GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 30 December 1915, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE COMPULSION QUESTION:

NO OFFICIAL /NEWS.

HAS REACHED AUSTRALIA.

(Reed. 9.25 a.m.)

MELBOURNE, This Day.

Mr. Hughes states that he has not received any official information regarding the question of compulsion in England, and that he is disinclined to make any statement until he does, when he will- probably have something to say.

JAPANESE TRADE.

AX ENORMOUS INCREASE

(Reed. 5.23 a.m.) TOKIO, December 29. The Diet adjourned after a stormy session, due to the Oura bribery case. 1915 statistics show excess of exports over imports amounting to twenty million sterling, whereas an adverse balance was submitted for the previous five years aggregating twe|jE: six million. The Government ten million worth of arms and munitions resulting in a great increase ot the European specie reserve. There

has been a boom in. stocks, some of ■which have risen b|y several hundred pef cent, and enormoug profits ba Ship* ping Em'd ptleß industries Save | realised.