GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 January 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

THE EMPIRE EXHIBITION. * By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Capetown, Jan. 13. General Smuts has announced that the Government has allocated £50,000 for the Empire Exhibition. CRUISER TO BE LAID UT Sydney, Jan. 14. The cruiser Sydney, the capture? of the German raider, Emden, will shortly be paid off and laid up indefinitely. The cruiser Brisbane will replace her. A DOCTOR'S CARELESSNESS. Paris, Jan. 13 Dr.. Colombet has been arrested md charged ' with culpable homicide. He placed Madame Cabine, an appendicitis case, on an operating table heated with an electric radiator, and as he administered cocaine the woman cried: rt l am being burnt.” The doctor replied that this was the cocaine. The woman became insensible, and after the operation it was found that her legs and back were . terribly burnt, the coils of the radiator being red hot. She died in terrible agony in three days. EX-PREMIER OF FRANCE DEAD. Paris, Jan. 14. The death is announced of M. Ribot, ex-Premier of France. WEST THRACIAN OUTRAGES. Sofia, Jan. 14. It is semi-officially stated that the native Bulgarian ami Turkish populations are being subjected to systematic terrorism and extermination in 'West Thrace and East Macedonia, where the siuation is causing widespread agitation, in Bulgaria particularly, as the outrages are described in a Greek official communique as executions. CATHOLICS IN MEXICO. Mexico City, Jan. 15. President Obregon has ordered the expulsion of Father Filippi within three days, declaring that the Federal authorities in future would take steps to prevent violations of tfie law by the Catholic Church, thus not depending on the enforcement of these laws by State authorities. This is considered to be the first movement against Catholic aggressiveness. The order has caused a storm throughout the country, which is universally Catholic. THO MOSUL INSURRECTION. Paris, Jan. 15. An Angora communique gives further details of the Mosul insurrection,, and says that in the Erbil district British planes are throwing incendiary bombs. The rebels are burning villages, destroying the corn and cattle. INTIMIDATING A WITNESS. New York, Jan. 15. ‘At Marion three shots were fired into the home of George Nelson, one of the prosecution’s most prominent witnesses at the Herrin trial. Nelson had been previously threatened with death. MYSTERIOUS CATHEDRAL FIRES. Ottawa, Jan. 15. At Hamilton, Ontario, the early discovery of another mysterious fire prevented the destruction of St. Mary's Cathedral. This is the thirteenth Dro in Canadian cathedral institutions. IMMIGRANTS TC AMERICA. Washington, Jan. 15. Sixty per cent, of the number of aliens admissable during the current fiseal year, beginning on January 1, 1922, entered the United States during the first six months, totalling 215658, and exhausting the quotas of many countries, including Australia, the quota from which was 279.