GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16613, 10 December 1919, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

BOLSHEVIKS IN JAPAN. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received Deo. 10, 8.46 a.m.) TOKIO, Deo. 9. The police claim that the Bolsheviks are trying to open headquarters in Japan with a fund supplied by Bolshevik organisations in the United States and Franco.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PROFITS ON SEWING-COTTON. LONDON, Deb. 4. Messrs. J. P. C'oatos and Co. state that only £370,000 out of their £4,000,000 profits is duo to goods sold in the United Kingdom. Nine-tenths of the profit is duo to foreign trade. The profit on a 400-yard reel is below two-thirds of a penny,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CANNIBALISM IN VIENNA. (Received Dec. 10, 9.10 a.m.) ROME, Dec.' 8. The Vatican has learned from Vienna that starving citizens aro eating human flesh. GREAT EARNINGS OF TRAWLERS. (Received Dec. 10, 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Deo. 8. A solicitor stated in the Grimsby court that some skippers of trawlers wore earning at the rate of £7OOO yearly. UNITED STATES TRADE. (Received Deo. 10, 10. SO a.m.) NEW YORK, Deo. 9. The Department of Commerce announces that the United States’ exports for the fiscal year ending Jiffle 30 totalled 7,074,011,629 debars, and imports 3,095,876,582 dollars. AN ETCHING FOR MELBOURNE. (Received Dec. 10, 10.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 8. Tlie trustees of the Felton bequest, of Melbourne, has purchased one of tho rarest of Charles Meryon’s etchings; “La Rue des Mauvais Garcons.” AMERICAN WAR EXPENDITURE. (Received Nor. 10, 11.25 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Mr. Daniels reports that the Navy spent 2982 million dollars during tho war.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.