GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, 11 March 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

SUPPLIES FOR GERMANY. PROM RUMANIA AND RUSSIA. COPENHAGEN, March 8. - 1 The Hamburg ‘J Fremdenblatt ” states that Germany has secured the Rumanian oil industries and large quantities of grain and. fodder. It also states that the Ukraine is endeavouring by the 15th of April to deliver large quantities of grain, sugar, frozen meat and dried fruits. CABINET CRISIS IN .PORTUGAL. LISBON, March 8. Owing to the refusal of Unionist members of the Cabinet to adopt universal suffrage at the Presidential’dec-; 11 •i'i ill i*l „•>-’• J - ~7(J •I h j•; L tions. Cabinet reconstructed “with o out. Unionists, the Premiership Remain-' ing. unchanged! ' , V " 1 : :.,^dB^GINCl 7 intEiustees; 2 Z TOO MANY -HUN RESERVISTS..' .. ' ; LONDOIN, March 8. In the House of Lords Earl Derby, Minister for War, justifying the nonexchange of intefned civilians, said that of the fifteen thousand interned Germans in Britain eligble for repatriation, ..the majority were reservists of the ' German army, while of the, three thousand Britons at Ruthleben, two thousand were seafarers, whom Germany regarded as combatants.; ... TANKS’: WAR BOND day. OVER FOURTEEN MILLIONS a. RAISED;' ; .10 005;-* LONDON- March 8. The tanks in London yesterday raised £14,229,000. The total applications throughout the country for war bonds on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday amounted to £60,000,000. BRITISH WAR BONDS. HUGE CONTRIBUTIONS. Received 910. LONDON, March 10. Applications for war bonds notifed by the Bank of England for the first five days' of the business men’s week total over £112,000,000, not including the , remoter districts. London subscribed over £71,000,000, of which the city banks collected £24,000,000,

GERMANY TREE PASSAGE TO INDIA. A SIGNIFICANT DESPATCH. Received 8.40. NEW YORK, March 10. The Times gives prominence to a despatch from German sources stating the Germans claim to have acquired a direct free route via Russia to Persia and Afghanistan. The Times points out if the despatch is true, this has an important bearing on the situation in Western Asia, and possibly Idia. The passage through Persia probably will meet only nominal opposition. A NEW ZEALAND HERO. LONDONN, March 9. The Albert Medal has been awarded to Trooper James Werner Magnusson, of the New Zealand Mounteds On the occasion when a transport was sunk he dived into a rough sea, swam to the assistance of an injured soldier, and placed him 'in a boat. He then re‘■urned to the sinking ship and rejoined his unit, but lost his life.