GENERAL CABLES

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1929, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

— THE FORGED TREATY. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). PARIS, March 4. As a reprisal of the Frauco-Belgian forged treaty, “L Echo de Paris” publishes extracts of another secret treaty concluded in 1918 under which Germany was allowed to use the Dutch railways to transport military anid other merchandise towards Aix la Chapelle and Hcrbesthal. AIALTA ENQUIRY. LONDON, March 4. At the request of the Governor of Alalta the British Government has instructed the Minister at the Vatican to inquire whether it is possible to send an Apostolic visitor to inquire into the circumstances arising out of the recent ex-communication of a Roman Catholic Priest at Alalta. VATICAN ORDER, LONDON, March 4, A message from the Vatican city says an order by Cardinal Jaspani considerably excited inmates to the number of 447. It notified them they might he liable to he ordered to leave on the spur of the moment immediately the Italo-Vatican treaties are ratified. This applies to everybody from Alonsignor Borgongini Duca, the highest official at the Vatican after Cardinal Jasparri, down to the lowest servant. The order was actually made with the idea of getting rid of a number of people, who for generations occupied buildings inside the- Vatican, simply because their forefathers held positions at the Holy See. GERAIAN STATEAIENT. GENEVA, March 4. Dr Stresemann at the League Council announced that Germany would ratify the protocol prohibiting poison gas in war time. PRINCE OF WALES. LONDON. March 4. The Prince of Wales deputises the Kincr at the forthcoming investiture, a-iul°will also be present with the Queen at Four Courts in 1929. He will probablv carry out other-duties on behalf of His Majesty. PRTNCE AND WORKERS. LONDON, March 5. How the Prince helped blister AVales” is the headlines concerning Ernest Wales of Durham, who together with a hundred miners from a distressed district is now working on a new drainage sysetm at Hyde Park. During his recent tour the Prince of Wales chatted with Ernest, who had been out of work for five years and also saw his wife and three children. Ernest says:—“l asked the Prince outright for a job. His secretary took mv name and tlie Labour exchange sent me and twenty others fares to London, where we have three months work at forty-nine shilling per week. X would have still been on the dole only for the Prince.” MINE REOPENS. LONDON, March 5. A hundred miners sang Welsh hymns as they resumed at Blaengwnfi mine which reopened after two years. Women folk and. cliil'dren who suffered tri-eut privations marched with the men and joined in the singing.