GENERAL CABLES.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 December 1920, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRALIAN ifc N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] RHODES’ SCHOLARSHIP FUND. LONDON, Dec 11. Tin) Rhodes Trust annual report states that owing to the increased cost of living, a scholarship worth £3OO is no longer sufficient to maintain, and the bolder must be prepared to contribute £SO annually. N - • CARRIAGE OF MUNITIONS. LONDON, Dec 11. The Union railway men, after consul-. - tation with Irish comrades have convened an All Ireland Conference at Dublin to consider transport dislocation,' resulting in the' dispute between Government and railwnymen over the carriage of munitions. AN INTERVIEW. CONSTANTINOPLE Dec. 12. Abdul Modjid, heir to. the throne, interviewed by a French journalist, I stated peace -in Asia Minor was unobtainable until the Sevres Treaty was modified. If very fragile, Turkey might have been in eastern Europe what Poland was in central, a barrier, against Bolsheviks. Close relations between Remalists and Bolsheviks were morelv provisional While the Bolsheviks were out for world’s destruction, the Kemal- •- hits sought only the destruction of tho m Sevres Treaty and would cease connection when they obtained satisfaction. FIRE IN “TIMES” OFFICE. [LONDON TIMES SERVICE COPYRIGHT] (Received This" Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec 12. A fire in tho “Times” office destroyed a large stock of paper and damaged four presses. Publication is not affected. ' A FRENCH REVERSE. (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) PARIS, Dec- 12. The “Temps” announces a French re4verso in Syria, south-east of Latakia. Turks captured a detachment of Arab Artillery and maeliine-guns killing a number of troops. “Temps” demands an official explanation how. the Turks were enabled to penetrate Arab territory, under the French mandate. BISMARCK’S MEMOIRS. (Received This Day at 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Dec 12. Bismarck’s long suppressed reminiscences are published in Swiss newspapers. They reveal that he foresaw a world’s war and Germany’s downfall, through the ex-Kaiser’s dictatorial temperament. He relates his vain efforts to copo with the Imperial megalomania. Bismarck writes:—l see a serious dmger ahead for Germany and tho whale of Europe. Tlie later the catastrophe tho more terrible it.will be. A PIOUS KAISER.' (Received This Day at 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Doe 12 A correspondent sends from Berlin a piquant picture of the Kaiser gathered from liis Chaplain who has just arrived from Doom. He depicts the Imperial runaway in a religious framo of niind meekly recognising God’s hands in his present sufferings, and piously praying, for forgiveness of liis enemies, lv wicked England. FLYING RECORD. (Received This Day at 10.35 a.m.) : : ' * PARIS, Dec: 13. _ Sadie Lecointe broke the world’s flying record at Nieuport in a Hispano machine, by attaining a speed of 202 miles per hour. “