GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 May 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

:HU£E SUPPLIES TO- .GERMANY. ■ , ROME, May 10. The seizure of Parodi's documents shows that he despatche'd huge supplies'of jute to Chiass'o. lii order to defraud 'tlie'Customs the consignments were disguised as hemp and tow. A great' fire : occurred early in 1917 in the' national ropemaking manufactories and Cornigliano, wherein a large quantity of enemy jute was destroped. Parodi falsified the : counts, and secured the insurance money as though the jute belonged to the Italians. Parodi was recently severely criticised for keeping a large number of merchant steamers idle at Genoa, obstructing Allied traffic. LITTLE ENGLANDERS. LONDON, May 11. Speaking at the Newspaper Press Fund dinner, Sir Trios. Mackenzie urged public men to visit the Dominions instead of remaining at home in ignorance of such vital questions as the future of the late German colonies In the Pacific. If the Empire was to be 1 kept together, it must bring to its councils men who voiced the aspirations of the peoples of the Dominions, the importance of which public men should realise. Germany had been allowed to get a grip on the tnrdats of the Dominions, and had almost strangled them. WILHELM AND KARL MEET. Received 11 a.m. COPENHAGEN, May 12. The Kaiser meets the Emperor Karl at the Austrian Headquarters to-day. MYSTERIOUS FIRES IN GERMANY Received .11 a.m. LONDON, May 12. The outbreak bT mysterious and destructive fires continue in Germany The latest instances ar e the destruction of the Berlin municipal granary. containing. 1000 tons of cereals and the burning of 15,000 acres of forest ochtrup, in Westphalia. TINO INTERNALLY ILL. Received 12.55 a.m. PARIS, May 12. "Le Journal's" Zurich, correspondent reports Constantine's condition as grave ,and his family have been summoned to his bedside.