GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 February 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

LABOUR’S PRINCIPLES. FOR INCLUSION IN TREATY. LONDON, February 10. The Commission on International Lahour Legislation lias received from the American delegates a series of fundamental principles, which, they urge should be included in the Peace Treaty These declare that no person should be forced under a sovereignty under which he does not wish to live; that it should be recognised that Labour, being human, is not a commodity or an article of commerce; that the right of free association, free assemblage, free speech, and a free Press should not be denied or abridged, and that merchant seamen be guaranteed the right to leave vessels when the same are safe in harbours and the right of refusal to ship commodities in whose production children under sixteen have been engaged. An eight-flour day, except in cases of extraordinary emergency, wages to be commensurate with a proper standard of life together with equal pay for men and women for equal work. GERMANY'S WAR PURPOSE. DESTRUCTION OF FRANCE. PARIS, February 10. M. Clcmencoau told an American interviewer that while the war was won, it was more accurate to say that the world was not yet out of the storm. Although Germany was beaten, Russia remained, from which Germany could draw strength. There was a certain danger of re-opening the military debate, except for the Allies’ assurance that whenever France or other nations were attacked the whole world would rush to vindicate liberty.- Germany’s purposes throughout the war had been to destroy the economic life' of France. This was not' frightfulness, but it accounted for the devastation wrought in the northern departments, Germany was still aTble to use her fac■tories, while one-third of those of France were useless. CABLE BREVITIES, Received 8.55 a.m LONDON, February 10. Viscount Grey has lost his eyesight entirely, and is learning the Braiilie system. Mr. T. Cook, who is in London on important naval business, including the return of the fleet to Australia, has refused the offer of a position on the Polish Commission,

Sir J. G. Ward is still in Loudon, suffering from a cold.

Lieutenant Alexander Craig, an Aucklander, has been killed mountaineering on Ben Nevis. -

PALESTINE FOR THE JEWS.

Receievd 8.55 a.m

NEW YORK, February 10,

Rabbi Stephen Wise, the American Zionist leader, who presented the case at the Paris Conference, in a speech ■ said the Peace Conference will gite Britain the mandate in Palestine on behalf of the Jews of the world. Britain is unwilling to underfake additional territorial obligations, but tts i deeply concerned in the welfare "of the Jews. t GERMANY THREATS NETT WITH BANKRUPTCY. | MARTIAL LAW AT KIEL. ! Received 10.10 a.m. j COPENHAGEN, ePbruary 11. The German Finance Minister fat Weimar hinted that Germany is threatened with national bankruptcy. Every body might possibly be compelled to hand over their whole income except the smallest allowances. Martial law has been proclaimed at Kiel owing to Spartacus disorders. TO ESTRANGE BRITAIN AND AMERICA. SINN-FEIN-GERMAN PROPAGANDA Received 10.10 a.m. WASHINGTON. February 10. One of a group of prominent Senators stated that a cleverly organised anti-British propaganda was being furthered in America in order to estrange England and the United States. Senator King declared the propaganda had a German and Sinn Fein Origin.

Senator Wadsworth advocated that active steps should be taken to forestall the propagandists, DERNBERG’S PROTEST. Received 10..T0 a.m. PARIS, February 10. Herr Dernb n rg interviewed protested against the internationalisation of the colonies. Germany would defend her rights and decline responsibility for a peace mads without her.