GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 March 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

CHINESE RAILWAYS Received 9.20. NEW YORK, March 2l The New York Tinges' Pein correspondent reports that a Japanese correspondent says that Japanese official (disapproval over the contemplated intcrnatiomalisation of Chinese, railways is responsible for a plan aiming at the isolation of Japanese railway interests in China. It is expected tliai Shantung railway -with German interests in Tientsin and Pukow, will be considered as indemnity, and be awarded to Britain or France.

THE WOULD-BE .ASSASSIN

WOULD KILL ALL AUTHORITY

Received 10.5,

PARIS, March 21

Cottin, the man who attempted to assassinate M. Clemenceau, in a statement, said he was convinced anarchists were as ready to kill the Kaiser as Clemenceau; they are against an authority. Medical evidence shows that onw bullet is still lodged in Clemenccau'sj body. BRITISH FOOD TAX. Received 9.20 a.in. LONDON, March 21. The newspaper Nation announces that the Government has defined the tax on food, including foreign sugar, coffee, cocoa, raisins, and dried fruit. GERMAN SEAMEN OBDURATE. REFUSE DELIVERY OF SHIPS. Received 10.35 a.m. LONDON, March 21.

A Hamburg telegram states that a mass meeting of seamen refused to assist in the of German ships to the Allies on the ground that Germany bad not b'een guaranteed sufficient food.