GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16876, 25 October 1920, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright. The police arrested all delegates attending a syndicalist congress at Bologna (Italy), which was arranging for reprisals for the arrest of Malatesta. The French Finance Ministry announces the rejection of an American syndicate's offer to purchase the French Government’s tobacco monoBritish summer time ends this morning (October 25). Sir John Oakley, the arbitrator on Lord Forster’s claim against the London County Council for the compulsory acquisition of 134 acres near Oatford for housing, awarded £31,529. Lord Forster claimed £79,000 and the conn--cil offered £30,619. According to reports from Helsingfors a state of siege has been proclaimed in thirteen districts in Russia, the Soviet leaders being afraid of hunger disturbances. A thousand emigrants for West Australia have been hooked by the Zealandic, but the ship’s departure has been postponed indefinitely in consequence of the shipwrights’ strike delaying reconstruction work. Commandant Grove, representative of the German Red Cross; has been arrested at Posen on suspicion of espionage. Greve’s office is described as a spy centre. According to dispatches from Harbin, 300 Russians were killed and injured in a train collision on the Chinese eastern railway. It is understood that the State Department at Washington will not take any action to prevent . British deportation proceedings against Costello, whom Scotland Yard seized in London. It is Eointed out that it is known there he ad relations with the Bolsheviks, and therefore, despite American citizenship, the State Department does not feel it can protect him. Ranee Raar is shortly appearing at the Coliseum, London, rendering Maori folk songs and war chants.

Allsopps and Sons, of Burton-on-Trent, have purchased Hill 60, near Loos, and are establishing a hotel there.

In British Columbia Prohibition was defeated by 75,964 votes to 49,,235. It is believed a system of Government dispensaries will supplant cafes. The British India Company’s steamer Main, from Hull to Australia, stranded on a sandbank off Deal during a fog, but tugs refloated her at high water and <he proceeded on her journey.