GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18448, 9 January 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

HERR STINNES EXTENDING ACTIVITIES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.. BERLIN, January 6. It is reported that Herr Stinnes has purchased a warehouse in Petrograd and is negotiating -*eith the Soviet to organise maritime communication, between Petrograd and German ports. Amsterdam Batavian advices state that Stinnes has' offered the Badong Municipality a 6 per cent, loan for municipal works conditionally on the Stinnes concern executing the work.—A. and N.Z. Cable. [Badong is the chief town of Bali, or Little Java, Island- in the Dutch East Indies.] GENEROUS GIFTS. ' BELFAST CHARITIES AND A LONDON HOSPITAL. , LONDON, January 6. (Received Jan. 8, at 5.5 p.m.; Henry Musgrave left £200,000 to Bel- , fast charities, including £50,000 to the Victoria Hospital, and £50,000 to the Presbyterian Church. A wealthy American has given £IO,OOO to a London hospital as a thank-offering to the hospital for finding volunteers who were willing to give a pint of blood to save hi 3 sick wife. The gift enables the hospital to reopen 200 peds which were closed owing to the increased cost of maintaining the hospital.—A. and N.Z. Cable. IMPERIAL EXHIBITION. NECESSARY GUARANTEES RE- . CEIVED. LONDON, January 6. (Received'Jan. 8, at 5.5 p.m.) An anonymous guarantor of the final £BO,OOO of the minimum of £1,000,000 / required for the British Empire Exhibition enables the work to be started immediately. The Duke of York will turn the first sod on Tuesday.—A. and N.Z. Cable. ANGORA PACT. FRANCO-BRITISH AGREEMENT. LONDON, 'January 6. (Received Jan. 8, at 5.5 p.m-) White Paper correspondence between the British and French Governments respecting the Angora Agreement shows that both Governments have now agreed. It is npt a treaty of peace, and does not imply any recognition of the Angora Government. The agreement has a purely local scope. France reserves the,question f . of peaco with Turkey and jwill refuse "■"' facifities for any. military action in the ' agreed territory oinder tne British mandate. . . , The rumour/regarding a French loan or the supply of munitions to the. Kemalists is baseless. France admits the principle of adjusting in a finals treaty of peace fthe different agreement negotiated, and is also ready- to collaborate in the work of mediation between the Kemalists and the Greeks, wherein Italy and Britain are associated. —A. and N.Z. Cable. CRIMES ON CHILDREN. LIGHT SENTENCES CONDEMNED. LONDON, January'6. (Received Jan. 8, at 5.5 p.m.) The Conference of the National Union of Women Teachers passed a resolution in favour of an amendment in the law relating to assaults and cruelty to children, in order that the sentences might be commensurate with the crime. The speakers emphasised that 15 years' imprisonment and the oat were given in Australia for ruining children, and imprisonment for life in South Africa, and condemned the light sentences given in Britain.—A. and N.Z. Cable. AMERICAN IMMIGRATION LAW. ENGLISH CHILDREN REI&ASED. NEW YORK, January 6. ' The "Secretary of Labour, Mr J. J. ' Davies, acted promptly in releasing the Boyd children on the ground that they are students, having studied in England. —A. and N.Z. Cable. [Mrs Boyd, an Englishwoman, who was on her way to join her husband, who is a mining engineer in Arizona, was admitted into America, but her children were detained under the "3 per cent." law limiting immigration on the ground that they were born it Australia and that the Australian quota was exhausted.j