GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 May 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

o GERMAN MANUFACTURERS BUSY i NO ACCUMULATION OF STOCKS. FOR AFTER-WAR TRADE, Received 8.50 a.m. LONDON, May 13. The’ Daily Chronicle’s Amsterdam correspondent states the annual fair at Leipzig was a decided success, there being many Bulgarian, Swedish, Norwegian and Danish buyers. There were no luxury articles in leather or rubber goods exhibited, but thousands of substitutes, especially foods. ..German' manufacturers arc producing larger quantities of cheap fancy goods made from substitute war materials, which ,arp. cheaper and more plentiful and : durable than the original raw materials used before the war. It is untrue that manufacturers are accumulating vast stock for foreign markets after the war. Factories are working under difficulties, but won’t take long getting busy, after the war Meanwhile they are supplying goods to Holland Scandinavia, Balkans and Turkey.

INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT. Received 9.10 a.m. WASHINGTON, May 13 The War Trade Board has arranged an international commercial agreement between the United States, Britain, Belgium, ad Italy, whereby exports will only be granted under license, the purpose being to conserve material, j labour and tonnage and to eliminate i all shipment not necessary or essenj tial to the war. This does not affect j shipments of British goods to the coli onies. I — | CHINA’S CIVIL WAR i PEKIN, May 12. I Prolonged civil war, of which there ! is no prospect of an early termination j is imposing on the people throughout I the country indescribable hardships j Meantime ten provinces are infested j brigands, bands, varying from j hundreds to thousands. They pilb.ro. 1 murder, kidnap, and seize traigs... T;ho j local authorities are inert and I Tlic Government continuously., jgnqr.cs j popular petitions and the. waiv ; . for nhich the leaders’ personal ajrirqosit- 1 ies 'and ambitions are mainly sible; ; -THE ENEMY AND AGRICULTURE.' A Received 10.30 a.m. I LONDON, May 13. ! Arrangements have been made to , take'3o,ooo of the younger agricultural • Workers of the fittest category before j jvly. It s expected the authorities ! will put to considerable utility the | German prisoners of war for agricul- f [tube. ' ' ■ - !'■■ ■ - : •' • ■- •- J" 1 1 BRITISH MISSION TO BRAZIL. j . ; j Received 11.50 a.m. I RIO JANEIRO, May 13. The British commercial mission was cordially welcomed, and newspapers, commenting, ask if the Washington Government is sufficiently interested in America’s future coffirmcrce with Brazil to take steps to offset British efforts. IMPERIAL AND DOMESTIC j . SETTLEMENT. | Received 10 SO a.rn. i LONDON, May 13. Earl Brassoy has given notice of motion at the Colonial Institute for the meeting on the 29th that the separation off Imperial matters from the Motherland’s domestice affairs is urgently necessary; that the settlement of the future constitution of the United Kingdom is an essential preliminary to discussion of the future Government of the Empire at a special Imperial Conference at the conclusion of the war.