GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 September 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

COTTON SPINNERS’ STRIKE. MR. LLOYD GEORGE’S APPEAL. LONDON, Sept 17. Mr. Lloyd George has written to the Amalgamated Association of Operative Cotton Spinners emphasising the seriousness of any strike, whicn would increase the task of the 'brave men fighting the enemy. He asks the cotton spinners to return to work and leave of matters in dispute to the Government, after inquiry by a tribunal which the Government will at once appoint. THE FRENCH PREMIER SPEAKS. THE FORTUNES OF WAR HAYE CHANGED. GERMANY MUST ATONE FOR ABOMINABLE CRIMES. Received 10.5 a.m. PARIS, Sept 18. M. Clemenceau, in the Senate, said: The Government desired to honour the splendid soldiers of the Entente, by whose efforts we will be freed from the subjugation of barbarism. For half a century peaceful France has not known a half day without threat of war. Those days have been passed in' slow suffering. The frightened Germans now understood the sort of men they have, to face. The world has witnessed the atrocities of the German soldier, and won’t forget them. There will be no victory unless the criminals pay fully for their terrible crimes. The account will be presented and paid. After four years of thankless war the fortunes are changed, and the Kaiser’s armies are retiring before 'the free, enlightened peoples of ,the world. France is looking for peace, but it must be one which gives justice to the survivors of the abominable past. . ,

REPINGTON ADVISES THE CABINET HOW TO CONDUCT THE WAR. Received 9.35 a.m. LONDON, Sept 18. Colonel Repington, who has been visiting the, British front, warns the Cabinet against relying on artillery, aviators, and tanks. Those auxiliary services are wonderful, but it is the infantry which storms and holds position?;. It is essential that drafts should be received to enable the infantry to be properly rested and trained. It is not tanks that won the battle of August Bth, it Avas the grants Dominion infantry, Avhich' attacked ■with the firm intention of succeeding. No tanks shone in the supremely Avonderful adventure of the Australians in their night surprise of Mont St. Quentin. The way to ruin infantry is to teach them to wait for someone else to do their job. The way to ruin ■ the, army is Tor a badly-advised Government not to keep the infantry units up to strength.

'•"M.P. SILLED IN ACTION. LONDON September 17. Lord Thyune, a member of the- House of Commons, was killed in action. Lord Alexander George Thynne, was born in 1873, and was educated at Eton and Oxford. He had been M.P. for Bath since 1910. Tic served in South Africa, and accompanied the Somaliland Field Force as Reuter’s special correspondent.

INTER-ALLIED LABOUR CONFERENCE. THE OPENING SESSION. LONDON, September 17. The Inter-Allied Labour Conference has opened in Westminister Hall. Delegates from France, Belgium, Britain, America, Italy, Greece and Serbia are attending. Mr Stuart Banning, the new chairman of the Trades Union Congress, in his opening address, said their object was to discover a common policy regarding peace. They were not there to advocate peace at any price, nor representing defeatists. The British war aims made it clear that reparation for the damage done in Northern France and Belgium and the evacuation of those countries, were the first essentials to peace such as labour prescribed. The Conference elected Mr Henderson chairman.

THE DATE SIR GEO. REID. LONDON, September 17. There was an impressive service at St. Columba’s Church, Wallington, in connection with the burial of Sir George. A notable gathering included representatives of Royalty, Allied embassies and New Zealand. Chaplain Fleming delivered a eulogium on the deceased statesmen, - who, he said, was one, of the Empire ’s great men. The body was subsequently interred at Putney.