OVERHELD CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 14 September 1915, Page 2

OVERHELD CABLES

COTTON EXPORT GUARANTEES

(Times and Sydney Sun Cables) LONDON, Sept 12

The Government is issuing an order that every yard of cotton cloth exported from Hritain for a destination other than the Dominions must be guaranteed not to reach the enemy.

TRAITOROUS OFFICERS,

LONDON, Sept 12,

The “Times’ ” correspondent at Athens says that two officers of high rank in the Telegraph Department have been Ernes ted on charfges of communicating' and selling to the enemy. Two correspondents have also been arrested for sending cypher despatches to foreign Legations.

DEADLY BOMB-THROWING,

A VALUABLE INVENTION. LONDON, Sept 12. Padi’e Alfani, director of the Ficfronce Obsrevatory, has invented an aterial range-finder, which permits of bomb throwing with mathematical! certainty lof the target at any speed or from any height. PROHIBITION IN FRANCE. A PRIVILEGE ABUSED. The Frencjh Government has suppressed the old privilege giving the peasant class the right to distil for private consumption. Enormous advantage has been taken of the privilege and fatly a million peasants have been distilling brandy and other spirituous liquors from the fruit-crop. A reduction in th|3 numlier of public-houses is also contemplated.

GERMANY'S NEW MILITARY LAW

COPENHAGEN, Sept 12

It is estimated in Bei’lin Lb at the a ierations in the Military Law (the recalling of mien previously rejected on air cunt of unfitness) wall add 300,00° lo the army. Fresh alterations are ready if the additions s(\'q insuffiei >nt.

ALERT CUSTOMS

LONDON, Sept 12

A Customs order has been issued directing that tea, wine and spirit merchants b! e not allowed to clear from bond more than the daily average for the last three months. The clearance of tea and tobacco recently has been abnormal in anticipation of further taxation.

FINED FOFfe CONTEMPT,

AWKWARD QUESTION

ANSWERED,

NEW YORK, Sept 11

Th e Federal Court fined the Hamburg- Am,erika Lino 700 dollars for contempt in refusing to answjer a questn'n whether, at the beginning of the war, their steamers were loaded and despatched from American ports as col. liers.

NATIONAL SERVICE.

COMMITTEE’S DECISION AWA.TED (Reed 8.10 a.m ) LONDON, Sept. 13 The “Sunday Times” states: \Vr await the Report of the Cabinet Committee that is now consider! ig *ne facts relating to the allimpo ’ta it question of National Servian The country will not quarrel with their decision when it is accompanied, as it presumably will be, with the information whereto we £)’© entitled. Mi© country has refused to prejudice Ire question at the bidding of new;,-oarers, who are anxious to seize the reins of Government, but it has shown implicit confidence in the dalm reasoned judgment of "men to whom its destinies are entrusted.