CABLE BREVITIES.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 October 1919, Page 6

CABLE BREVITIES.

PARIS, Oct. 4

M. Clemenceau has written to Lloyd eGorge and Colonel House urging the first meeting of the League of Nations be held _at ‘Washington with Mr Wilson as president in November. The Parisian theatre strike has ended,.and the strikers’ claims grante~l except employment to Unionists only. ~

WARSAW’, Oct. 4

It is reported that Brigadier Jadi—vin, of the American army, who, accompanied Senator Morgenthals’ mi.<:~ .sion t 6 Poland, hzié ‘been captured and executed by the Bolsheviks while attr—mpting to motor to Kieff. It is fearCd the 81-itisher, Lieut. Bowe, accompanying him,'shared the same fate.

CALCUTTA. Oct_.4. The cyclone in Eastern Bengal caused widespread havoc and the j_ute industry is at a. standstill. Thousafids of small craft were sank, and many lives lost. ‘Thousands of people are homeless.