AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 18 September 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

INSTRUCTION HOSPITALS TO BE ESTABLISHED. FOR RESTORATION OF WAR’S VICTIMS. Received 8.50. WASHINGTON, Sept 17. The Government proposes to establish a chain of nineteen Red Cross instruction hospitals, -where the wounded and maimed will be restored to health and taught trades. ARGENTINE. PROHIBITING GERMAN WIRELESS. Received 8.50. BUENOS AYRES, Sept 17. The Government has prohibited the German wireless company transmitting or receiving messages between Germany and Argentina. The Labour element has taken advantage of the Luxburg riots to call several strikes. Rails were torn up by the mob ? and German property menaced. ARGENTINE CRISIS. STRIKES AND SABOTAGE. BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 17. Though the crisis is temporarily over, the excitement continues. The majority of Congress opposes the Government, whose policy is considered vacillating. Strikes are occurring on French and British railways, and a general strike is probable. Already there has been much sabotage, and •stores and rolling stock have been burned. A FRENCH TRAITOR. PARIS, Sept. 17. A remarkable development has occurred in connection with the so-called “Turmel affair.” Turmel was a deputy who left Swiss bank notes worth one thousand pounds sterling in a room in the Chamber of Deputies in July last. Ho did not claim them until last week, when?.he explained that he had received the money for legal services. He denied that he had received it from Switzerland for disclosing events which occurred at the secret session of the Chamber of Deputies in June. A Parliamentary inquiry was opened, and Turmel on Saturday attempted to enter Switzerland, but wa s stopped on the frontier bearing an expired passport.