GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 June 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

DECLARATION OF WAR ON GREECE DEMANDED BY BULGARIA. ; Received 9.10 ; ~ v <i* | AMSTERDAM^JuAe 2S; %he\Kreuz Zeitung' states^-that Bulgaria is demanding that" Austria and Germany declare war on Greece. Newspaper comments state this is a question of expediency. " ~ y MACEDONIAN FRONT. •:'^-,•;.■.,;.,, - WASHINGTON; June .27. [ The; .Greek ■ Legation states ..that the ..Greek troops .sent to the Macedonian front, gives th,e Allies in. that,theatre a decided supreniacy. LEAGUE OF NATIONS. DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY. ■,.,;■!LONDON, June 27. The newspapers pay a tribute to Lord Curzon's fair and statesmanlike examination of, the League of Nations proposals, indicating that the Govern- ! ment is exploring the subject carcj fully. Lord Curzon fully recognised the difficulties, such as whether the League would be' confined to Europe, or include America, China and Japan, and on what terms these would be admitted, now to secure limitations of I soldiers, guns,' iih.ps, or States joining the, Jeague, how to remove dreadful in.struments, : of /war, including, submarines, .poison gas, and armed aircraft, [ and. how to impose the conditions on future generations. On the other hand, he cordially associated himself with the advocates of the principle, and did not doubt that the idea had come to stay.

A CURIOUS STORY.

A curious and striking story was told to a Southland "Tiines >; reporter last week, the facts of which are beyond doubt. Two years ago a youth enployed in the shop of a well-known Invercargil grocer made up his mind to go to the war. He was only eighteen years of age, hut was well grown, and managed to pass the doctors and join the Expeditionary Force. In due course he went to the front, was wounded, invalided to New Zealand, and discharged. On Wednesday morning of last week the ballot list .had an unusual interest for him, for he read his own name in it among the youths of the First Division automatically called up on reaching the age of 20 years There was perhaps nothing surprising in that. The Government Statistician could hardly be expected to know that this, lad of twenty years had two years' service to his credit, and had received an honourable discharge from the Army. The rrext morning ,however, was still more interesting. The lad's mother received a telegram from the Defence Department reporting with regret that her son had died -of wounds on June 6th, and the good mother would doubtless have heen very much more affected by the news had her son, the soldier reportd dead, not been sitting in the house at that moment. That was not the end of it. On the Thursday afternoon the mother received a bundle of her own letters to her son while he was at the front. Across the envelopes was stamped the word "deceased." Despite all this official evidence that her soldier son was dead, the mother accepted his bodily presence and his' broad smile as clear proof that he was. very much alive.