General Cables.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 September 1918, Page 3

General Cables.

CHLORINE GAS FIEND. LONDON, September 16 Reuter’s correspondent at American headquarters states: The Americans captured in Thiaueourt Professor Otto Schmoerukase, exploiter of chlorine gas for military purposes, .who is reported to be developing some hew atrocity of kulture. SUBMARINE WARFARE. PORTUGUESE STEAMER TORPEDOED, OTTAWA, September 16. A crew of sixteen arrived at a Canadian Atlantic port. They were rescued in an open boat from a Portuguese steamer torpedoed off the coast five days previously. GREECE’S PART ATHENS, September 17 In the course of an interview, Michala Copoulos, the Greek Minister of Agriculture said that Greece had two hundred thousand soldiers under arms She could raise an additional 100,000 but was handicapped owing to the lack of shipping. They were immediately commencing to build shipyards. He was convinced that the Salonika front was far more important than is generally realised. There would soon be big developments there. SIBERIAN DEVELOPMENT. TOKIO, September 16. The organisation of a Russo-Japan-ese economic corporation for the commercial and industrial development of Siberia has been practically completed It has a capital of from 10 to 20 million roubles.