GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 30 May 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

WHO STARTED THE WAR?

A BIT OP ANCIENT HISTORY. | Received 9 a.m. WASHINGTON, May 29. Mr. Morgentkan, a former United States Ambassador in Turkey, writes the June issue of the American "World's Work," saying that Baron Wanganheim, German Ambassador to Turkey in 1915 told him the Kaiser summoned him to Berlin for an Imperial Conference, which was held at Potsdam on July sth, 1914. The Kaiser presided, and nearly all the ambassadors, Moltke, Tirpitz, bankers and captains of industry were present. The Kaiser asked each if they were ready for Avar. All answered yes except the financiers, who said they must have two weeks to sell foreign securities and make loans. Morgenthan points out the Serbian ultimatum from Austria was sent on July 22, about two weeks after the conference, and adds that the record of stock exchanges all over the world show German financiers used the iterval profitably.

CONCERNING HINDENBURG. GERMAN LEADER ILL. LONDON, May 28. In connection with recent rumours of Hindenburg's death, German papers are now allowed to announce that Hindenburg has been ill for several weeks, and that Mackensen has been co-operating with Ludendorff at the German headquarters in Belgium. EXCHANGE OP PRISONERS. LONDON, May 28. Reuter learns that almost simultaneously with the decision to exchange all war prisoners, communications have been received from r*t*&ermany through the Dutch, Government that it is now awaiting an assurance that the cases already submitted by Britain arc accepted by the German representatives. LONDON, May 28. Mr. Bonar Law confirmed the report that the Government ,was negotiating a. wide scheme for exchanging prisoners, broadly following the Franco-German scheme. Those affected included civilians, as well as war prisoners, but he could' not say whether the question of prisoners interned in neutral countries would be raisedj, & Mr. Macpherson stated that of 65,000 German prisoners in England 42,000 were employed in agriculture. There were great difficulties -in ;> '-tho way of employing them in coal mines.

CARING FOR DISABLED MEN. PERCENTAGES OF INJURIES. Rceived 10.10 a.m.. LONDON' May 29. Mr. Hodge, in the House of Commons, said it would be necessary to create a new department to deal with tret provision of artificial limbs, also an experimental laboratory to enable inventions to be exploited for the benefit of disabled men. Up to the end of April, 341,025 disabled men had received pensions. The percentage of various causes included, eyesight 28, leg amputation cases 26. amputations 1.4, tuberculosis 11.60, heart diseases 10.3, nervous disease;just under 6, insanity 7.5, frostbite 9, deafness 2. (