GENERAL CABLES

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 31 December 1924, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.2. Cable Association j LONDON, Dec. 30. It is officially announced in Dublin that two officers of the Free State army were suspended and twenty-five noncommissioned officers,-sixteen men; -and - several Civil Servants wero dismissed, it is believed .as the result of a conspiracy against the Government following on the measures taken to suppress the recent 'mutiny. According to Nairobi reports important, decisions were taken at the East African National Congress of Indians. It was resolved to enter into full co-opera-tion with Europeans for three years in the hope that permanent co-operation may bo ensured. The decision embraces participation in Parliamentary and municipal government on a fixed basis; the abandonment of the non-co-operation policy ; and an agreement to pay the poll tax. It was also resolved to, advise Uganda Indians to agree to parliamentary representation. VANCOUVER, Dec. 29

Kid McCoy, ex-pugilist, was convicted at Los Angeles of manslaughter in connection with the shooting of Mrs Theresa Mors. f’ht> penalty for manslaughtre is one to ten years’ imprisonment- ’ TOKIO, Dec. 30. Nineteen bodies so far have been recovered from the hospital lire. Seventeen are still missing. WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.

President Coolidge is hopeful, but not certain that it will be possible to hold another international naval disarmament conference within a year. Whenever the time is propitious President Coolidge will exert, his influence to bring it about- He is unable now to determine when it might be called with fair prospects of success.