GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 February 1923, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

POLITICAL PRISONERS RELEASED. * By Telegraph.--Press Assn.—Copyright. Delhi, Jan. 31. Seventy political prisoners have been released from the Lucknow including Gandhi’s son. NEW ZEALANDER KILLED. London,* Feb. 1. Walter Anderson, aged thirty-five, a New Zealander, was fatally blown up in London while experimenting in connection with a cinema’s motor. CONTROL OF COAL. Paris, Feb. 1. Germany has been officially notified that henceforth the despatch of coal and coke froni the occupied zone into Germany will not be permitted, except coal going to Italy. A NEW ZEALAND APPEAL. London, Jan. 30. The judicial committee of the Privy Council reserved judgment in the New Zealand appeal, Snushall v. the Chairman and Councillors of the Kaikoura County Council. A PAY’ ROLL ROBBED. Now York, Jan. 30. At Norfolk, Virginia, bandits kidnapped Paymaster LangleytieJd, of the air station, tied him up to a tree and escaped with the pay roll oi 42,000 dollars. ARBUCKLE A$ FILM DIRECTOR. New York, Jan. 30. A cablegram from Los Angeles says Arbuckle has announced that he will never act again, but he had signed a contract with a cinema firm to act as director of their comedies. He said: “From now on the public will hear from me only through the medium of the pictures I direct,” TROUBLE IN KENTUCKY. Washington, Jan. 30. At Corbin. Kentucky, two men were killed by special police battling with railway employees. The police claim they were attacked while seeking to investigate shots fired in the vicnity of a group of railwaymen. GREEK EX-MINISTERS RELEASED. Athens. Jan. 30. Ex-Prom ior Calogoropoulis and exMinisters Haldaris ' Rallis and Voziky have all been released. TURKISH AIRMEN KILLED. London. Jan. 30. Two Turkish aviators, Fazil Bay and Emine Bav, crashed at Smyrna and were killed. BOXER INDEMNITY REMITTED. Washington. Jan. 31. Tito Department of Commerce has learned from Chinese sources that, the British Government has decided to remit the balance of the Boxer indemnity nf approximately sixty million dollars for mutually beneficial purposes.

SIMPLER CUSTOMS COLLECTION. Paris, Jan. 31. The Council of the League of Nations is convoking for October 15 an international conference to consider the simplification of the method of collecting customs legislation. Tim Chambers of Commerce of the United States. Germany and Mexico will be invited in addition to members. WNER’S OUTPUT RECORD. London, Jan. 31. A .Lancashire miner, through the use of larger and heavier lamps, giving an intenser and more diffused light than the standard lamp, increased his output by 15 per cent. HOMES FOR ARMENIANS. Washington, Jan. 30. Representative Husted introduced a resolution asking for an appropriation of 25.000.000 (kfllirs for the transport of 250,000 Armenians who arc fleeing to new homes in south-west Russia, ■which Soviet Russia has oPerect DISEASES IN ANIMALS. London, Jan. TL The Council of the Cambridge Uni vercity Senate recommends the acceptance of the offer of tlie Ministry cl’ Agriculture and other Government departments of £55,000 for the establishment of a research institute for the study or ine pathology of animal diseases. IMPERIAL PREFERENCE SCHEME. London, Jan 31. The Morning Post, in a long leader in favor of increasing Empire trade by tariff preferences, specially advocates that the duties on dried fruits be increased and similar preferences ror canned fruits, in the interests of Australia and the other Dominions.