GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1920, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. Washington, Sept. 23. In Boston, Massachussets, coal has been rationed a 9 a result of the fuel shortage. New York, Sept. 23. A lighted dynamite stick was found in (i Brooklyn tramway station. It is believed to have been set by striking tramway workers. The stick did not explode. Mr. W. G. Harding, Republican nominee for the United States Presidency, in a statement at Marion, said that the Irish question was not one for America to become officially involved in. It is announced that the Bethlehem Steel Corporation lias created a twenty million dollar marine equipment fund, to build ships to carry ore from Chili direct to the company's plant. Helsingfors, Sept. 22. The newspaper Svenska Tidningen states that the Soviet naval staff has succeeded in restoring to fighting trim the dreadnought Petropavlosc lying at Kronstadt, and also three light cruisers of the Novik type, which ot\ly- lack fuel. Three submarines are practically ready for action, lying at Vasiliostrov. Vienna, Sept. 23. General Petlura has broken the resistance of the Bolsheviks and thrown them back to the east side of the river Sbrusz. The Ukrainian advance guards are now approaching Kamonitz and Podolsk. London, Sept. 24. "Pussyfoot" Johnson, interviewed, said: "If the British want Prohibition they should have it. lam going to pump Prohibition into the Scots as hard as I [know how." There was much less illicit trafficking in drink in America than expected. Only ! 10,000,000 gallons of whisky were drunk last year. Labor was more contented. "I am convinced that England will go dry," Mr. Johnson said. "One-third of Europe is nearer National Prohibition than America was a decade ago.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.