GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 September 1920, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, Sept. 26. Riazanoff, KamenelT's successor in the Russian negotiations, has arrived in London. , There are indications that the strike among the cotton spinners at Oldham has begun to collapse. The victims of the Northolm aeroplane accident include Miss De Trafford, the first woman to pass the Air Ministry tests. She v;iu« Unown owing to lier clever work as '"The Flying Genius." Eight lives' were lost and many persons were injured by an explosion on an oil-tank barge off Millwall.Paris, Sept. 26. /' A cyclone caused much damage in the /Riverina. Floods in the Saint Jean de Maurienne district did damage amounting to £1,000,000. The Rhone overflowed near Brigue and the expresses to Simplon Were unable to pass. Several villages in Valais were inundated. The importation of 10,000,000 quintals of wheat will suffice j;o meet the shortage in France's 1920 harvest. Geneva, Sept. 26. The bursting of a pocket on the Montalvert Glacier caused masses of ice to crash down the river, flooding the | valley and creating greas alarm at I Chamonix. . Berjin, Sept. 25. Maximilian Harden, writing in Die Kukunft, says that the lat§ Prince Joachim, shot himself by mistake, because, after a violent scene at the ex-Kaiser's residence at Doom, he wanted to soften his father's heart by inflicting a light wound and so make himself interesting as a person capable of committing suicide I .—Router.