CABLE BREVITIES

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 13 December 1920, Page 4

CABLE BREVITIES

•-+ ■- ■ John Breman and Jacob Prager were | sentenced in London to five years tori bank forgery. ' I Russian theatres and amusements I will be nationalised on January 1 and.: admission will be free. ' The Tokio police broke up the first attempted mass meeting of Socialists representing all parts of Japan. With reference to the House or Lords' reserved judgment in the appeal of Lucas-Tooth, the Gazette announces that a baronetcy has been conferred on Mr Hugh Vere Lucas-Tooth, eldest son of Hugh Warrand, who married Beatrice, Sir Robert lAjcasTooth's eldest daughter. j The railway companies have rejected the Transport Ministry's proposal to accept workers elected by workers- as directors as being unjustifiable, intolerable and wrong in principle, Because the workers would not accept financial responsibility to safeguard the interests and rights of the shareholders. The crew of the destroyer Espero inutinied and arrived at Fiume to join d'Annunzio, who, on boarding the vessel, found the commander lashed to a gun because he refused to join the mutineers. The commander reproached d'Annunzio with high treason. j Mr J. B. Reiner, member 'for I Cheshire, has issued writs against I three Northcliffe newspapers, the Daily ' Mail, the Evening News, and the Weekly Despatch, also against Lord Kothermere's Daily Mirror, in connection with the anti-waste attacks on members of the House of Commons.