GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

Bjr Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. There is a terrible persecution in Eastern Galicia by Petlura and his men. Hundreds have been killed, children have been slaughtered before their mothers' eyes, and many young girls violated. Drunken soldiers set fire to a great number of Jews by means of combustible liquid. The seismological station at Zurich recorded a seismic disturbance at 3.0 o'clock on Monday, its centre being 14,000 kilometres distant, and probably in the Pacific, north-east of Australia. Mrs. Bamberger, after a sensational trial at the Old Bailey, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for perjury. Mrs. Bamberger, who is a pretty young woman, told an extraordinary series of lies in the Divorce Court. Women crowded the Old Bailey daily, and there were numerous emotional scenes, inciludiilg hysterical outbursts by the prisoner. Th'e evidence disclosed many unsavory details of West End life.

Mr. Daniels (Secretary for the Navy) has announced that Rear-Admiral Hughes will be sent to Samoa to investigate alleged maladministration of American Samoa. A Court of Inquiry will assist Admiral Huglies.' A congress of over 500 delegates of the South African Nationalists has opened at Bloemfontein to consider the question or re-union of parties. Speakers urged that unless they stood together Bolshevism would sweep over the land.

The Congress of Chambers of Commerce at Toronto adopted a series of resolutions favoring closer relations between the trade bodies of the Empire, development of shipbuilding, maintenance of shipyards, and development of British and Canadian neutral ports. Mr. W. F. Burdett, of St. John (Now Brunswick), said that the commerce of the Canadian interior still tended to flow through the United States. Two Japanese have been sentenced at Tokio to ten years' imprisonment, being convicted of an attempt to sell to America documents stolen from Yokohama naval stations last July.