GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 June 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

GROWING ‘UNREST IN FRANCE. I PARIS UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS} * STOPPED. ! PARIS, June 8. General labour unrest in Fna.-nee is growing. There are half a million strikers in the country, of Whom 200,000 are metal workers in the Paris region. The underground railways of Paris are closed. mews IN wmnrrne. 1 MOB ATTACKS VETERANS. VANCOUVER, June 11. A serious riot occurred in Winnipeg owing to the general strike. A mob la-ttacked veterans who were acting as special police. One man-—winne.r of the Victoria Cross in the war—was seriously injured. . U'.S. NATIONAL DEBT. NEW YORK, June 12. The New York Times’ Washington correspondent states that. the public debt of the United States on 31st May reached more than 25,921,000,000 dollars. SERIOUS SHIPPING HOLD-UP. CANADIAN REPATRIATION DELAYED. LONDON, June 12. All North Atlantic liners engaged in I'epatriating Canadian troops rare held up in the Mersey owing to the owners re-fusing Overtime to the stewards at--tending ships’ officers in Canadian and American ports. SERIOUS RIOTS AT'MALTA. LONDON, June 12. General Plumer has been sworn in as governor of Malta, where serious riots are reported, Owing to ‘the high food prices and unemployment. Troops. charged an unarmed mob, using bayonets and firing ‘several shots-. The rioters destnoyed the I\lalba: _ Daily 'Chronicle’s Ofiiees. Marines were land--ed to check the looting, and it. is believed Order has been restored. '

THE EX-KAISER’S YACHT “‘- . FOR .SALE. « - Received 10.10 a.m. AMSTERDAM June 12 The ex-Kaiser-‘s yacht Meteor, which is interned in Scandinavian waters, is advertised for sale at half a million marks. YILDIZ KIOSK DESTROYED_ I Received 10.10 a.m. CONSTANTINOPLE, June 12. The Yildiz Kiosk has been destroyed. AUSTRIAN POSITION AVVEAKENED. COMMUNISTS STRENGTHENED. I DENIKEN ADVANCES Received 9.5 a.m. ~ LONDON, June 11. The military disasters greatly weakened the Austrian Government. Public opinion is much more communistic. A revolution is planned for June 15, which is looking to Hungary for aid. The Hungarian‘ Government, on the contrary, has been greatly strengthened by its sueecss against the Czechs, whole only powder factory at Press‘burg is threatened. The situations is extremely grave, as the Hungarians have cut off the Czechs {F63I the Roumanians,

Denikin penetrated two hundred miles into the heart of the Don——Donith region, taking 15,000 prisoners, and is now nearing the Bolshevist centre at Tsaritzin_ The Bolsheviks claim to have captured Ufa after a sanguinary three days’ battle. ’ LONDON, June 12 It is: reported to be likely that a Communistic Government will be established in Austria shortly. The Esthoniang are retreating, abandoning Wendin, north-west of Riga. BOLSHEVISM IN AFGHANISTAN. NO RISING OF TRIBES EXPECTED. Received 9.5 a_m. _ _ LONDON, June 12. The Australian Press Association learns no reply tie the armistice terms has been received from the Amir, who is still in close relationship with Russian Bolsheviks. There has been no military change and no organised rising of the tribes, which is not expected. The Bolshevik influence in Afghanistan is more serious owing to the 801shevikv’s“advance T‘r'ans—Caspia, which constitutes the worst feature of the Afghan situa.tion.'