GENERAL CABLES.
ENGLAND’S CROP AREA.
LONDON, August 28
The Board of Agriculture reports that the arable area in England is now 12,400,000 acres, an increase of 1,150,000 acres compared with 1917, and a record for twenty years. The wheat acreage increased by 638,000 acres, oats by 23 per cent, and potatoes by 25 per cent.
AIR MINISTER APPOINTED. A SIBERIAN SURPRISE. Received 9.15 a.m. WASHINGTON, August 28. War Secretary Baker has announced that Mr. John Ryan has been iappointed Assistant Secretary for War, . with responsibility for the Army Air Service. This is practically tantamount to beng appointed Air Minister. Yladivostock news states that General Ploshkoff, )acting oh behalf of Harvath, the Anti-Bolshevik leader, assumed the control of Russian military forces in the Far East by a coup d’etat. The Siberian Government was nonplussed at the suddenness of the movement 'and. was unable to organise opposition.
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Taihape Daily Times, 30 August 1918, Page 5
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