GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, 18 December 1917, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

KAISER'S ABUSE OF ENGLAND.

THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

SLANDERED.

Received 10.50.

NEW YORK, Dec 17.

The New York Tribune declares the Kaiser in 1908 predicted this world war in the course of an interview printed for the Century Magazine, but which was suppressed before publication at Germany’s urgent request. All copies were burned except one, which is intact. This shows that the Kaiser charged England with neutralising Germany’s growing power. The interview reeked with abuse of King Edward and slander ,of the Catholic Church in Germany and elsewhere. The Kaiser also characterised the Anglo-Japanese alliance as un-Chris-tian. ~T.,-. EXCHANGE OF WOUNDED. f*ANGLO-GERiMAN AGREEMENT. • THE HAGUE, Dec 16. The British and German Governments have agreed to arrangements for exchanging and transporting wounded and invalid war prisoners. Three vessels will be employed, sailing under the Dutch and Red Cross flags. The first will leave Rotterdam for Boston on January Ist, carrying 850 liberated British prisoners < It is expected that, the work of exchanging will take four months. THE CAILLAUX SENSATION. PARIS, Dec 16. M. Caillaux (ex-Premier of France) was examined before a Parliamentary Committee. He protested that he was entirely innocent of the charges preferred. He admitted that he had been in the company .of certain "persons, like Cavaliini, who had come to a bad end. AUSTRALIAN NEWS. CONSCRIPTION CAMPAJuN. GREAT MEETING IN SYDNEY. SYDEY, Dec 17. It is estimated that 125,000 were present at the Domain demonstration. Mr Ryan was the chief speaker. Feeling ran high, but everything was quiet. MR. HUGHES' THREAT. MELBOURNE, Dec 17. At a conscription meSfjftgf- \Mir Hughes said that if the pimple failed to do their duty he believed Parliament would make them. GREAT DEMONSTRATIONS IN.. SYDNEY. SYDNEY, Dec 17. The anti-conscriptionists made the most on Sunday of the Domain demonstrations in spreading their gospel. There was an enormous crowd on Sunday for the final rally lief ore the decision day. Scores of speakers amongst the packed masses found noisy and demonstrative support The “Yessers” held a counter-de-monstration, with a solid following.