GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, 4 March 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

LABOUR TROUBLE IN ARGENTINA. Received 8.50. *■>'• BUENOS AIRES, March 3. Serious armed conflicts have taken place between railway strikers and troops, in which two strikers were killed and many injured.

SCHOLARSHIPS FOR N. Z. SOLDIERS.

Received 8.50.

LONDON, March 3

Thirteen overseas sailors and soldiers' scholarships are donated by the Rhodes' trustees and the Kitchener National Memorial Fund, tenable at various universities. They include Second-Lieut. C. Forsdick, N. Z. Machine Gun Corps, tenable at the Imperial College, and Capt. N. S. Johnson, N.Z. Rifle Brigade, tenable at Oxford. PLOTTING IN SWITZERLAND. HOTBED OF FINANCIAL SCHEMES. Received 8.50. PARIS, March 3. The espionage case has revealed a veritable nest of financial schemers in Switzerland, working in Germany's interest. The chief operator was an Austrian banker named Rosenberg, who lived in refuge in Zurich. He engaged a large staff of spies, for whose payment Erzeberger, the German deputy, deposited a large sum. Erzeberger and 8010 stayed at the same ■hotel in Zurich in 1915. The evidence obtained proved the visits of agents, who frequently visited Zurich, and on returning paid Swiss cheques into Paris banks.