GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1922, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

DRURY LANE RE-OPENS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Received April 21, 5.5 p.m. London, April 21. Drury Lane re-opened, after £150,000 had been spent on rebuilding, with a Florentine spectacle entitled “Decameron Nights”. Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles were present. There was a brilliant audience. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REPORT OF CANNIBALISM. Reval, April 20. It is reported that an American famine relief leader has been killed and eaten in Samara. A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. Copenhagen, April 20. A fire in Aalborg harbor stores spread fiercely and rapidly, and has already covered 70 acres and destroyed enormous quantities of grain, timber and fodder. The damage is estimated at 8,000,000 kroner. The outbreak is attributed to an incendiary. SOVIET LABOR DISORDERS. Helsingfors, April 20. Serious labor disturbances have broken out in the munition factories at Zlatoust, in the Urals. Several commissaries have been killed, the Communist organisations dissolved, and the local councillors arrested. Soviet troops have been dispatched to quell the disturbance. DEBTS TO USA. Washington, April ZU. The Foreign Debt Refunding Commission formally notified debtor nations that the United States is ready to proceed with refunding negotiations. BRITISH STEAMER SUNK. Buenos Aires, April 20. The Munson liner Aeolus collided with the British steamer Zero, which was sunk. The crew were saved. FINANCE IN GERMANY. Berlin, April 20. Herr Wirth’s financial reform scheme in an amended form will become law. A permanent property tax and a forced loan amounting to 1,000,000,000 gold marks takes the place of the proposed non-recur-ring tax on wealth increments. The property tax exempts the first 100,000 marks. Jewellery and objects of art are taxable thereunder. The tax on dividends is increased by 10 per cent. NEW MINERS’ LAMP. London, April 20. The Home Office is testing a device for attachment to miners’ electric hand lamps which registers the amount of fire-damp present and sounds a bell when the amount becomes dangerous. It is claimed that the device renders a coal-mine explosion impossible. THE SEMENOFF CASE. New York, April 20. Semenoff has been released, bail being found. A heavy police escort was required to keep back thousands of Jews and Russians who were attempting to attack him. He was taken to an unknown hotel. The court hearing was postponed owing to the menacing attitude of the crowd.