GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 April 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AIR SERVICE AND PRIVATE enterprise.

Received April 19, 9.15 a.m

LONDON, April 17,

The Air Ministry announces that the Government, in early stages, will permit private enterprise to opeiatc on the easier of the great air routes, and state they are only' touching the more difficult. Nothing has been decided regarding the Cairo-India route, where strategic considerations exist.

RAILWAYMEN AND TRANSPORTERS’ STRIKE.

TROUBLE SPREADING THROUGH

IRELAND.

Received April 19, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, April 11

A strike of railwaymen and all other transport workers has brought to a standstill all business at Limerick. The unrest threatens to spread throughout the south of Ireland. The strikers aver it is their intention to force an issue with the authorities over the question. A martial law order has been issued prohibiting travelling. No bread hag been baked and no milk sold, and provision dealers are closing. The food ,sii urntioti Is. serious’, Iho gas pnd electric workers have joined the strikers and candles arc the only means of electric lighting.

A “KEYSTONE” REVOLUTION

HOW IT WAS ENGINEERED

Received April 19, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, April 17,

The “Daily Chronicle!s Berlin correspondent states the whole of Bavaria, except Hof, is now in Hoffman's Government, whose troops arc standing on the Danube.

A tragic comedy was revealed at Munich, where the Government troops on Saturday brought about a. fall of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. It transpires the revolution was a put up job, engineered, by Bavarian and Prussian Conservatives, using sham Socialists and Communists as agents provokatenrs. The plotters aimed at causing a maximum confusion in Gcrmalriy with a view to making the fulfilment of peace conditions, especially financial, impossible. The primary motive of the Bavarians was to.separate from the rest of Germany, hoping for more favourable terms of peace. Hopeless internal differences, coupled with Hoffman's military coup, shattered the scheme, and plunged Bavaria into civil war. BRITISH LAND SCHEME. SETTLING SOLDIERS ON THE LAND. Received April 19, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, April 17. Mr BoScawcn, in the House of Commons, in moving the second reading of the Land Settlement Facilities B'ill, said it. fulfilled the pledge to provide land for ex-fighters. The Government would subsidise, £1 for £1 a man’s capital. The Government have bought about 20,000 .acres of small holdings. There would be three categories, varying from half an acre to fifty acres. First; Farm colonics, enabling the holder gradually to increase the size of the small seOf-supporting plot.

Second: Cottage holdings of three acres for men in employment on the land.

Third: Whole-time holder, with 30 to 30 acres, small mixed dairy farmers; and 5 to 11 acres of fruit or vegetable farms.

Applicants will be given an opportunity, with certain limitations, to purchase, after seven years, at their then value. Equal quantities will be open to women who had six months’ experience on the land.

Several Commoners appealed for permancy of tenure to war-time allotment holders, who had grown vegetables on thousands of acres in park and waste lands.

Mr Newton Moore urged the establishment of an agricultural bank, which was more helpful to new settlers than local banks. The Government should advise men who desire to take up land in the Dominions, where large areas are available. The Bill -was read a second time.

SPORTING. Co) AUCKLAND RACES. AUCKLAND, this day. The A.R.C. Autnmu meeting began in showery weather, but a large attendance. President's Handicap.—Mangamahoe 1, 11 Talk 2, Lady Energy 3. Scrathed: Killard and Corregidor. Won by half a headL Great Northern Star Lady 1, Afterglow 2, Love Match 3. Scratched: Rebekah and Merry Bruce > Won by two and a half lengths.

SMUTS’ CONCILIATORY MISSION.

NEW SAXON SOVIET

REPTTSTnC

Received noon

LONDON, April 14

Hungarian wireless: Belakun, interviewed, said negotiations with Smuts were most cordial. There was every

reason to hope the Entente docs not contemplate attacking the Hungarian Republic. Smuts sympathetically viewed the conference representing the States formerly included in AustroHungary at Prague and Vienna for the purpose of considering the boundaries and economic relations.

AMSTERDAM, April .14

Sparticist soldiers at Dresden occupied the Kommandatur’s military headquarters of the loyal Jaegers Guard, and other public buildings. BERLIN - , April 14. It is expected a Saxon Soviet republic will be proclaimed at Leipzig forthwith. EGYYPTIAN RIOTS, EGYPT AIN WOMEN TAKE PART. FURTHER SERIOUS RIOTING. CAIRO, April 14. One of the most striking features of tlic demonstrations was the participation of many Egyptian women. A most unusual incident was a harem lady addressing a large gathering outside the Sultan’s palace. No on e anticipated that the harem ladies would bo drawn into the arena of politics. Armenians’ houses were systematically searched out by the mob and attacked. The Armenians were terrorised and all have now been placed under military protection. Thirteen Nationalist leaders arc being sent to Marseilles. It is hoped their departure wilt help to calm the people’s passions. A mob at Cairo killed five British soldiers, including two unarmed Indians. At Alexandria a mob attacked the troops, who fired, killing seventeen and wounding many. Order was finally restored.

Four hundred arrests were made at Assiout, in connection with the recent riots and plundering.

TROOPS DESPATCHED FROM ENGLAND.

LONDON. April .10

Extra troops have been despatched to Egypt, where the situation is more serious owing to the revolutionary conditions becoming worse in Turkey. Now Armenian massacres are feared.

GENERAL ALLEN BY ’S TACT

CAIRO, April 13

General AEenby is handling; the situation with such tact that a recrudence of the serious trouble is unlikely. The murder of five British soldiers on Thursday greatly affected the troops, but they continue to show admirable restraint. The economic situation in the provinces is acute, but is generally calm. FRENZIED DEMONSTR A TORS. MILITARY FIRE ON THE MOB'. LONDON. April 14. The ‘‘Sunday Express’s” Cairo correspondent states: Coptic priests participated in freizied demonstrations, proving that the disturbances are national, not religious. All religious differences were forgotten. There wore many processions of natives shrieking: ‘‘Long live Liberty,” ‘‘Long Live Egypt. ’ ’ Other reports from Cairo emphasise the seriousness of the rioting, in which 58 were killed. The mob’s excesses necessitated military firing. The outbreaks were sometimes anti-British, but mostly were against Armenians.

0 SPAIN'S LITTLE WAR. ARABS WIPE OUT SPANISH FORCE Received April 19, noon. TANGIERS, April U. ' Sharp fighting has taken place at Tctuan between Spaniards and Raisuli's bands. The Spaniards were surrounded and wiped out; fourteen officers and 300 native Spanish soldiers were killed and wounded. The Spaniards fell back on Tetuan. HOUSES FOR WORKERS. 300,000 TO BE BUILT. Received April 19, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, April 14. In the House of Commons, discussing the resolution authorising the housing and town-planning expenditure, Dr. Addison said he expected 100,000 houses would be built by 1919 autJ 200,000 each in 1920 and 1921, approximately at £SOO or £6OO apiece, aggregating £126,000,000, which the Govern- j inc-nt wouQd assist local authorities to I i'ttl& c "