Spartacusers' Revolt Fails

Taihape Daily Times, 11 January 1919, Page 5

Spartacusers' Revolt Fails

FIGHTING II BERLIN. GOVERNMENT WINS THE DAY. Prince Max as Apologist For Ex-Kaiser William- \ NEW BRITISH CABINET.

J ITALIAN ASPIRATIONS IN ADRIATIC.

" WILL. HAVE WILSON'S SUPPOET.

Received 8.50 a.m

NEW YORK, January S Mr. David Laurence, the New York Evening Post's Paris correspondent states it would not be surprising to find President Wilson sympathising with Italian aspirations in the Adriatic, because there is evidence of a liberalism growing in Italy, and there is less danger of the misuse of power than the Americans have been led to believe.

PEEDING DEVASTATED EUROPE. THE AMOUNT OP FOOD REQUIRED. Received 8.50 a.m. NEW YORK, January 8. Chicago reports the visible wheat and flour supplies east of the Rockies is 125,880,000 bushels. Mr Hoover states 1,400,000 tons of food will be needed from the United States to save Europe from an early famine. The cost of delivery will be 3%000,000 dollars.

LATE COLONEL ROOSEVELT'S OBSEQUIES. AN IMPRESSIVE CEREMONY. Received 8.50a.m. NEW YORK. January S. -'Messrs. Taft and Hughes were prominent among the mourners at the Jlate Colonel Roosevelt's funeral. Mr Taft was in tears during the committal servjee, and ex-speaker Joseph Cannon was visibly affected. The streets of the village were crowded ■with silent mourners. The Colonel's favourite hymnn. '' How • firm a {Foundation." was recited by the Tector. The only flowers .at the grave were those from his ex-Rough Rider comrades in the Spanish-Ame-rican war. but hundreds of wreaths filled the church. Mr Wilson issued a proclamation stating that Mr Roosevelt, when President, displayed administrative powers of a high order, and he distinguished himself in the Spanish war. In private life his character was one of simplicity and virtue.

PRINCE MAX INTERVIEWED APOLOGIST FOR EX-KAISER. FORTUNE WAS AGAINST WILHELM V ~~~ Received 9.0 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 10. Prince Max. in an iuterview with the "National New Badenbaden," complained bitterly of the maintenance of the blockade and the Entente's insisting on the surrender of railway ma. jfcerial, prevetoting the transport of food tetuffs at present in Germany. Prince Max shouted: "Why doesn't the Entente lift the curtain somewhat and show her intentions? The uncertainty regarding the future makes the people lialf mad, and may drive them to despair." He asserted that the ex-Kaiser did not desire, and up to the last moment tried to prevent war. Max expressed the greatest pity for the exKaiser, and added that from many episodes in the ex-Kaiser's life it was vident hj was predestined to a tragic end. F«tune was not with him, but ihis inteßpns, were honest. He is described Bt as being honest and well disposed.! X I &&B, ASQTJITH NOT SEEKING ' RE-ELECTION. j

LONDON, January 4. The Daily Express states that Mr Asquith has decided not to seek reelection. He will lead the party from ouside.

NEW BRITISH CABINET. Received noon. LONOON, January 10. The following are members of the, new Ministry:— Mr. J. I. Macpherson, Secretary for Ireland. Mr Edward Shortt,. Home Service. Mr Walter Long, Admiralty. Lord Milner, Secretary of State for the Colonies. W. L. C. Churchill, Secretary of State for War. F. E. Smith, Lord Chancellor. Austen Chamberlain, Chancellor of Exchequer Eric Geddes, Minister for Transport Auckland Geddes, Minister of Reconstruction. J. E. B. Seely, Minister for Air. C. Addison, Minister for Local Government. G. Stewart, Attorney-General B'onar Law and George Barnes, without portfolios.

THE BATTLE OF AMIENS. BRITISH OVERCOME GRE.4T ODDS. LONDON, January 9. Sir Douglas Baig in his despatch referring to the battle of Amiens on August Sth states: Twenty-three German divisions were heavily defeated by thirteen British infantry and three cavalry divisions, supported by 400 tanks. SIR DOUGLAS HAIG. A FIXE CHAEACTER LONDON, January 8 The Daily News reasserts that Sir Douglas Haig refuses to accept further honours until the Government redresses certain grievances in connection with discharged officers, and the treatment of slain officers' klependants. The principal allegation is failure to recognise hardship.

SHIPPING NEWS. Received noon. LONDON, January 9. The steamer Parramatta lias arrived at Ferol. The report of hoi- disablement was unfounded. NEW YORK, January 10. The steamer Northumbria has been mined, and most of the crew lost|. BRITAIN'S SILENT NAVY. WHAT MINE LAYERS HAVE BEEN DOING. " MOPPING UP U-BOATS. Received 11.15 aTm; — LONDON, Dec. 9. Sir Eric Geddes, in a speech to wounded soldiers at Oatland Park, Surrey, described the men on the Twentieth Mine Laying Flotilla as among the best and pluckiest in the Navy. They proceeded nightly through German minefields for thirty miles off Heligoland to discover the channels through which raiders could pass, .and lay mines across. Sir Eric Geddes added that upwards of one hundred German boats in the first half-year of 1918 were caught in these mine traps. Six German outpost boats leaving the Bight on one occasion noticed four of the flotilla entering, who by a subterfuge got inside and laid mines, and on the way hime mopped up all the six and the crews? were prisonered. Barrage mines across the Channel below Ostend trapped seventeen U-boats in one month..