GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 September 1920, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Press Asan.—Copyright. The Panhandle State, the first American built, manned and registered transAtlantic liner sailing to Europe in a generation left New York to-day, bound for Queenßtown, Boulogne, and London. The vessel will call at Queenstown, despite an order of the British Admiralty to the vessel to omit the Irish port. Telegrams from'Emoy (China) (state that organised action is being taken'to prevent the planting of the new crop of opium in Fukien province, educational, business and religious organisations co-operating in order to limit the growth of the opium habit.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A telegram from Prenton, New Jersey; states that Mr. Charles Hughes, in a speech, declared that the President could declare war under article 10 of the League of Nations covenant without consultation with Congress. He bitterly attacked article 10 as the most dangerous feature of the League. lb is understood that the Nobel literary prize will be awarded to Kuut Hamsun, a Norwegian, who was formerly a cobbler's apprentice. Her'r Wirth resigned from the German Ministry of Finance as a protest against the granting of higher wages to postal and railway officials without a simultaneous increase in taxes.