GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 9 August 1917, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

MEXICO. GERMANS STIRRING STRIFE. EL PASO, August 8. Germans and German sympathisers at Chihuahaa are circulating propaganda that the United States is on the verge of revolution arid appeal for a strike to regain all former Mexican territory. Bombs -were placed on three Norwegian ships, one American ship, and one Newfoundland schooner. BANDIT CHIEF AGAIN. VILLA’S ARMY VANISHES NEW YORK, August 7. Francisco Villa, the Mexican rebel ’feader, has been eliminated as a military factor in Mexico, and has reverted to banditry, with one hundred followers, in the vicinity of Indeduranga. CONTROL OF RECRUITING \ LONDON, August 7. In the House of Commons to-day, Mr Bonar Law stated that Cabinet had accepted the principle of the transfer of responsibility for recruiting to civilian control. A LEGISLATIVE CRISIS. IN NEWFOUNDLAND PARLIAMENT Received 11.10

OTTAWA, August 8

The Upper House of Newfoundland has rejected a Bill for the taxation of business profits for war revenue, precipitating a legislative crisis.