S. FOOD EXPORTS. NEW YORK, Feb. 24. Trade statistics shove a huge decrease in the X'nited States food exports. Grain export for January totalled 33,462,290 dollars compared with 82,702,245 in January, 1921, and meats 9,264,206 dollars compared with 21.003,489 dollars.

WOULD-BE ASSASSIN TO DIE. BELGRADE, Feb. 25. The trial of Communists who attempted to kill Alexander has concluded. A would-be assassin was condemned to death, an accomplice to twenty years’ penal servitude, and twelve deputies convicted of instigating the crime were sentenced to two years. LEAGUE FUNDS NOT TAXABLE. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. A precedent lias been established by the decision cf the tax experts of New York State holding that League of Nations funds are not taxable, the organisation having all the tax immunities of a foreign Government. U.S. LABOR PLANS POLITICAL CAMPAIGN. NEW YORK, Feb. 25. The American Federation of Labor plans an active campaign during the coming Congressional elections, and intends to place numerous candidates in the field throughout the country. BRITISH B Y-ELECTIOX. LONDON, Feb. 25. The Rodman by-election resulted:—Isaac Foot (Wee-Free). 13,751: Sir Frederick Poole (Coalition Unionist), 10,610. The election was due to the death of Sir C. Hanson. ITALIAN POLITICAL CRISIS ENDED. (Received February 20. 11.5 p.m.) ROME, February 25. With the aid of the Constitutional groups Signor Facta has formed a (Ministry, taking the portfolios of Interior and Liberated 'Territories. Signor Sclianzer is Minister of Foreign Affairs, Signor Peano, Treasurer, Signor Rossi, Minister of Justice, and Signor Bartini. Minister of Agriculture. TEX RICKARDS’ TROUBLE. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. Tex Rickard has been arraigned before the Grand Jury on two additional indictments returned, charging him with the abduction of two oilier girls thirteen and fourteen years of age respectively. The bail has been increased to twenty-five thousand dollars.

WHITE SLAVE AND NARCOTIC RING. NEW YORK. Feb. 23. The Chicago Tribune’s Hongkong correspondent states that American secret operatives are about to disclose the leaders of A white slave and narcotic ring, which has been operating in the Pacific for years. It is stated that. American girls have been brought to disorderly bouses in China, the ring also smuggling morphine and opium into China. Headquarters of the organisation exist at Shanghai, Hankow, and San Francisco. Arrests are expected to take place soon, and include several of the richest foreigners in China.

THREATS TO SOCIETY WOMEN. NEW YORK, Feb. 23. Several of the most prominent Washington society women recently received letters, threatening them with death unless they pay sums varying from fifteen to twenty-five thousand dollars. The letters are not the ordinary type of anonymous letter. but written on good paper in faultless English. STRANGE BREACH OF PROMISE CASE. LONDON, Feb. 24. Mrs Bendix, who sued Carl Bendix for breach of promise to re-marry her, has been awarded £SOOO damages. ALLEGED BETTING FRAUD. LONDON, Feh. 24. Captain Peel and Mrs Peel have been committed for trial for alleged attempted fraud in connection with the mistiming of betting wires FRENCH BANKING SENSATION. PARIS Feb. 24.

A further sensation has been caused by the arrest of Pernotte, general manager of the Banque Industrielli de Chine, after undergoing magisterial interrogation. A Government scheme for applying France’s unpaid share of the Chinese Boxer indemnity to the reconstruction of the Banque has been submitted to Parliament.— Reuter.