GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 August 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

CZECHOSLOVAKS AS A NATION RECOGNITION APPRECIATED. Received -9.15 a.m. _ ; . ' NEW YORK,--15. The '■ N(pv York press praises the .British recognition' of the Czeclio-Slo-yaks, and urges the United States to follow- 1 suit. -v/. ,;,' ' ’ 'V Professor Aiassaryk, President of the Czecho-Slovak National Council, in thanking Mr A. J. Balfour for British recognition, asserts that this step is conclusive evidence to all Austro-Hun-gary’s oppressed nations that Britain is engaged in a war of liberation. Bohema, when free, was in close political and spiritual union with the British nation. The present act has restored this union and liberated Bohemia, and was an effectual barrier to panGerman aggression. WORLD’S FOOD SHORTAGE INEVITABLE. PROVIDING FOR THE FUTURE, Received 8.45 a.m. LONDON, August 15. Mr. Clynes, in a speech at London, said the world’s food shortage w r as bound to increase, and the avoidance of waste had become more important. Every ten thousand tons of food saved enabled America to send two thousand more soldiers. The Allies’ Pood Controllers had just completed a scheme providing for a fair apportionment of food among the armies and population of various countries, which, if carried out in the spirit the representatives displayed, difficulties such as had been experienced would never return. THE KING’S MESSAGE TO HIS TROOPS. Received 11.20 a.m. LONDON, August 15 The Press Bureau announces that the King sent to Sir Douglas Haig, a message saying; "I must warmly congratulate your troops on the happy returns for their operations for the past week. I return home with a feeling of profound admiration for our armies. I am convinced that through the union of the Allies, with God’s help, we will secure a victorious peace ' worthy of the noble sacrifice made, a peace which must be a surety for coming generations against suffering such as the present world has endured.