GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 26 July 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

oNAVY PRIZE FUNDS. DOMINIONS TO PARTICIPATE. LONDON. July 24. In the House of 'Commons to-day Dr. T. J. Macnamara (Parliamentary Secretary to the Admiralty), speaking on the Naval Prize Bill,' stated that the Dominion's naval forces were included in the scheme for the post-war distribution of prize funds. AUSTRIA'S BAD STATE AMSTERDAM, July 24. The Austrian Finance Minister, in introducing the Budget, said the war expenditure for the four years was 1609 million sterling. It was estimated that the fifth year would reach five hundred million. The financial situation was serious, but not hopeless. THE ALBANIAN CAMPAIGN. A COMPLETE SUCCESS. LONDON, July 24. A French Eastern communique statQS Operations in Albania have resulted in the occupation of the whole of the mountainous region dominating the right side of the Valley of the Tevoli. We have taken villages above the junction with the Malta on the left bank. Six hundred and forty-two . were prisoncred between the 21st and 23rd. Our losses were very small. DISCUSSION OF DOMINION INTERESTS. Received 11.45 a.m. LONDON. July 25. The Speaker of the House of Commans presided over"a large attendance of members of Parliament at the first of a series of Empire Parliamentary Association meetings to be held to enable the Dominion statesmen to state •*eir views affecting Dominion fn'-C"-ests.