GENERAL CABLES

Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1923, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES

OCCUPATION OF MEMEL. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright PARIS, Feb. 2. J he Riga correspondent of the‘.Petit Parisien reports that Lithuanian insurgents have instituted a Council of State, over which one Reizis presides. The council has proclaimed the Lithuanians’ occupation of Memel and abolished the frontier between Memel and the Lithuanian Republic. The council is creating a military depot, purchasing munitions and preparing for armed resistance against any Powers that do not recognise the changes. FALLING FRANC. PARIS, Feb. 2. The Matin says that M. Poincare, with the Minister of the Interior, is considering important measures for checking the fall in the franc, including a proposal to establish at the Bourse a service of rapid information which the Premier hopes may rectify the present tendency and also hinder dishonest speculation. If necessary restrictions on operations will be considered. FLIGHT ROUND »THE WORLD. 4 LONDON, Feb. 2. It is understood that Sir Keith Smith has indefinitely postponed his flight round the world. ECONOMIC CONFERENCE. WANTED BY AMERICAN SENATOR WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Senator Capper, leader of the farm block, speaking in the Senate in support of Senator BoraJi’s proposal for an economic conference, declared: “The sooner we act the better. While we are standing on one foot Europe is crumbling. The agricultural legislation now being passed by Congress will be little help to the American farmers if Europe enters upon economic dissolution, which it seems she must do.” PLOT IN FRANCE. PARIS, Feb. 2. At the inquiry into the death of Plateau it was stated that a plot had been discovered, the object of which was not only the murder of M. Daudet, but also of M. Poincare and M. Lefevre, ex-Minister of War, who had been writing anti-German newspaper articles. M. Lefevre says that a foreign organisation was responsible for the plot. DAILY PAPER FOR CUNARDERS. London, Jan. 13. The London Daily Mail announces that it has absorbed the bulletin published on the Cunard liners. It will transform it into an Atlantic edition, published daily, with news by wireless and directed by competent journalists. TELEPHONE-LINKING SCHEME. London, Jan. 20. Preliminary steps are being taken to call an international conference to discuss the linking up of Europe by telephone. The president of tlie Institute of Electrical Engineers says that the work

could be handed to one firm, or done | through an international commission. I He does not foresee any language difficulties. PROHIBITION IN AMERICA. Received, February 2, 8.30 p.m. Washington, Feb. 1. The Federal Prohibition Commissioner. following a tour of investigation on the Pacific coast and in the south-wedt, declared: “In every section 1 visited I found a popular backing of the eighteenth amendment and a patriotic determination to have it religiously observed and strictly enforced. States actually vied with one another in demonstrations of respect to the law and reverence of the comtitution.”