GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 May 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

FR/A.T3MURDER

UTTERLY INEXCUSABLE MISTAKE.

Received 9 20 a.n

BERLIN, May 3

Two members of the German Commission have published a declaration opposing the Commission's finding in the Fryatt case, and they describe the sentence as an utterly inexcusable mistake. -':*"

BRITISH POLITICALS IN EVIDENCE,

A LITTLE CHEAP SARCASM.

Received 8.50 a.m. LONDON, May 3

Mr. Simon, in a speech in London, said that preference proposals were so trumpery that it was difficult to raise serious opposition, hxrt Liberals must resist the formula as a real fiscal lesson of the war. It was their duty to adjust finance so as to prevent naiional bankruptcy, not to proceed with muddling nonsense about giving preference to New Zealand on musical boxes.

THE WOMAN MURDERER. FURTHER DISCOVERIES Received 8.50 a.m. PARIS, May 3. Further investigations of Landru's villa revealed more charred bones, including a spinal column and twenty teeth. Navvies digging in the garden, unearthed remains including another skull and more teeth, also safety pins, garter buckles, buttons and portions of corsets, indicating the victims were buried wearing their under-clothing. Bloodstained trousers, belonging to Landru .were found in a stable.

RUGBY FOOTBALL. WIN FOR NEW ZEALAND. Received 9.20 a.m. LONDON, May 3. In a rugby football match. Australians scored 9, Cornwall nil. New Zealanders 14; Devon nil. In Association games England 4; Scotland 3. AN AEROPLANE FATALITY, FLIGHT-COMMANDER KILLED. Received 9.20 a.m. LONDON. May-3. Flight-Commander Peter Legs, was testing an aeroplane at Fincbley when the machine caught fire at a great height. Legs jumped out and was killed. The machine fell on a houss .selling it on fire. TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT. AIR CONDITIONS IMPROVING. Received May S. .10.35 a.m. LONDON. May 5. Fogs and rainstorms in Newfoundland have subsided, and drying westerlies, accompanied by a rising barometer, promise an early start en the trans-Atlantic flight. United States' naval seaplanes are : shortly attempting a flight. They will j have the guidance of sixty destroyers. | showing searchlights every fifty miles. I

BRITISH SOLDIER SETTLEMENT.

OFFER FROM 147 LANDLORDS

Received May 8, 10.35 a,.m. LONDON. May 7.

One hundred and forty-seven landlords have, responded to the appeal to provide land for settlement, end for exsoldiers, offering lib sell thwty (?) aures. The Board of Agriculture is compulsorily acquiring an additional six thousand.

AERIAL SIDESLIPS. BRINGS DOWN AVIATION! CONTROLLER. Ecccived May S, 10.35 a..m. LONDON, May 5. Mr Sykes, Controller of General Civil who was summered urgently to Paris in connection with peace deliberations, wag proceeding thither by aeroplane, when Ids ma Vine crashed to the ground at Kenley, owing to side-slipping while descending. The pilot was killed, and Sykes was badly shaken and returned to London.

LORD FRENCH'S BOOK. STORIES OF THE WAR. Received May 8, .11.45 a.m. LONDON. May 5. The- Daily Telegraph is publishing extracts from Field-Marshal French's book of the war, telling the story of the retreat after the disastrous stand of the second army at Le Chateau. French writes: Although Joffre was anxious to take tlie offensive, I insisted upon the necessity of further retreat. At a discussion by commanders at the British headquarters Smith-Dorien opined the only course was to return to the base, re-embark, and try to land at some favourbale point, on the coast. I refused to listen to what was equivalent to counsel of dispair.

BELA KUN ESCAPES.

WITH QUANTITY OF LOOT.

Received May S, 11.45 a.m. LONDON, May 5,

Vienna has reported that Bela Kim and his confederates escaped, carrying a large quantity of loot. HINDENBURG- RETIRES. COPENHAGEN. May 5. Hindenburg has written Ebcrt resigning the generalissim'oship towing to his desire to retire into private Ife. Ebert has accepted the resgnation. THE IRISH PROBLEM. NEW YOEK, May (5. The World's Paris correspondent states President Wilson's assistance has been invoked to obtain safe conduct to Paris for Do Valera, Griffith, and Plunkett, in order to present the Irish cas e before the Peace Conference. Thf ViOiu-esDondeixt vas told that President Wilson was likely to heed the wishes of the Irish sympathisers.