GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 November 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph.—Press Asan.— Copyright. The Salford Corporation has refused to allow Archbishop Mannix to use the Town Hall to address a meeting on Sunday, but he speak? at Rochdale next week.

Three men held up the Pembroke Street (London) branch of the National Bank and escaped with £3OOO. Electrical power engineers in England, comprising the highest skilled staffs, have given notice of a strike throughout the country on December 14, unless the wage demand is conceded. An Italo-Jugo-Slav agreement hal been drafted whereby Italy will assist Jugoslavia financially and technically to develop her natural resources. It is reported that Admiral Millo persuaded D'Anmmzio to hold his hand, pointing out possible serious political consequences.

The French Chamber of Deputies has reduced the period of conscription to eighteen months. The Privy Council dismissed the New Zealand appeal case, Gerrerd v. Crowe and hnother, with costs. A Delhi official message states: The Wana Waziri failed to submit by the lOtli in - e time limit fixed for the aeceptan ,:' the British terms, a British colui. .hereupon, advanced from C'hargalni o. the ]2fTi, and occupied Shahurtangi unopposed. The Waziris are collecting at Surwakai, and show no signs of accepting the terms. Small factions of the Mahsuds are assisting the Waziris, but the great bulk is friendly to the British.

Reports from Kirin state that Chinese troops operating against bandits in the district cast of the Chinese eastern railway massacred the whole population of three hundred in the village of Shitangkew. believing they sympathised with the bandits.