GENERAL CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 19590, 11 August 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

(By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Australian and New Zealand Cable Assn). BERLIN. August 9. It is reported from Gleiwitz that the Pru- tian authorities are embarking on a great scheme of mineral development in Upper Silesia at a cost of four milliards of marks. PARIS, August 8. In order to stimulate youths’ interest, in aviation the Government is tubadising an Aviation Company to enable it to give school boys flights for ten. shillings each. MADRID. August 8. A regular airship senice between Seville and Buenos Aires will commence next spring. using Zeppelins constructed by the Germans, and capable of carrying 500 pasMCger?. TOKIO, August 9. The Minister of War announced that the army estimates during next year would be reduced to the extent of four hundred million yen. which would involve the retrenchment of 1800 officers, 56.000 men and 13.000 other forces representing five divisions. The conscriptional period also would be reduced by three month.-. Workers in Fukushima, an important silk centre, requested a 10 per cent, reduction in wages out of sympathy with the employers, tome of whom axe on the verge of bankruptcy, owing to the slackness of trade. PEKIN, August 9. There has been a great heat wave in Japan and the hinterland of North China for weeks, the temperature averaging over 100 in the shade, while for several days it walla in Tientsin and Pekin. Numerous cases are reported of prostration and mental derangement in Japan, where many factories are suspending work owing to the heat. *