GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 June 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

THE PO&f.WAE STRUGGLE. HUGE COMBINE FORMED. Received 555 a.m. LONDON, June 9. It is reported that (a huge combine of armament and ammunition firms has been completed with a capital aggregating twenty to thirty millions to compete in the post-war struggle. EXPLOSION AT BRESLAU.

Received 8.55 a.m. ZURICH, June 10. A large explosion took place at a, big munition factory, near Breslau* Six were killed and two hundred injured. THE ENTENTE-TEUTON CONFERENCE. SESSION OPENS TO RUMBLE OP FLANDERS' GUNS. ORDER OF BUSINESS DISCLOSED. Received 9.25 a.m. LONDON, June 10. The Daily Telegraph's Rotterdam correspondent says the opening session of The Hague Conference formulated a programme much wider than many dared to hope. It provides a conference to deal with the following subjects:—First, the scrupulous carrying out of existing agreements; second, treatment and conditions of employment of war prisoners; third, reprisal questions; fourth, extension of

agreements concerning repatriation or internment in other countries; fifth, methods for selection of sick and wounded within these categories; sixth, improvement of camp conditions, including feeding of war prisoners and interned men. The meeting is held at JPmonient when the delegates from countries which have reached a crisis in the life and death struggle. Outside the conference could hear rumble of guns in.JFlanders. It is a strange paradox to see British and Germans entering fhe.„same door, military representatives., like their civilian colleagues, ';Wearing.top hat and frock coat of diplomacy. Outsiders are scarcely able to distinguish friend from enemy. There were no formal introductions. The delegates, simply bowing to each other, took their seats on either side of a long table, whereat Mr. Loudon presided. SOUTH AFRICAN PRISONERS. Received 11.20 a.m. AMSTERDAM, June 10. The Berlin Tageblatt asserts that the German delegates will demand the exchange of 3500 German prisoners taken in South Africa.

ENORMOUS COMMEMORATION SERVICE. Received 9.25 a.m. LONDON, June 10. Mr. Borden, Sir T. Mackenzie, the Lord Mayor, Sheriff, and many Australian, Canadian. South African, and American soldiers attenoed the service at St. Columbus Church in commemoration of Dominion soldiers; especially Scottish, who had fallen in the war.