GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 8 October 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ITALY AND PEACE‘ TREATY. Received 8.55 21.111. PARIS, -Oct. 7. It is reported that Italy has ratified. the Peace Treaty. ITALY RATIFIES TREATY. Received 9.20 a.m_ P ARIS, Oct. 7. Italy by a decree has ratified the Peace Treaties with Germany and Austria. , BRITAIN SENDS ‘A WARNING NOTE_ ‘ ROME, Oct. 6. Newspapers give prominence to an official intimation from London predicting that Britain is sending to Italy a, Note of protest at the prolongation _of the illegal Fiune situation which Britain col:siJ-

ers may endanger Italy's position as a member of the League of Nations. Newspapers‘ declare that the Note will compel the Government to .‘hasten a solution. -

D’ANNUNZIO’S BOAST.

ROME, Oct. 6.

D’Annunzio considers it unlikely that the .Jugo—S-lavs concentrated at Buccari will Venture to nzmck. L’Annunzio has three Italian brigades, With. artillery, in readiness, in battle ‘positions. He declares that he could march" to Rome at the head of 600,000 soldiers-. He will do so when he feels disposed, but hehas important things in hand.

TRANSPORT ARAWA SAILED. Received 9.20 a.ln_ LONDON, Oct. 7. The Arawa has sailed with 57 New Zcaland officers and 545 men on board_ .....V..._..... _. NEW ‘IRISH BILL. ' -LONDON, Oct 7. The Irish Governinent Bill, /which will be a feature of the coming session, ‘has been drafted on the »lines'of Do~ 'nlinio‘n home rule.‘ There are two suggestions for safeguarding Ulster.

SAFEGUARDING ULSTER.

Received 8.55 ' a.nl.

LONDON, Oct. 7.

Two suggestions in the Irish Govcrmnent Bill for the safeguarding of Ulster are, Ist, county option. 2n<_i, exclusion of Ulster, which would have 419 own Chief ‘Secretary.

CHARGE AGAINST AMERICA. OF INHUMANITY TO PRISONERS OF WAR. Received 9.20 21.111. BERLIN, Oct. 7. The Government, in .a. verbal Nete to d'.Switzel‘la.nd, accuses the Americans. of inhuman treatment nf Grerul.lll prisoners of war. The }atter's {)ay‘\v-5; ‘.-30 centimes, and th-av were subjected t 3 dangerous labour, and if they refused were placed in isolated arrest fior six weeks on bread and water, and comphlinfs were prohibited.

STRIKES IN GERMANY. Received 9.20 am. BERLIN, Oct. 7. Forty-seven thousaxrd metal W»orkel's have struck. The strike is ext_c-nding to other industries, and all large works are involved. Sixty—scven thousand were locked out. The strikers urge :1 gnneral strike. b

VJHO STARTED THE WAR?

BERCHTOLD’S REJOINDER.

Received 9.20 a..m4

PARIS, Oct. 7.

Count Berehtold, replying to the Austrian Red Book allegations; declares in the Neue Freie Presse that the Gel'n_lan ‘Ambassador at Vienna knew the text of the ultimatum to Sex-via on 21st- July, three days before it was known to Servia and the other Powers.

A MIDNIGHT RIOT.

SINN FEINERS CAUSE PANDEMONIUM IN PRISON.

LONDON, Oct. 7.

I ‘A serious outbreak zby forty Sinn IFeiners at Mount JOY prison is reported. Included in the prisoners were [twenty-six brought after 'a hunger istrike from Cork prison, Haring failed to secure special treatment, theprisoners presented an ultimatum, expressing a, desire for an intervention by 9. chaplain. They carried out the threat contained in the ultimatum on the stroke of midnight, wrecking their cells, breaking the windows and furniture, and Smashing the walls. The entire prisonstaff was engaged for several hours restoring order. Sevf eral prisoners and Warders were injured. ’

A coLD-3LooI)I'ETT‘RUrrIAN.

Received 9.20 a.m

(PARIS, goat.

The French Grovermnen-t demands the extradition of Count Von Bismarck, the Chancellol"s grandson, on a charge of causing fourteen inhabitants in Valenciennes district to be shot under revolting conditions, to serve as’ an example, he said. AIR CONTEST. :NEW YORK TO ’FBISCO. _ Received noon. NEW YORK, Oct. 9. Sixty aeroplanes are starting on the trans-continental. fliglit. Forty machines will start from San Francisco simultaneously. The contest will be limited to military airmen, the purpose being to test tlie reliability of the machines. The British air attache at Washington and Ail'-Commander Charl-. -ton, will be competitors.

WILSON RAIPIIDLY RECOVERING. Received 11.25 am. ,WASI-lINGTON, Oct. 7. President Wilson is rapidly I'ec’(.lver—ing. - GERMANY"S EX-RULERS. DUTCH GOVERNMENT GRANTS THEM LIBERTY. NEW YORK, Oct. 7. The New York Times’ Ame---ongen c.ol'l'esponden't. learns that the Dutch Government has deei-‘led that the exCmwn Prince is now fr}? to leave Holland or travel within Holland. The Prince, however, will await final rati-fica-tion of Peace, and then return to Germany. _ln the mezlntime he Will; remain at VViol~ingen in order not to involve Holland in possible complications. The ex—Kaiser will also remain in Hollan‘d.