A SENSATIONAL REVELATION.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 218, 25 October 1916, Page 4

A SENSATIONAL REVELATION.

: No surer or more vivid indication of Germany’s position in this great war is' perhaps possible than disclosed in the desperate efforts she is making to get -neutrals to institute a peace campaign. On the other hand the Allies determinedly reiterate that they will have no peace tha£ does not bring with it a crushing out of all thought of world domination; a peace that cannot load to another war in., the comparatively nean future. c Germany i s bullying, importuning and engineering for, peace, but Britain and her allies will have no peace that does not come with complete victory. The United States presidential election is a centre around which complex and cunning German engineering is proceeding; but English Americans know what such a peace would meam . Hyphenated Americans would in next to no time dominate the country and become u power in assisting a rapid attainment of World hegemony by Germany. It seems that even ! Candidate Hughes has boon playing with fire; he has compromised his chances of success by a secret conference with German-Ainericans, who are willing and anxious to enter into a bargain to support him if he will attack the British in his speeches. (Surely Mr Hughes has learned what dependence can be put upon German agreements of the kind; he knows that the Huns would directly go and approach his opponent just as secretly, and just as secretly enter into a compact with him on precisely similar terras. Mr Hughes admits that he conferred, but denies that he made any promises Here is a /revelation sensational enough for anything; it virtually amounts to a German conspiracy to engineer the election of a president, who will in turn enter into an agreement to assist Germany. It is inviting the centre of American power and jurisdiction to become proGcrmau; to sacrifice the most vital interests of all true Americans; to endanger the freedom of not only the United States but of all the other Eng-lish-speaking peoples on the American continent. Truly these Hun supermen stop nowhere on the road to achieving their end; they have long left the highways of moralityy and now there seems no ending of the devious and secret paths of treachery and calumny by which they arc reaching even into the heart- of a great nation like the 1. nited States. The conspiracy was too great a strain even for some of the American participants, and it found daylight. A German actress arrives on tiro scene to take a hand; no sooner does she land in the States than the Ge n.mn-Amori-cau newspaper man is ready to interview her. Nothing is too deep, or big, or subtle, and no means too disgusting and contemptible to bo used by the Germans in their desperate efforts to got a peace campaign started before the Allied arras m\ike it to 3 late. They know that peace is coming, but it is not of the brand they desire, n it withstanding the possible.fact that it may be “made in Germany.” It is tlm last thing the Allies want from thac factory under present management.

The Taihape bowling green will be available tomorrow for players if weather permits, although the official opening does not take place till November 3.

A first-class all round tailor can find permanent employment at a good salary by applying to John Cobbe, Ltd., Feilding.

Messrs Collinson and Cunningharae, Ltd, invite inspection of show-time visitors. See advt. page 6 for some particulars of their business in Palmerston North.

The base of an acetylene buggylamp lost between Koeke and Taihape, is advertised for. Finder is asked to leave it at Mataroa Stables or at the Gretna Hotel, Taihape.

The Levin Co-Operative Dairy Company paid out between £4500 and £SOOO for buttcr-fat supplied during September. This is at the rate of 1/G per lb of butter-fat.

Mr. George Robert Warren, of Kimbolton, was found dead on the road about two miles from the village. He had evidently fallen from his horse. A wife and small family survive.

War exigencies have compelled a gospel caravan used by an itinerant missioner in rural Kent to be dependent upon a brewer’s steam lorry, laden with casks of beer, for being hauled from village to village.

Evidently the Government is taking care that enemy aliens shall not have interests in mining ventures in New Zealand. A gentleman who sent a new company’s papers for registration has just had them returned with a memo, that affidavits are required to

state that no enemy aliens are am ongst the shareholders.

Among the attempted smuggling devices used by persons in the Unitea States for Germany is nickel cut into thin strips and slipped into the corrugations of the sort of paper used for wrapping medicine bottles, innocent pictures being placed between two layers of this loaded paper the whole labelled “Work of art—with care.”

The present cost of the war to New Zealand is approximately one million sterling per month, a heavy bill that is being met without exchange. This amount includes transport and cost of provisioning and fully maintaining our army in the field with equipment and munitions at Imperial rates, whicn some time ago averaged six shillings per man a day.

The late arrival of wool packs in Napier has seriously delayed the farm ers of Hawke’s Bay in commencing shearing operations. These packs arrived in Auckland by the Waitomo last Saturday week, and instead of being transhipped at that port, as was expected, they were carried on to Wei lington, to be discharged there. The packs will not now arrive in Napier until this week.

At the request of the trustees of the late Lord Kitchener, Sir George Arthur, who ' was His ' ‘private secretary, has undertaken to write his biography. All Lord Kitchener’s private papers and correspondence have been placed in Sir George Arthur’s hands for tlic purpose of the work, and he will have the benefit of the co-operation and assistance of Lord Derby. The book will be published by Macmillan.

A meeting of the Red Cross Committee is to be held to-night for settling up ail matters in connection with “Our Day” functions. Holders of raffle tickets are notified that they must hand them in before 8 p.m., Thursday, as the raffles take place that night; tickets not in cannot participate. Prizes and results will be given out in the Three Stars picture theatre on Thursday night during the interval.

Auckland business firms concerned in the importation of iron goods from the United States, and that in some lines of trade it will be impossible to obtain the fulfilment of orders earlier than April of next year. Particular difficulty is experienced in procuring supplies of fencing-wire, so much required by settlers in progressing districts, both as to plain and barbed wire. Recent trade advices estimate that as much as 20 million tons or iron manufactured goods are on order in America. One firm alone admits that it is behind hand in the fulfilment of orders to the extent of six million tons.

It is stated by the Gisborne correspondent of the New Zealand Herald that a Queensland buyer has spent £6OOO in the purchase of AberdeenAngus cattle in the Poverty Bay district, and recently a herd of 115 stud bulls and heifers was shipped to Brisbane, this being one of the largest shipments of stud cattle sent from New Zealand. Last year the same purchaser took 50 head from Poverty Bay, and the cattle found much favour in Australia, being a breed that splendidly stands the droughts common to Queensland, and having the further advantage of maturing early.

The question of establishing a municipal bakery in Levin is now being considered \by the Borough committee having been appointed to go fully into the matter.

General Bernhardi, the German military writer, whose books were largely instrumental in bringing about the present war, has been invested by the Kaiser with the Ordor pour la Merite.

Two Samoan natives while swimming and propelling a raft in front of them at Fagaloa were seized by sharks. One disappeared almost immediately, and the other, was got ashore terribly mutilated and died.

In the list of prizewinners at the Red Cross Day the name of Mrs Draper was omitted as the winner of tfre first prize fer decorated pram. The Taihape Boy Scouts won the prize for best ambulance corps.

The recent increases in wages granted by the employers to freezing works .employees, together with the 2s 6d war bonus awarded to the slaughtermen by the Arbitration Court, willy it is estimated, cost the freezing companies of the Dominion about £(50,000 per annum.

The Gisborne Licensing Bench decided not to grant a conditional license for the Turf Club 's races, the chairman remarking that members wanted to follow the example set by the King, adn thought it not desirable to grant any nkfre licenses during the currency of the war.

It is understood that Mr. Battle, Chairman of the Waxiganui Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, with Ur. Skerman (Marton- and Mr. James, architect, will visit Taihape to-morrow in connection with the selection of a site on which to erect an infectious disease hospital.

Says the New Zealand Times: The plain truth is that neither Australia nor New Zealand can do anything like what they ought to do in the way of land settlement for their own returned soldiers, let alone doing anything worth while for British soldiers, until they break down land monopoly.

“If I’m prohibited it will only cost me more to get the drink, ” declared a man in the Police Court when asked why he objected to the issue of a prohibition order against him. As there was not sufficient evidence to justify the arbitrary issue of an order, the reason given was accepted as sufficient. ■■ . '

“I may be a crank on this subject,” said Mr Guy Williams at a meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association, but I still hold that during the war we should offer certificates in lieu of prize money.” Mr Williams ventured this opinion on refusing to allow his name to be put on a canvassing committee.

Mr. D. J. McLennan has received instructions from Mr. F. J. Beattie, who is giving up his carrying business to sell the whole of his horses and carrying plant absolutely without reserve,'“on Saturday next, October 28, at 2 p.m. sharp. Particulars are advertised in another column..

Mr J. W. Russell, of Opunake, received most distressing news recently. In a letter from a sister in the Old Country he learns that in the recent great offensive he has lost three brothers, three nephews and three cousins. Besides this, another brother was wounded in the Jutland battle, and is still in hospital.

The two Auckland men, Michael Tobin and Walter Preston, the principals of the “two-up school” in Durham Street, raided on Saturday, were eacn fined £75 and costs on a charge of being keepers of a common gaminghouse, the alternative being two months’ imprisonment. John Coffey, the doorkeeper, was fined £3 and costs, as an assistant.

Several anti-shouting prosecutions are to be heard at Hamilton on Monday next. At one hotel yesterday seven names were taken, including that of the barman, against whom probably three charges will be preferred. It is understood that similar cases from another township will also be dealt with at the same time. A prosecution has also been instituted against the licensee of the Pirongia Hotel and two allcgcl abettors.