GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 June 1918, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES.

FATE OP GERMANY'S LOSTCOLONIES. Received 10.10 a.m. LONDON, June 41. In view of the opening of Imperial Conferences, the Colonial Institute passed a resolution urging that in the interests of the Empire and the. native races, none of the former German possessions overseas, /should be jrestored. NEW ZEALAND MEDICO MISSING* Received 10.10 a.m. LONDON, June 11. Colonel Milne Thomson, who is reported missing, was 'formerly surgeon of the New Zealand Mounted Police, and also at the Napier Hospital GERMAN, WELSH COAL FIELD. Received 10.10 a.m.. LONDON, June 11. A Welsh coal magnate, Mr D. R_ Llewellyn, has purchased 5000 acres of coalfield in West Glamorgan, containing 2,300,000 tons of workable coal which belonged to a German syndicate before the war. It is anticipated the field will provide work for inany thousands of colliers instead of the eight hundred now employed. GERMAN REPRISALS ON BRITISH PRISONERS. FOR AIR RAIDS ON RHINE TOWNS, Received 11.10 a.m. GENEVA, June 11.

Eight French prisoners who" escaped from a camp near Mannheim state the number of German reprisal camps. have been greatly during the last three months..- Britishare treated most harshly,;and their treatment is more severe after eack air raid on the Rhine towns.