GENERAL CABLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LIV, 1 November 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(United Pros* Association.*

LONDON, Oct. 29.

■The. Port of London Authority hnvinn; iYiilod to provide berthing accommodation for thei Commonwealth liters in thr> Thames. Mr Lnrkin is for northing thern at Southampton, With reference to the outrage of blackening the Royal monuments at Allahabad the Australian Press Association recalls a, similar crime in Bombay twenty-five' years ago, when Victoria's jubilee statue was tarred when the Government was seeking to enforce drastic and unpopular anti-plague laws. The incident was followed by the murder of two- British officers in I'oona.

Colonel Crisp, director of the Arsenal Club, reminds the public that under an Act of the James (he First their presence at football matches involves liability to fine and imprisonment. i' Obituary—W. S. Bruce, Polar explorer; also H. B. Marriott, Watson, author. * .

The New York World's Washington correspondent, states that the comptroller of currency, Mr Crissinger, has announced that the resources of the 30,815 United States banks for the year emiin? 30th June, were .1390 million dollars less than the, previous year. This vear's total is 49,638 million.' LONDON, Oct. 31.

Lady Minto writes to The Times,' opposing tho War Graves Commissioners' intention to omit tho age of fallen from tho headstones, and urges .that the age alters the whole current of thought. Youthful achievement''in life counts, and why not in death? France and Belgium recognise this, the same as England did in previous wars. The question concerns - the..over-, seas Dominions. She invites opinions and suggestions. ■; • As a result of three years' experiments the Bristol Company produced an air-cooled nire-cylinder aeroplane engine of 450 horse pow/r. It occn< pies two feet of space and four *men can lift it. It has answered tests equivalent to carrying eight persons ten thousand miles ni, ]()0 miles an hour. Sir Basil Thomson has, resigned the directorship of intelligence at Scotland Yard owing to difficulties with Sir William Horwood, Chief Commissioner. ■ . - TT " Replving to a 'question in the House of Commons, Sir R. Home said tho Government was not communicating with the United States Government. with reference' to the cancellation of European war debts. ■ , - Mr Chamberlain «nicl- the Government was not prepared 'to approach America with a suggestion that the United Kingdom would cancel halt the debts owing to her on condition that the United States would accept responsibility' for the other half, which amounted to about six hundred millions

PARIS, Oct. 31. Miss Lvne, an English clerk, won tha hundred yards in 11 4-5 sec, which is a Kirls' world's records, English girls defeated French bv 48 to 37. CAPETOWN, Oct .31.

Germany captured contracts in connection with the Rand water scheme _at over half a million. The lowest British tender was £llß*ooo higher.