GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, 8 January 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

CONFERENCE OF ALLIED PREMIERS, ft Received 10.30. PARIS, Jan 7. An early' conference of Allied Premiers is likely. ' SUCCESSFUL AUSTRALIANS. Received 10.30. NEW YORK, Jan 7. Madame Melba has made a successful tour. Stella Power (Melba's protegee) had an enthusiastic reception. PIGHTING IN ARABIA. 'ARABS DEFEAT TURKS. SYDNEY, January 7. The War Office reports: The Arab?/ in Hedjay successfully raided the railway southward of Maan. They also prisonered the garrison of an important post further south. CHINESE TROOPS FOR EUROPE. PEKHST, January 6. The Chino-French Commission is about to consider the sending of Chinese troops to Europe. Tuanchijui, director of the War Bureau nas requested the Government to allocate the Boxer indemnity fund for the purpose. BRITAIN'S MAN-POWER. LONDON, January 7. Labourites are distinctly favourable to the Government's outlined manpower proposals. A series of sectional trade conferences will follow, at which details will be discussed writ Sir Eric Geddes. ITALIAN MAN-POWER. PARIS, January 7. "The Matin" in an interview with the Italian Finance Minister, stated that 4,320,000 Italians, allowing for reduction by losses were now in the field.