GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 June 1920, Page 1

GENERAL CABLES.

ACBTHAI.I \.N it N.Z. CABI.E ASSOCIATION] CKK.MAX SECRET KFPOKT. (Keceivod tliis day at 8.40 a.m.) PARIS, June 20. There has just come, to light a secret memorandum of the German Otlieial Commission regarding the Krench war damages. The document assesses the Votiil payable by Germany to France as 7,225,000,000 gold marks, less 215,000000 for German construction of public improvements. The memorandum reckons the amount payable, apart from the war zone as 50,000,000, also damages to churches, cathedrals and public buildings at 75,000,000. FOCI I ON DISARMAMENT. {United Service Telegrams). {Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 26. The “ Daily Mail’s ” Paris correspondent interviewed Marshal Focli regarding disarmament. Forth said it was not a cptestion of destroying 15.000 German guns. The -true menace was the hostile militaristic spirit of the German people. If the spirit were translated into action again, there will be a terrible swifter weapon in the air. It was the duty o' tile next generation not lo abandon precautions. AMBASSADORS. (Received this day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 25. it is announced that Baron Dabernon has been appointed British Ambassador to Berlin, and Biscarcino as the Italian. A SENSATIONAL STOItY. PARIS, June 25. Alter twelve years of liberty Albert Juge, who escaped from the penal settlement at Cayenne, has been recap, timed. He was sentenced to 20 years in 1907, and escaped under circumstances recalling the hook, “The Count of Monte Cristo.” He went to a cemetery during the night, disinterred a coffin, which he used as a canoe, and escaped to French Guiana and thence to Brazil, where he made competence by honest toil. Homesickness made him attempt- to visit Ill's mother in Paris. After a fortnight a neighbour denounced Juge and lie was sent back to Cayenne to complete his sentence.