GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 November 1921, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

JOURNALISTS COMBINE. By Telegraph.—x’r ess Assn.—Copyright. London, Nov. 12. The executives of the National Union and Institute of Journalists unanimously passed a resolution in favor of amalgamation. They are preparing a scheme for submission to their respective members. GERMAN-AMERICAN TREATY, Berlin, Nov. 12. •The German-American peace treaty has, been formally ratified. GIFT TO FAMINE SUFFERERS. Paris, Nov. 11. Anatole France has decided to hand over the Nobel Prize of half a million francs to Russian famine sufferers. MR. BOTTOMLEY’S WORD. London, Nov. 11. Mr, Horatio Bottoinley, M.P., has written to the Lord Chancellor protesting against a magistrate declaring he could not believe Mr. Bottomley on oath, and asks that the statement be publicly withdrawn or the Public Prosecutor should proceed against him for perjury, giving him an opportunity of vindicating his character. KILLED AT HIS WEDDING. Geneva, Nov. 11. An old village custom dictates the firing of mortars outside churches after weddings. One exploded, at Schoenenwera and blew off the leg of a young bridegroom, who died before reaching hospital. The bride and bridesmaids were injured. ENGLISH BY-ELECTION. London, Nov. 11. Hornsey by-election resulted: —Viscount Ednam (Coalitionist) 15,959, Burgin (Independent Liberal) 13,943. (Viscount Ednam is the eldest son of the Earl of Dudley, who was at one time Governor-General of Australia.) COMMUNISTS ON ARMISTICE DAY. London, Nov. 11. | A procession of unemployed deliberately marred the armistice silence at Dundee by singing “The Red Flag.” Exservicemen captured and tore to shreds the flags of the disturbers. A number of arrests were made. PURCHASE OF STATUARY. London, Nov. 12. The Felton bequest purchased a bronze group by the French sculptor, Albert Bartholome. THEFT OF JEWELLERY. London, Nov. 13. Jewellery of unknown value was stolen from a flat occupied by Mrs. Cleaver, daughter of the Ihte Sir George Reid. The lost jewellery included a costly rope of pearls, the property of Lady Reid, who is ill in a nursing home. AUSTRIAN FORCES IN HUNGARY. Vienna, Nov. T2. Two Austrian brigades entered Western Hungary in accordance with the request of the Inter-Allied Commission. The occupation was carried out without incident. ARMISTICE DAY IN FRANCE. Paris, Nov. ’ll. The Chambers suspended their de* ■bate and observed two minutes’ silence in honor of the dead and the Allied victory. FRENCH WAR MEMORIALS. Paris, Nov. 12. The first of the *240 boundary stones which are being erected by the Touring Club of France along the line where the German advance was checked in 1918 was inaugurated at Chateau Thierry. The stone, which is five feet high, is of Alsatian granite and inscribed: “Here the invader was thrown back in 1918.” THE MISSING IN THE SjVAR. London, Nov. 12. It is officially stated that 93.800 officers and men posted as missing during the war are still unaccounted for GERMAN DUKE WANTS INCOME. Berlin, Nov. 11. The ex-Duke of Brunswick intends suing the Brunswick Government for a thousand million marks, representing the income from State domains, eight estates and three forests, the contents of Blandenburg Castle, horses and carriages, the National Museum and Library. Prussia is paying the ex-Kaiser a million marks yearly. Brunswick, since the revolution. has steadfastly refused to make the ex-Duke a remittance. A VIOLATED TREATY. Warsaw, Nov. 11. Poland has sent to Russia, complaining of the violation of every clause of the Riga Treaty, and doubting whether the Soviet is capable of fulfilling the obligations undertaken.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn. HIDDEN GERMAN GOLD. Copenhagen, Nov. 11. The German police have discovered gold bars worth 24,000,000 marks hidden by locomotive owners, who -were attempting to smuggle them into Denmark in order to avoid taxation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.