GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 209, 14 May 1915, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

ANTI-GERMAN RIOTS. MANY PARTS OF ENGLAND. LONDON, May 12. Wild anti-German demonstrations hare taken place at Aldgate, Limehouse, Stepney, Bethnal Green and Poplar Shops were wrecked. Germans were mobbed on their re-appear-ing from Smithfield. Distubanceg hav© also occurred at Leeds, Sheffield, s head, Cardiff and many other towns, WAGES ADVANCE. TO COALMINERS LONDON, May 12. The Coal Conciliation Boards have granted Durham and Northumberland miners an advance of 15 per cent and Scottish miners 131 per cent, EXCLUDED FROM COVENT GARDEN. ECONOMIC QUESTIONS. LONDON, May 12. Fruit auctioneers at Covent Garden have decided not to deal with the enemy subjects. Mr Asquith in reply to a question said the Government in conjunction with employers of workmen, are taking all practical steps to mobilise the whole of the national resources Mr Macnamara, in reply to a question, stated that the Admiralty was conferring with regard to fishing industry with respect to further protection for the .fishing fleets. EX-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT ABSURD EXALTATION OF PEACE. BROUGHT AMERICA INTO CONTEMPT. NEW YORK, May 12 Mr Theodore Roosevelt, in a magazine article, entitled “Murder on the High Seas,” says that America is being neutral as Pontius Pilate was neutral. . Wilson’s absurd exaltation of peace over righteousness had brought the United States into contempt before the whole civilised world. Germans wer e worse than Barbary pirates and ought to bo. suppressed as pirates by all the efforts of all nations. A hideous wrong ivas being don'e in Belgium without an American protest, which had exposed the United States to the deepest scorn and contempt. MR BRYCE’S BLUE BOOK. MURDER, LUST, AND PILLAGE. UNPARALLELED IN THREE CENTURIES. LONDON, May 12 Mr Bryce’s Blue Book states that it is proved that deliberate, systematic and organsied massacre s of the civil population took place in many parts of Belgium; women and children were used as shields -for advancing Germans, and murder, lust and pillage prevailed on a scale unparalleled in any war between civilised ‘natioflis for centuries.