GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 9 October 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

FRENCH ELECTIONS.

MUCH SPECULATION CAUSED.

Received 9.30 a.m

PARTS, Oct. 7.

Never since the fall -6‘: the Empire have the Parliamentary elections caused s__uc.h speculation. due to the fa‘-t that the Voting is by departments instead of districts. Eight};-seven electoral departments replace six_ hundred districts. An elector, instead of vot~ ‘ing for a single deputy, may vote for -as many as are allocated to his dupartment. The date of the elections will probably be in November.

SHARP AMERICAN NOTE TO ITALY.

Received 9_15 run. , WAS-I-IINGTO?-I, Oct. 8. The United States has forwarded a sharp Note to Italy. Officials deny it is anything in the nature of an u.ltim.. atum, as the Italian pmss allege.

TRANSCONTINENTAL AIR RACE

Received 9.15 '4' m. NEW YORK, Oct. 8.

The majority of the aeroplanes com‘ pleted the first section at the cross continent journey simultaneously. Several left San‘ Francisco, competing in the opposite direction. One plane fell at Mineola, and Crown], Assistant Secretary of War was inj'nred_

FIGHTING IN Cl-‘UNA.

Receivéd 9.15 a.nl.

NEW YORK, Oct. 8.

The United Press Ame; correspondent states that hostilities between the northern and southern Governments have been resumed. Troops are leaving Amoy for Changchou, where the southern forces are stationed.

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DISQUIETING RUMOURS.

- Received 9.45 :1 m. ‘ W"A.SI{ING’I‘(‘>N', Oct. 8_ Extraordinary interest centres ~i..‘Mr WilSon’S illness as 1*) Whether he is mentally deranged. The: Associated Press so far has transuu’tl“ed nothing over its wires to SU'=_r2;':+:t anything more is wrong than I'B mntained in the physician’S bulletins. About halt’ the newspapers of the rr~:mtry frankly publish disquieting (M,gpatcl,eS_

WHAT ITALIANS THINK OF WILSON. ACCUSATION ‘OF INSANITY. - EW YORK, Oct. 8. \ Newspapers are publishing Rome advices quoting the Idea. Nazionale: “we have been judged badly at the Conference, since hitherto the only oppoéition'comes from a "man who is mentally deranged. The Ti-ibunua, says; Regarding Fiume, the ‘Allies have ‘alindly followed the suggestion of a high personagenot free from human wenltncss, who is today suffering a serir-us derangement to his nervous system, which pea haps explains the hithem inexplicahe features of handling the Fimue case by Wilson. Several leading Republican news--papers say the Cabinet is considering a declaration of the disability of the President, and the inst_allation_ of Vice President Marshall until Wilson is fully recovered.

Nl‘-FW BULGARIAN CABINET. Received 9.20 am. . " . PARIS, Oct. 8. The Bulgarian ‘Cabinet has reéigned on the gl~ound”’of Bulgaria’s peace tre-aty’g unfavourable reception. Stambulinski, imprisoned by Ferdinand’ in 1915 after a violent protest a.ga.inst the war, is fo.rming a ‘Cabinet with tfie Socialists’ co operation.

BANQUET TO GENERAL ALLENBY. . »

Received 11.50. am.

LQNm;\:,_ Oct. 7

Sir I). Haig, General Mou_-ash. Lloyd George; nlemb_ers. of. the .’Ja.bine.t, Messrs Fisher, Mackenzie, and agents genera‘. a'ttende'd th’e"':\T.ln«s¢.-m House luncheon to General -..\ilenby. who paid a warm tribute to the London Divisions’ share in the capture of Beershcba and securing the surrender cf Jerusaleum. The division remained in the .Tor6an_ Valley, 1300 ‘wt’ below sea lmei, the whele snringg and .~'ummer «of 1918,, and carried out in co» operation with the Aus‘;r;:.lian and Ne w Zealand Light. Horse twr) great raidg General 'Allenby added: According to text iooks it was impossibe to keep troopgbin the Jordan Valley ziuriqgg the Summer owing to mosquitoes and malaria, but we stuck it. We zrttackei the mesqurtocs, drained swamps, c.anaissed Stl'({.nlS, burned bush and oiled the pools.

THE SCUTTLED HUN FLEET.

FRANCE WANTS HEP. SHARE.

Received Noon. D LONDON, Oct. 8.

French naval experts visited Sczipa Flow and estimate the German ships are v-rc.:~lh millions, but are d.t'criorating about 5 per cent. mc»llthly. Ewi-

perts uago France to detnaud her s.h».vo,

BOMB EXPLODES IN FACTORY. Received N;).»n. NEW YOIIK, Oct. 8. According to a message from Pittsburg a bomb exploded in the American Tinplate Co’s. Works, 'McKeesport Steel Trust Centre, wrecking the plant No one was injured.

ANOTHER NEGRO‘ IYNCHED. Received Noun; NEW YORK, Oct. 8. At Macon, Georgia, a n€gro who was. serving ten years for atfexnpting a farnler’g life was removed from gaol and shot to death by a mob.

SHIPWRECKED CREW SAVED. I-lALIFAX” Oct. 8. " NEW YORK, Oct. 8. The American steamer Afol rescued the crew of the British steamer Sisergo Castle, which was sunk at sea.