GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 20 June 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ECHO OF BILLING TRIAL. LONDON - June 18. 9 » Mrs Stuart, who was a witness in the Billing trial, has been arrested. iShe is accused of marrying, in 1913, a motor omnibus driver named Bray, who is, now fighting in France, and bigamously marrying Captain Stuart, in July, 1917, alleging that Bray was killed, in August, 1914. WHAT THE KAISER THINKS. CHARACTERISTIC SPEECHES AMSTERDAM. June IS. A Berlin message states that the Kaiser spent the anniversary of his accession to the throne at main headquarters, It was the occasion of extraordinary speeches. Hindenburg renewed his vow of ■ unswerving loyalty till death. In the name of Germany’s sons, he said the face of a world of enemies, never in their history had shown such proof of their strength and right to existence, which was due to their indefatigable war lord. The Kaiser, replying, said he had always hoped that when danger was most threatening, God would supply the right men. This had been done. Heaven had bestowed upon the German Empire Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Proceeding, the Kaiser said the struggle was between two world views: Either German principles of right, freedom, honour and morality must be upheld, or the Anglo-Saxon idolatry of mammon must-, be victorious. “We shall gain victory—the victory of the .German standpoint; That is what is in question.’’

GERMANY IN THE PACIFIC. MUST HAVE HER LOST POSSESSIONS. LONDON, June 18. The German Government has officially recognised Erent Kienatz’s book on the value of the German South Sea Islands, which replies to suggestions 1 that these could be advantageously bartered for more substantial possessions elsewhere. Kienatz is the spokesman for the Nationalists, who are rallying to maintain the integrity of German possessions in the Australasia and the South Seas. The book is full of elaborate statistics to prove the money value of the islands and their produce. He values them at seventy million sterling, exclusive of German New Guinea, where the phosphates alone are worth 303 millions sterling. He considers these possessions worth double all Germany’s other colonies, and proceeds to say: The real value of our South Sea and Australasian possessions is to be found in other reasons than economic. We must hold them for world prestige, without which we cannot have gold or a colonial policy. We dare not dlsappear from the earth’s greatest ocean, if only because of China’s, Australia’s, Anglo-Saxon, and Japanese antagonism. This antagonism must be exploited to the utmost. Let us therefore retain our South Sea possessions, and try to increase them.

A REAL HERO. LONDON, June 18. An inquest at Southampton revealed that Lance-Corporal Ernest Pools, °f Sydney, dived from a breakwater in France in order to save a child. He was too modest to mention the case when taken to hospital suffering from dislocation of the spine and bronchitis as the result of the dive. The jury expressed admiration of Poole’s gallantry.