GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 December 1923, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Washington, Dec. 27. E. V. Clarke, formerly high in the councils of Ku Klux Klan, has written to President Coolidge offering to cooperate with the executive to end the activities of the element which ie converting the Klan into an organisation , vastly different from that planned by its founders. Clarke announces that he will issue a proclamation calling on the “better element either to take hold and remedy the existing evils or to disband tho organisation.” Madrid, Dec. 27. Specially important documents relating to the discovery of America are believed to have been destroyed in a fire at the Town Hall of Palos, whence Columbus sailed in 1492. It is reported that the fire, which completely burned the building, was caused by a local officer in order to destroy evidence of fraud in the municipal accounts. Tokio, Dec. 27. A fire at the Imperial University, Fukuoka, destroyed the entire building and engineering college- The damage is estimated at five million yen. Ottawa, Dec. 27. Prince Erik denies tl.e Copenhagen despatch saving that the Danish King has deprived him of princely rank because he is marrying a Canadian. Prince Erik says he is only renouncing the right of succession to the throne. He remains a Royal Highness and assumes the title of Count Rothenburg.