GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 29 August 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO. FIGHTING CONTINUES. Received 8.30 am. LONDON, Aug.’ 28. A serious situation exists in Montenegro, where the whole country is in a state of revolution. Fighting is proceeding everywhere, and the Serbians are endeavouring to suppress the outbreak by the use of strong measures, but without much success. The Serbians are being reinforced, but their policy tend to influence national feeling, causing bitter hatred against themselves. ALLIED SUPPLIES TO ROUMANIA STOPPED. Received 8.55 a.rn. PARIS, Aug. 28. Eoumania has not yet replied to the Supreme Council’s note. The despatch of foodstuffs has now stopped. MUNITION BARGE EXPLODES. Received 8.55 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 28. An ammunition barge alongside the British monitor Glowworm, at Archangel, erploded, 60 being killed and missing.

AERIAL POST TO COLOGNE.

Received 9.25 a.m. LONDON, Aug. 28,

Two squadrons of the air force engaged for mail service for the iarmy of occupation, carried a weekly mail to Cologne, of 70901bs of letters and postal packets, the journey occupying 200 minutes.

BOLSHEVIK MANIFESTO TO , ' CHINA. Received 8.5 sa.m.

LONDON, Aug_ 28. Tho Bolsheviks are "hoping to enter into official relationship with China, and spread Bolshevism in the Far East. They wirelessed a manifesto in Chinese, offering to renounce the B'oxcr indemnities, and protect Chinese and other Eastern peoples against foreign yoke. The manifesto says a Red Army, which is China ’s sole ally, is marching eastward to liberate Siberia from the bandit Ivoltchak aiicT Ei Japanese allies. The manifesto invited China to send representatives to meet the advancing army.

ARAB REFORMER. CONVERTS BY SWORD. LONDON, Aug. 13. The Times gives details of obscure hostilities in Arabia between King Hussein and the Emir Ibn Saul respecting tbe ownership of the Khurma district. The righting is chiefly remarkable for the fanatical zeal and the success attending the efforts of Hussein's son, who is heading a sweeping reform movement. His tenets indue one wife, no drinking, and no smoking. His sole aims are constant prayer and the seeking of converts to the new Mahometanism by fire and sword. He endeavours to kill all heretics and infidels. THE PRUNING KNIFE. CONSTERNATION AT WHITEHALL. LODON, Aug. 28. Mr Lloyd George's ultimatum has caused consternation at Whitehall.' dismissals of so-called limpets have begun at'the War Office and Admiralty. Many more will receive notice on September Ist.

A LETTER BY MR LLOYD GEORGE.

LONDON, Aug. 28

j Mr Lloyd George in a letter to a 1 member of the House of Commons, I vigorously protests against charges of [extravagant finance and faulty admini istration, involving the loss of Government prestige. “It cannot be too strongly emphasised,” he writes, “that the primary duty of controlling departmental expenditure rests with Ministers, not the Treasury. The only way of ensuring Ministers,’ cooperative Treasury control lies in the re-establishment of collective respon sibility which the abolition of Cabinet Governments seems to have entirely destroyed.

ANTI-WASTE CAMPAIGN. LONDON, Aug. 2S. Newspapers continue the anfi-wuste campaign. They have unearthed & new example in Poole harbour, where against expert advice, a quarter of a million wa s expended during 19J 8 in order to provide an alternative pprt for cross-Channel traffic. It was ?ub sequently discovered that shipping was unable to cross the harbour during gales. The work was abandoned and the harbour not used. It is also pointed out that scores of good engines and hundreds of waggons are idle at the Leeds depot. A vast quantity of army air fore? stores arc rusting at a derelict depot at Didcot, which covers eight square miles.

Thousand-:- of ambulance waggons, water carts, '’arriages and liiiibbers are axle deep in mud and millions of wash leather gloves have been tied in Mi miles and u j «d as footballs.

BRITAIN'S COMMERCIAL PERIL. LONDON, Aug. 27. Sir Auckland Geddes, interviewed, said: Our first and greatest danger lies in the decline of the coal output, which j s necessary to secure the restoration of Europe. British trade cannot recover unless Europe recovers despite the fact that Europe is now the only market for British manuttwiturers\ Employers and workers must appreciate the essential fact that Britain's unsatisfactory economic position can be alleviated only by greater production We should aim at exporting a hundred millions sterling worth monthly.