GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 May 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

COAL MINERS STRIKE. 15,000 MEN OUT. Received 8.30 a.m. LONDON, May 28. Wcstonmouth mines arc idle, seventeen thousand minors having struck because twenty men’s pay was stopped at Hollybush whilst they carried a dead comrade home. The men claim this is contrary to coal fields practice SWEDISH EXPORTS TO GERMANY Received 9.45 a.m. NEW YORK, May 28. The New York Herald’s Stockholm correspondent interviewed Mr. Meliel Lorgen, Swedish Minister of Justice, who said it was true that in early stages of the war Government control of re-exports was irregular, but since Americans entry he believed no goods imported from America had been re-exported to Germany. WAR TO THE KNIFE. CONAN DOYLE’S SENTIMENTS LONDON, May 27. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,, in a letter to the Press, writes: We should have shot three leading prisoners when Nurse Cavell was murdered, and two submarine commanders for Captain Fryatt. German prisoners should be picketed between hospital tents, and any captured bombers should be executed, with a notice that a similar fate awaits all those captured at such work. If the Germans attempt reprisal let us have counter-reprisals, sharp, stern and relentless. If it must be war to the knife, let it at least be equal to both parties. A CALL FOR VENGEANCE. AUSTRALIANS AND NEW ZEALANDERS KILLED IN HOSPITAL. LONDON, May 27. Australians and. New Zealanders have fresh reason for steeling their j hearts against the . barbarous enemy I owing to the bombing of the base hospital'in France on the 19th. A considerable number rof Australian and New Zealand wounded were-among the hundreds under treatment at the hospital when it was bombed. Some were killed. Others were again wounded. Several, already in a low state through 'of shock. **■ i

v TURKEY AND BULGARIA. Germany seriously alarmed. AMSTERDAM, May 27 German rilitary circles are seriously concerned about Turkey and Bulgaria’s military inactivity,' which they fear hides designs'against the Central Powers; hence negotiations for closer unity between Austria and Germany. The “Munchener Naehriten” states that the Emperor’s visit to Sofia and Constantinople is regarded as of the greatest political importance, presaging the inclusion of the southern allies in the Middle Europe economic scheme N. Z. PARCELS MAIL LOST. LONDON, May 27. The Press Bureau says: The Post-master-General announces that a parcel mail from New Zealand, posted between March Ilth and 19th, was lost at sea through enemy action.