GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 24 April 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

HOLLAND IS ANGRY.

OFFERS TO NEGOTIATE WITH BELGIUM REJECTED.

BRUSSELS, April 19.

A prominent personality in the official world said to-day: "In Paris our moderate claims are meeting with the unanimous sympathy of the Allies, -who would seem to have decided on applying towards us the formula of restitution, reparation, and guarantees. In 1539 the Conference of London deprived us of Limburg and Luxemburg, and, while refusing to cede us the left bank of the Scheldt, assigned to us frontiers which were not. defensible, and in exchange therefore imposed on us a neutrality guaranteed by the Powers. The treaty of 1839 has beCom • inoperative in consequence of the bc-tiayal on the part of two of its signatories, Prussia and Austria. Therefore this treaty must be revised, and the Belgian terriforkd statute should be modified. Holland is furious because Belgium declines to negotiate with her directly and refers her to the Allies." f INDIAN RIOTS. MILITARY CALLED OUT. TRAIN AND STATION WRECKED LONDON, April 22. Soldiers awaiting embarkation to England, including those from Mesopotamia, will remain in India in view of the present situation. Advices from Calcutta state that passive resistance demonstrations by Marwaris culminated in serious rioting in the Indian quarter. Several Europeans were assaulted, and officers were injured. The military were called out and fired on the mob, causing a dozen casualties before order was restored.

A mob at Gurgwala, in the Punjab attacked a train and wrecked the station. Aeroplanes bombed the crowds. The unrest continues.

At Lahore rioters, after killing five Europeans and 'looting the banks, burnt, the buildings. The Mission Church depot was also destroyed. Strong military ' forces quelled the riots.

THE INDIAN UPHEAVAL

LATEST REPORT

LONDON. April 20.

The Press Bureau has issued the Viceroy's report, stating that in the Punjab additional troops arc arriving at Lahore and are being distributed throughout the province. Attempted outrages have been suppressed. Communal responsibilities of villages for the protection of railways is being enforced. There were fifteen casualties in Friday's firing in Delhi, one being killed.

North-west frontier demonstrations proved a fiasco. Peshawar shopkeepers refused to close their strops.

There have been no further disturbances in Bombay, U-BOATS SUNK. LONDON, April 22. While eight German submarines were being towed from England to Cherboug seven were lost in a storm. TROOP TRAINS COLLIDE. EIGHTY LIVES LOST. LONDON, April 22. A collision occurred between American and French troop trains in the Sarthe Department. Fifty-four French I twenty-six American soldiers were I killed, and seventy injured. GERMANY'S WAR CRIMES, THE COMMISSION'S REPORT. j PARIS, April 22. i The Punishment for Crimes Commisi i'sion's report covers sixty-nine pages. | It has been circulated among the-TJon-ference delegates. In consequence of many 'German Hfficors serving .Wjth th e Bolshevik army, a clause will be inserted in the military terms of the peace treaty forbidding German military missions aboard for the purpose of training. THE EGYPTIAN DISTURBANCE CAIRO, April 19. Owing to vitriol outrages during the riots, a military proclamation fixes the death penalty for throwing vitriol or other corrosive acids and fifteen years' imprisonment "on anyone found in possession of such acids. An unsatfsfacTory feature of the present situation in Egypt is the intimidation of Government servants, who {are being frightened from work.

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BELAKUN OVERTHROWN. Received April. 24, noon. PARIS,"ApriI 23. Information from various sources states that Belakun has been overthrown. Savasil, leader of tlie movement ag'ainst Belakun, includes among his supporters peasantry and the bourgeoisie. jNEW GERMAN pIINISTER. Received April 24, noon. PARIS, April 23. It is officially intimated that Herr Dernberg has been appointed German Finance Minister. STRIKE IN SPAIN. MADRID. April 20. A general strike of telegraphists, telephonists and postal employees has disorganised communications throughout the country. The strikers demand the resignation of Minister Laeierva. NOTED AIRMEN KILLED. PARIS, April 22. It is re ported that the airman Vedrines, while flying at Rome, fell and was killed. STRANDED NEW ZEALANDERS SYDNEY, April 22. New Zealanders stranded hero owing to the shipping restrictions are indignant at their treatment. They have cabled to the Mayor of Wellington asking for financial assistance" on behalf of women and children, COAL MINERS STRIKE. SYDNEY, April 22. The coal miners at Sessnock struck as a protest against a number of em--1 ployees coming from influenza infected towns.

Although the miners are using the influenza as an excuse to cease work it is believed their action is -due to the State's intervention in the coal crisis. Most of the miss? in the Maitland and Newcastle district are idle It is expected that the southerns miners Will follow suit.