GENERAL CABLE NEWS
AMERICAN SAMOA.
ALLEGED MALADMINISTRATION,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, September 23. Mr J. Daniels (Secretary of the Navy) has announced that Rear-Admiral Hughes will be sent to Samoa to investigate the alleged maladministration of American Samoa. A court of inquiry will assist Admiral Hughes.—A. and N.Z. Cable. BOSTON COAL SHORTAGE. NEW YORK, September 23. In Boston, Massachusetts, coal has been rationed as a result of the fnel shortage.— A. and N.Z. Cable. STEEL TRUST. NEW YORK, September 23. It is announced that the Bethlehem Steel Corporation has created a 20,000,000 dollar marine equipment fund to build ships to carry ore from Chile direct to the company's plant.—A. and N.Z. Cable. SEISMIC DISTURBANCE. _ ZURICH, September' 22. -The seismolosrical station recorded a seismic disturbance at 3.56 p.m. on Monday, of which the centre was 14,000 kilometres distant, probably in the Pacific, north-east of Australia.—A. and NZ. Cable.
SENSATIONAL PERJURY TRIAL. LONDON, September 23. Mrs Bamberger, after a sensational trial at the Old Bailey, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for perjury. * Mre Bamberger, a pretty young woman, had told an extraordinary series of lies in the Divorce Court. Women crowded the Old Bailey daily, and there were numerous emotional scenes, including hysterical outbursts by the prisoner. The evidence disclosed many unsavoury details of West End life.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONALISTS,
BOLSHEVISM FEARED,
CAPETOWN, September 22. A congress of over 500 delegates of South African Nationalists has opened at Bloemfontein to consider the question of a reunion of parties. The speakers urged that unless they stood together Bolshevism would sweep over the land —A and N.Z. Cable.
ATTEMPTED DYNAMITE OUTRAGE.
TRAMWAY STRIKERS SUSPECTED.
NEW YORK, September 23. A lighted dynamite stick was found in the Brooklyn tramway station. It is believed to have been set by striking tramway workers. The stick did not explode. A. and N.Z. Cable.
SCOTLAND AND PROHIBITION.
"PUSSYFOOT" JOHNSON'S CAMPAIGN.
LONDON, September 23. Pussyfoot" Johnson has landed at Plymouth from America to assist in the prohibition campaign in Scotland.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18050, 25 September 1920, Page 9
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