GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LVIII, Issue 9635, 6 March 1923, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

NAVAL REVIEW AT NAPLES. ROME, March 4. An Anglo-Italian naval review is being arranged at Naples for the British Sovereign's visit. ABDICATION DENIED. MADRID, March 4. King Alfonso, in a public speech, ridiculed the rumor of his abdication. He said he Avould readily retire unasked, but the King of Spain never deserts his post.—A. and N.Z.C.A. TITLES AND DEGREES FOR WOMEN. LONDON, March 4. The Cambridge University Senate passed unopposed ordinances granting titles and degrees to qualified Avomen, tliAis ending the battle which has been Avaged since 1920. —A. and N.Z.C.A. . BOMBING 'PLANE CRASHES. NEW YORK, March 4. An army bombing 'plans nose-dtaed five hundred feet into a muddy field, injuring, perhaps fatally, Major Folett and Lieut. Stanley Smith, and severely injuring four mechanicians.—A. and N.Z.C.A. (Received March 5, 8.5 p.m.) NEW YORK, March 5. Lieut. Smith died from injuries. The condition of the others is graA T e. —A. and N.Z.C.A. RE-UNION 'OF CHURCHES. LONDON, March 4. The Vatican correspondent states that the discussions on the reunion of the Churches of England and Rome, commenced at Marines between Cardinal Mercier and Lord Halifax last year, will be resumed shortly by authorisation of the Vatican. The Archbishop of Canterbury says that Vatican circles Avill not minimise the difficulties of re-union.-—Times. / MANZONI'S JUBILEE. ROME, March 4. Signor Mussolini has instructed all Italian embassies and consulates to celebrate the jubilee of Manzoni’s death, and suggests that foreigners could best commemorate Italy's Walter Scott by reading his Avorks.