RUMANIA.

Taihape Daily Times, 18 March 1918, Page 5

RUMANIA.

KING GONE TO SWITZERLAND.

Received 11.30.

BERNE, March 17,

The “Peste Naple,” Burapest, declares the King of Rumania has gone to Switzerland rather than hinder peace negotiations.

LABOUR AND THE WAR.

AMERICA’S ATTITUDE,

Received 9.10

WASHINGTON, March IT,

In view of the misunderstanding among British and French Labourites regarding representatives to the interAllied Labour conference in London In February. Mr. Gompers has cablcc to Mr. Arthur Henderson and M. Albert Thomas (French Socialist) that Labour in all the Allied countries must co-operate in the gigantic task of destroying autocracy. He explained it was impossible, owing to the shortness of time, to send representatives to the February conference, but he refuses to meet representatives of Labour from enemy countries while they are fighting against democracy and the world’s freedom.

MORE GERMAN PERFIDY. BELGIAN RELIEF SHIP SEIZED. Received 11.30. COPENHAGEN, March 17. The Germans have seized the steamer Princessen Ingeborg, carrying grain for the Belgian Relief Committee, and taken her to Kiel, though they promised safe conduct to Holland.