GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 December 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

A JUST PEACE. GUILTY RULERS MUST BE i PUNISHED. I LONDON, December 9. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at the Queen’s Hall, emphasised that peace must be a just peace. War must be made more difficult, if not impossible. Hence, he was an ardent believer in a League of Nations. Those who provoked war must pay the penalty. The more exalted ones, were the most responible. Democracy must so fashion, its judgment- that . kings, emperors, crown princes and such-like will know I in future that if they bring upon the ! earth wretchedness of this kind, the j penalty will inevitably fall on their own heads. The Peace Conference must abolish the gigantic conscript armies which bad been the means of tempting rulers to make war. GERMAN PROPAGANDA IN U.S. WASHINGTON, Dec 9. Bcilski stated in the Senate that 1 German propaganda sought to create a negro rising in the Southern States, spreading stories that they were the rightful owners of the land instead of the white people. AMERICAN TRADE WITH GERMANY. WASHINGTON, December 9 At Baltimore, Senator Clarke, Speaker of Congress, said that the United States at the end of the war, would have -a huge mercantile marine. What was she going to do with it? Before the war Germany was the next best customer of the United States to Britain. If Germany shut out raw materials, the United States trade .would suffer. However, he hoped U.S. would find new fields in South and Central America. Senator Clarke emphatically declared that President Wilson would insist on freedom of the seas -at the Paris Conference. GERMAN DESTRUCTION. LONDON, December 9. The Germans destroyed 1731 bridges, 337 stations, and whole telegraphic -and telephonic lines were demolished ■in six-mile stretches. Time mines are still exploding. GERMAN SAVAGERY. FRENCH PRISONERS SHOT. BERNE, Dec 9. A report from the delegates at the Spanish Embassy states that nine French prisoners at Landcnsalz camp were shot at point blank and killed by Germans. Fifteen others were wounded. The report adds: The prisoners’ behaviour in nowise justified this savagery.

THE COTTON STRIKE. .. LONDON, Dec 9. The cotton strike is in full operation. One hundred thousand spinners and fifty million spindles are idle. As stocks of yarn are low, weaving sheds must soon close, rendering idle an additional 200,000 workers, THE PEACE CONFERENCE. NEW YORK, Dec 9. The United Press’s Paris correspondent states that the Peace Conference is expected to begin on January 3rd.