GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 October 1921, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AMERICA AND BOXER INDEMNITY. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Washington, Oct. 25. In the House of Representatives the Foreign Affairs Committee favorably reported on the resolution authorising the president to remit as an act of friendship for China any or all further payments in connection with the boxer indemnity. The Senate has already approved of the proposal. DISTINGUISHED INDIAN VISITOR. London, Oct. 26. Mr. Sastri (one of India’s delegates at the imperial Conference), prior to sailing for Washington, stated that he will visit Australia and. New Zealand at the conclusion of the conference. He will also visit Fiji to inquire into questions reating to Indians there —United Service. TOTAL ECLIPSE OF SUN. London, Oct. 24. An expedition of British astronomers is leaving in February for Christmas Island to observe the total eclipse of the sun on September 21, 1922. IRON INDUSTRY IN INDIA. London, Oct. 24. Great steel works are being established at Bihar and Orissa, capable of producing three-quarters of a million tons of pig iron, and half a million tons of steel annually. It is believed India is capable of producing the cheapest steel in the world. SHIPS FOR THE SOVIET. London, Oct. 24. It is understood that the Soviet trade delegation in London have bought three British ships of fifteen hundred tons each. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. POLITICS IN GERMANY. Berlin, Oct. 24. President Ebert is interviewing the leaders of the Socialist, Independent, Democratic and Centre parties with a view to the formation of a coalition, excluding only Nationalists and Communists.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. EMPIRE EXHIBITION. London, Oct. 24. A meeting of Glasgow business men i guaranteed £40,000 towards the British Empire exhibition.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. OIL FOR LOCOS. London, Oct. 24. Extended experiments between York and Edinburgh show that while oil driven locos, are satisfactory as regards running oil fuel, they are not economic as compared with coal unless the price is reduced by 50 per cent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. NEW YORK MAIL TRUCK ROBBED. New York, Oct. 25. Three bandits captured a mail truck in the business district and escaped with registered mail worth a million dollars. TRAIN ROBBERY IN MEXICO. Mexico City, Oct. 25. Twenty bandits boarded a train and killed six persons and wounded five. They escaped with loot worth 200.000 pesos. INTERNATIONAL LABOR CONFERENCE. Geneva, Oct. 25. The International Labor Conference lias opened. The United States is not represented. Germany has been admitted and has sent a large number of delegates. TEN O’CLOCK CLOSING OF HOTELS. London, Oct. 24. The Bishop of Stepney and numbers of the clergy and temperance advocates sang “Doxology” in the Tower Hamlets Licensing Court when the chairman decided that the closing .-.our for hotels should be 10 o’clock instead of 11 o'clock, as asked for by the, trade. The decision affects. Stepney, Poplar, Shoreditch and Bethnal Green. LABOR AMENDMENT DEFEATED. London, Oct. 25. The House of Commons carried the second reading of the Unemployed Dependents’ Bill, after Mr. Clynes’ motion for its rejection had been defeated by 226 votes to 70. BRITISH ECONOMY CAMPAIGN. London, Oct. 25. Sir Robert Horne, in the House of Commons, explaining the Export Credits Bill, declared that prices were too high. He agreed that one cause was that the Government was costing too much. He was doing his utmost to reduce the Government expenditure, and Loped he would be able to show considerable reductions in the estimates.