GENERAL CABINS.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 April 1918, Page 4

GENERAL CABINS.

WAR OFFICE CHANGES. ;■ Received 8.40 a.m. LONDON, April 21. Lord Milner will continue to the War Cabinet during the discussion of the general war question. Major-General Whigham has taken up duties in France. General Maurice is also likely to leave the General Staff for the field. f A MYSTERY CLEARED UP Received 8.40 a.m. V LONDON, April 21. . A farm worker’s discovery of Lord de Mauley’s body in a field i near Rainsbury, Berkshire, clears up the mystery which the police was investgating throughout the week. Deceased was a septuagenarian peer, who was frequently absent for weeks and months on cycling and walking tours. He disappeared on the 13th inst. It now appears he cycled ninety miles from Yeovil, including a visit to a brother, and apparently lost His way in the pitch darkness white searching for a cycle lamp and died of exhaustion. „ & < KUHLMANN IN DISGRACE. ASMTEEDAM, April 20. Dr. Kuhlmanh is confined to his; room suffering from inflammation of the throat. There is an impression that the illness is diplomatic, his dismissaL being expected, as high military cirelesare greatly dissatisfied with the failure of the Roumanian negotiations. KUHLMANN’S FUTURE. * Received 8.40 a.m. AMSTERDAM, April 21. The Westphalian Gazette states that Kuhlmann will probably retirewhen the Rumanian peace is dennitely settled. HOLLAND AND CEMENT. Received 8.40 a.m. ' ' ' LONDON, Aprli 21.' The Government Committee reports that British cement exported to Holland during the war did not reach the Germans for tho construction of pillboxes and other defences. The.-'; com--mittee recommends the, of trade. There is no evidence ; that, the Germans are unable to- meet all,thrown requirements. ■ ANZAC DAY CELEBRATIONS. Received 8.40 a.m. LONDON, * Apr?! 21. An Anzac Day'commemoratipn ' will, be held in London on Thursday, including services at Westminster Cathedral and the Central Pall. Concerts in' the evening will be attended by troop's 'and official representatives of the ‘Domihions and the Allies. KAISER’S COLOSSAL VICTORY. Received 8.40 a.m. ROME, April 21. Obviously obeying-the Government’s--orders, German municipalities are inundating the Kaiser with congratulations on his colossal victory. Severaltowns are erecting equestrian statues, of the Kaiser. . GERMANY FIXING THE INDEMNITIES. Received 11.55 a.m. LONDON, .April A telegram from Berlin sta4.es that:, negotiations are proceeding ibetween. the Government and the Reichstag: with a view to the official repudiation of the Reichstag’s resolution. Tirpitz and other pan-German speakers are now demanding that great; Britain and France pay indemnities, of five thousand millions sterling, m addition to France giving up somecolonies and Great Britain exportingraw material. The Reichstag Conservative leader*. Count Westarp, declared that exempt for the Independent Socialists theReichstag would unanimously favour the continuance of unrestricted submarining as a means of attaining/ peace by making England submissive. Even if England proposed an armistice- raising the blockade it would not compensate for abandonment of sub—marinism.