CABLEGRAMS.

Otaki Mail, 18 December 1922, Page 4

CABLEGRAMS.

SAVING GERMANY FROM COLLAPSE. AMERICA FLOATING-BIG LOAN. New York, December 15. The New York Herald's Washington correspondent' states that United States bankers are considering the flotation ol a luan ol one hundred million dollars with the aid of an international financier lor Germany, oeing the only visible way of saving Germany from economic collapse. The correspondent adds that .the Government favours such a loan, but only on condition that the reparations will he limited. The New York Tribune's Washington correspondent states that the Conference called by the United -States of the European Powers, possibly including Japan, to consider the reparations question and the European situation generally, is imminent. MILLIONS MAY PERISH, FAMINE FEARED IN EUROPE. Washington, December 1-i. Representative Newton, on behalf of 2i members of the House, introduced a resolution asking Congress to appropriate seventy million dollars for tlie relief ol famine'conditions in Austria and Germany, the money to lie used lor the purchase of food in the Cnited states, which would be utstributed by Red Cross organisatij is.

The resolution stated that- widespread starvation ctjen &*ow prevails among seventy million people in Austria and Germany, and unless relief is immediately extended hundreds of thousands, if not millions, will die ,oi bunder and cold during the coming winter. THE HERRIN MASSACRE, SOME DEFINITE EVIDENCE. New York, December 15. At Marion, three witnesses recounted graphic details ol the slaughter at Herrin, and pointed out that among the defendants were three men whom they saw with weapons in their bands, in a group which led the strike-breaking prisoners to the edge of the town, where they were later lound dead. BRIGAND'S ROMANTIC CAREER. FORMER RULER OF .SOUTHERN ITALY. London, December 15. Ilie Daily Mail's Rome correspondent states that Carmine Donatello Crocco, aged 1)2, who was more than TO years ago the brigand ruler ol SouUiorn Italy, has published his memoirs from a prison at Elba, where be has been serving a iile sentence iOr 02 years. tie begun his caieer in the army of

the King of Sicily. During a review he stepped out ol the ranks and requested the King to look alter his ten motherless brothers, "Otherwise “ i’ll give you something to worry | about." Crocco was arrested but I killed the guard and escaped. He was re-arrested, but eschped again, formed ;>5 bands of brigands, and was practically the dictator ol South Italy. He occupied 20 villages, collected! taxes and appointed mayors and officials. Eventually 12,000 soldiers were required to drive him out of the Pontifical Stales, where., he was later captured. IMORE TROUBLE FOR ITALY. A t TEMPTED UNION OF ij EXTREMISTS. Rome, December 15. *’ Zinoviefl. leader of the Third International, has been arrested at Bologne and charged with attempting to effect a union between the Bolsheviks and Italian Communists to overthrow the Fascist!. | THE RHINE CONTROVERSY. LLOYD GEORGE IN REPLY. London, December 14. Mr Lloyd George, in reply to M. Poincare, develops his argument in regard to the left bank of "the Rhine. I'he basis ot the assertion was well known to those engaged at the Peace ■ Conference. The Rhine was the . background of the manoeuvring for j months. In proof he quotes Marshal Foeh, who m 1019 said: “Having I reached the Rhine, we must stay

there,” and produced a map to show it was a natural frontier. Later Mari' slia] Foeh expounded the doctrine in greater detail. His influence was re- , sponsible for M. Clemenceau’s defeat ‘for the 1 ’residency, because he had gone back under Allied pressure from the French policy on the Rhine. Mr Lloyd George also quotes endless leading articles and speeches to the same effect, and scoffs nt. the proposed independent Republic on the lett bank, and asserts that propaganda is still going on. NEW REPARATIONS. INDUSTRIAL CHIEFS CONFER. Berlin, December 15. The captains ui industry are co- , operating with the Government in forI mutating fresh Reparations proposals. \ GERMAN STUDENTS SENTENCED. Berlin, December 15. I Welcliards and Zreny. The students .charged with attempting to murder ) Maximilian Harden, were found guilty 1 of causing grievous bodily harm and . sentenced to 55 and 51 months’ 1m- ! prisonrnent. i " " I For Children’s Hacking Cough, ! Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. —Alvt.. i t For Broncliinl Coughs, take Woods’ Great Peppermint Cine.—Adiri.