General Cables

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 91, 22 August 1923, Page 6

General Cables

Miss Zelda Hills, who nearly succeeded in grossing the Channel on a water motor cycle in 1920, attempted to .swim from Folkestone to the French coast, but abandoned the effort after covering eight miles owing to the wind and seaThe production of Mr film “The Birth of a Nation” has been forbidden in France ofi the grounds that it might cause public disorder. embargo is a result of the color question. The French rights in the picture cost £20,000. The Danish; Minister for the Interior opened the Seventeenth international congress against alcoholism. Six hundred delegates "include *Mr Volstead, author of the United 'States Prohibition Act.

Replying to the comments of a correspondent dt the’Westminster Gazette regarding decision to raise '£21,000 fccally instead of in London, Sir Jiseph Cook says the reason the Commonwealth floated the loan in Australia was obviously to provide redemption money locally. Sir J, Cook describes the correspondent’s Statement that manufacturers obliged the Government fto.v reconsider its decision as a mere figment of imagination. L’lhtranslgeant’s Angora correspondent says the /Turkish Government has called to the colors the 1896 to J 902 classes.