GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 June 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

HUN DEMONSTRATION.

AGAINST ALLIED OFFICERS. Received June 19, 9.5 a.m. COPENHAGEN, June 18. l Crowds at Frankfort demonstrated outside the Allied ofiieers’ residence, and a shot was fired, Tipon which the German Government -troops m'achinegunned the mob, which fled. . LABOUR AND CONSORIPTION. Received June 19, 9.5 (1.111. LONDON, June 18. The National Union of R-.a.ilwaymen’s Conference instructed the executive to take any action necessary, jointly with the Triple Alliance to -secure the overthrow !Of conscription. THE CANADIANS RIOT. Received June 19, 9.5 a.m. LONDON, June 18. Canadian soldiers, in rescuing their comrades, wrecked the Epsom police station. The police sergeant was killed. UN EWLOYED DONATIONS DECREASING. Received June 19, 8.40 am. LONDON, June 18. The persons drawing weekly unemployment donations decreased by 322,117 betxveen the end of April and the end of May. Of the number quoted 78 per cent were women. BRITISH GEN .'E‘.RAL’S VINDICATION ‘ THE BATTLE FOR HIGHWOOD. Receivea June 19, 8.50 am. 4 A LONDON, ‘June 8. i General Sir Charles Barter, speaking at a dinner to the Forty-Seventh Division, complained that he was dismissed from his command of the division at an llour’s notice, when the division had brilliantly captured Hi-ghwood during the battle of the Somme in 1916. Another division had failed to capture this wood. His dismissal was based on the statement that “he Wantonly wasted men.’ This was a cruel and unjust ae'cus-ation. Although his requests for investigation had been refused, ‘he was detr-rmfned to publicly vindicate his military career.

BRITISH MINISTRY o}?‘ FOOD.

KEEPING DOVVN PRICES. A Received June 19, 8.50 am. LONDON, June 14. The Ministry of Food ’s balance-sheet for the year ending 31st March. 1918, shows 9. total turnover, excluding wheat and sugar, of £46,278,571; oxpenses of administration. £1,456,664; net profit, £133,363. The Food Control'ler’s first trading transaction was the purchase of 5000 tons of Australian butter in -May, 1917, for £924,878. By the middle of 1918, the Government was buying and selling 85 per cent of the country’s food, and prices were fixed for '94 per cent. of foodstuffs. The prices paid by consumers include cost and administration, but the prices have been considerablylowerethan any other country. - TI-IE STRIKE" AT VA_NCOU"V’.BR. I THE MAKURA HELD UP. l . __ VANCOUVER. June 17. The crew of the Makura, owing to a strike of Vancouver longshoremen and teanisters, refused to take on the ship ’s stores, and were fined two days’ pay. The .\lakura.’s cargo is not yet unloaded. One hundred and fifty passengers are aboard awaiting the ship’s sailing. H ' IRISH AFFAIRS. NOTORIOUS COUNTESS SENTENCED. LONDON, June 1 . Countess Markicviez has been sentenced to four -months’ at Dublin for inciting traders to boycott the police. LONDON POLICE TROUBLE. LONDON, June 17. A conference of the R-ailwa.ymcn’s Union adopted. a resolution protesting against the Governnlcnt’s refusal to recognise the Police Union. and urging the workers trf support the police. INTER-STATE CONFERENCE. _ SYDNEY, June 18. The Inter-State Labour Conference has opened. 3I - I