GENERAL CABLES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 21 May 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

SHIPMENT OF SILVER RESENTED

! BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT I Received May 21, 1.45 p.m. I • . * BEIRA, May 20. The attempt by the Banco da Beira to ship £60*000 "worth of silver to Delagoa was strongly resented by the townspeople as detrimental to the country's interests. .The crowd cut the ~ ropes of the waiting lighter, which grounded. The authorities summoned armed reinforcements, which would hold the wharf by force pending another attempt to ship the silver, which is allegedly consigned to Portugal.— Renter.