GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, 28 October 1915, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

PORTUGUESE RED CROSS,

HELP FOR BRITAIN,

LISBON. October 20

The Government is arranging to receive British wounded from the Dardanelles and Serbia, and is preparing the necessary hospital.

GERMAN CONSPIRACY.

DISCOVERED IN AMERICA

ASTOUNDING REVELATIONS,

(Rec. 10.15 a.m.) . NEW YORK, Oct. 20

Further startling developments have been discovered in a bomb conspiracy. The police arc seeking for Max Breitling. secretary and treasurer of the Oil Well Supply Company, who is accused of furnishing the bulk of the .‘IO,OOO dallars recently spent, by Fay. The police are investigating Breitling’s supposed relationship with Breitung, the Dacia’s purchaser.

Dr. Unitize ami Paul Bacche have also been arrested for conspiracy. Mr. Flynn, head of the Federal Secret Service, declares that Breitling and Fay paid Paul Seibe for the purchase of explosives. Seibe, formerly s German soldier, will be a Government witness. Scholz confessed that he and Fay tested the explosives and madthe mines, and ho had almost perfected an exploding apparatus when he was arrested. He denies that any loaded tnine had been attached to any ship. Scholz believes that Fay received 4.000 dollars from the German Government officially. He stated that Farhad confessed that the German Secret Service sent him to the United States after he had exhibited his exploding invention.

THE HIGH COMMISSIONER,

SIR GEO. REID’S PROTEST. MELBOURNE, Oct. 2(5. Correspondence between the Federal Government and Sir George Reid with reference to the former’s refusal to renew Sir George’s term, of office as High Commissioner in London has been published. Sir George Reid, in his letters, points out that he gave up a career at the Bar and in the Federal House, representing *£4,000 per annum, and at great expense took the position, which was looked upon as official and not an uncertain political post. Ho considered that he was entitled to expect a renewal for another terra if ho discharged his duties satisfactorily. Subse-

qucntly he received an implied promise of renewal from the. Cook Government. The correspondence concludes with a letter from Air. Mahon, a member of the Cabinet, stating that "this Government declines to recognise the right of the previous Government to bind its successors by a verbal' ar-

rangement with respect to future vacancies in the public service,”

THE BOTHA CABINET,

ME R RIM AN PROBABLE

CAPETOWN, October 25.

It is understood that Afr. J. X. Merriman, formerly Premier of the Capo -f Good Hope, will be invited to the portfolio of Finance in the Botha Cabinet.

(A recent writer said:—"Ore of the men whose observations carry the most weight in the tubid atmosphere of African politics is the Rt. Hon. J. X. Alerriman. No man has done more for the pacification of that country than he; no man has done more to obliterate those hateful animosities which for 250 years have been the curse cf a great country. And almost everywhere Mr. Alerriman lias boon received with great cordiality. ’ ’)

LABOUR AND ITS DEFEAT. f

A STRIKE PREDICTION

JOHANNESBURG. October 25,

The president of the Trades Federation states that Labour neglected the trades union organisation for the bal-lot-box only to find the capitalist greater in the baMot-box than in the vmrkshop. He predicts that the condition will force strikes in the near future.

COUNCIL OF EMPIRE

A PRESS COMMENT

LONDON, October 25,

The Times, in a leading article commenting on the victory of Genera? Botha in the South African election*, says that General Botha naikht well come to London, where his experience and devotion to the welfare of the Empire would be invaluable in council. Reasons for similar visits by representatives of Australia and Now Zealand are specially strong just row.

TERRIBLE FATAL FIRE

WORK-GIRLS KILLED AND BURNED NEW YORK, October 26. A disastrous fire occurred in a four*storeyed factory in Pittsburg. As 1 a result fourteen girls were killed and eight injured. In addition three girls are missing. The rapidity of the flames cut off the third and fourth! floors, where, the majority of the girls were working. They crowded into dressing-rooms, where their bodies lay in a heap. Two men on the second floor told the girls to Jump. They , caught such as obeyed the order, lowered them a s far as possible, and thence dropped them to the sidewalk.