GENERAL CABLES.

Grey River Argus, 20 January 1926, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

PETE]; DAWSON FIXED. L-ONJanuary 18. Peter Dawson was fined ten pounds toy crfA-ing his motor car with danger to th u public when th G car was wrecked. Jt was stated that his. wife has not yet recoveied from tier injuries. A SOVIET DIPLOMAT. PARIS, Jan. IS. Al. Krassin has arrived from Moscow. He .leaves shortly to resume his fluties at the Soviet Embassy at London. POLAR. PL AX E DEST R O YED. NEW YORK January IS. Fire in Detroit damaged heyond repair the triple engined metal plane, with which Wilkins planned to make a flight across the North Polo. The ’plane was one of ten destroyed. The entire experimental plant of th e stout metal airplane division of the Ford Motor Company was badly- damaged. WILKINS ’ EXPEDITION. NEAV YORK, January 13. Captain Wilkins states the loss of his plane by fire will not delay the starting of his Arctic expedition. CHINA Hard up. PEKIN. January 18. The Finance Minister C'hen Chin Tao, has resigned. The resignation reveals an acute financial stringency in the past Decade. The present resources are apparently exhausted, and local troubles are feared at the Chines© New Year unless funds are secured somehow. The situation does not affect properly secured Chinese bonds. MOROCCO. LOND(F?\, January 18. The “Times’s” Tangier correspondent reports that the important Anjera tribe is understood to have made peace with Spain. COTTON KINGS’ FRO J ECT. CAIRO, January 18. Khartoum streets were bcfLgged and large crowds assembled to meet Lord and Lady Lloyd, when the High Commissioner formally opened the Makwar Dam, a gigantic engineering feat designed to fertilize several million acres of desert between the Bine Nile and the White Nile, to facilitate extensive cotton growing.