GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 August 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AUSTRIA'S WORRIES. WASHINGTON, August 25. Official dispatches from Switzerland say that attempts against the lives of officers of the Austrian armies iare increasing. The commanders of Austrian corps told officers always to carry revolvers. AMERICA AND ITALY. RECRUITING ARRANGEMENTS EFFECTED. COLUMBIA THREATENS GERMANY Received 9.20 a.m. WASHINGTON, August 26. Secretary Lansing states that the (Italian Ambassador signed a treaty governing the drafting of Americans living in Italy and Italians living in the United States. The Arbitration Treaty between the United States and Japan has been extended five years by the signatures of Lansing and Ishii. The "New York World's" correspondent at Cristobel, says Columbia country is approaching a rupture with Germany. President Suarez has appointed Dr. Hclquin Secretary of Foreign Relations. Holquin is strongly anti-German.

UNION OWNERSHIP OF SHOPS. Received 10.53 a.m. SYDNEY, this day. A circular issued by the organising committee of one big Union scheme, stat"" ' ,T .Ve can and will own work«Vh.--. -adds that is not aimed at established trade, but a class union so that time they will secure the ownership of all industries.