GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 August 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH DOMINANT IN PERSIA. ~ Received .30 am._ ' . . LODNON, Aug. 15. . ..The Anglo—Pel-sian A agreement alias been. signed. As ‘a result British in-' fluence is’ dominantin Persiafi ‘ ; NEW" AU~STR‘IAN GOVERNMENT T ' ATRIAIL. ’ . Received 9_30 a.nl. PARIS, «Aug. 14. The Supreme Council has instructed the mission at Budapest to observe a guarded attitude. to‘“Archduk'e Joseph Government, the Supreme Council desiring to see the latter "in operation before its final decision is made. BALUCHIS ON WAR PATH. r "H Received 9 am. ' ' LONDON, Aug. 15_ Since peace was signed with Afghanistan the Baluehis raided a British post, inflicting casualties. The ‘tribes are still unsettled.

FORTY STANDARD SHIPS SOLD. .«RecoiVed 9.20 a.m.. LONDON, Aug_ 15. Lord Inchcapo has sold practically all the forty standard steamers (cabled on July 23rd), aggregfiting 343,751 tons, at about £28,000 per ton. Lord Inchcape made it a condition that the vessels are not to be resold outside the United Kiiigdom for four years. PUNISHMENT OF PROFITEERS. PARIS BOYCOTT HAS UNEX—PECTED RESULTS. PARIS Aug. 14;. Drastic action by lqagues of consumcrs is having unexpected serious results. Many rctaileis are sh-utting their ,<hODS and wagon—}oads of pcri.~hable goods have been returned to :11’rcady ‘congested depots.

N.Z_ TROOPS AT HOME. THE LATEST DETAILS. LONDON, Aug. 14. Fifty—eight thousand New Zeaiaiid troops have already left England -on their homeward journey. Forty-four hundred are still to ‘be I'opatl'iated, when-0.1;‘ 1100 are leaving; by September 14t‘~.1, and the balance before the end of October. About 1300 have taken their discharge in England on a guarantee that they would be found employment. A few enlisted for Russi.3.. which headquarters did not oncourage SENSATION IN THE SENATE. A STARTLING ALLEGA’I.‘ION. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. (Longaessman Heifbin created a sonsation by charging Republicans with ‘jslilg G9lim:an money to fight t’he Loagu».-. of Nations. He asserted that opposition to the League was largely from a district benefited by the manufacturc of munitions.

ALL YORKSHIRE COLLIERIES 10 RESUME . . LONDON, Aug. 15. All the Yorkshire collierics voted in favour of return to work. A 44-HOURS’ WEEK. LONDON, Aug. 14. A conference of representatives of 1,750,000 engineering workers agreed to‘ submit. the nlen’s demands for ‘a 44 hour week to a joint conrmittee of emp‘oycrs and employees, with can inde-pelld(-.111 chairman, the committee also to report on the economic eflE'ect of the Cl'l£ll]s:l.‘. ‘ -