GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3334, 12 November 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

» “.‘.E.'S FIRM HAND. ‘ _—_— A . Received 9.10 am. y BERLIN, Nov. 9. ‘ ' Owing to"Noske’s "precautions the spar-tacists did not demonstrate on the anniversary of the Russian Bolshevists ;e_voluti_on., A WEALTHY COTTON CONCERN. CAMOUFLAGING THE PROFITS. Received 9.10 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 9. The directors of J. P. Coates are seeking the shareholders’ authority to capitalise 10$ millions of reserves, making the total capital 20% millions. They point out the scheme doesn’t increase the company’s earnings, but ,1-ducees the apparently high dividends which the public are adversely criticising.’ . .____._._. CABLE BREVITIES. Rceived 9.20 am. A PARIS, Nov. 9. I: A speech by a former member of NM. Clemenceau’s Caibinet is interpreted to mean that M. Clemenceau will be a candidate for the Presidency of ,L~the Republic in January. There were no organised celebrations on the anniversary of the armistice owing to the proximity of the Parliamentary elections. The Czecho-Slovakian Assembly has ratified the Peace Traty. TOKIO, Nov. 9. As the sovereign is worth only 16/, the British Government issending ten millions of gold to Japan to redress the exchange.

AMERICAN MIN-E"RS’ STRIKE

COLLAPSES.

Received 8.45 a..m.

WASHINGTON, - Nov. 11.

The miners’ strike has collapsed, and the workers have decided to comply gvith the Government order. The presiden of the‘ ‘mine Workers at Indiancpolié said it was impossible to fight the Government, and the only course was to comply with the Court's order.

A WAGE ‘AGREEMENT I:\SOUG*HT'. Received noon. ' A WASHINGTON, Nov. .11. Mr Wilson (Labour Secretary) called a. conference of miners and employers for the purpose of negotiating .a wage agreement. 9 AMERICA'S EMERGENCY FLEET. ' Received 8.45 am. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. The House passed a Bill providing for the immediate sale of private American interests in all vessels built by the Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation during the war. ALLIES’ BREACH Ol‘ ASRMISTICE. GERMANY ’;S ALLEGATION S. ' Received 9.10 am, e LONDON, Nov. 11. Newspapers state the reply to the Allies’ Note concerning Germany’s violations of armistice conditions, contains three thousand instances of the Ententeis violation of the .armis’ci'ce obligations. .

BULGARIA'S TRAITQRS.

Two HUNDRED ARRESTED.

SOEIA, . Nov. 10.

‘ Two hundred members of the Radoslavoff party have been arrested in connection with’ responsiblli.*.y for the rwar. The number includes ex—Minislter Tontcheff, General Petrof, and most of the former members of the y.R2\..doslavoff Cabinet. Ncgitiations are to be initia"te(l in the extradition of ex-Tsar Ferdinand, ex-Generalissimo Jakloif, and ex-Premier’ Rades]-asefi’. AN zacrro or SUBMARINE ‘ PIRACY‘. BRINGING ENGLAND TO HER KNEES. . . Received 9.20 am. _ BERLIN, Nov. 'll. ; “\1 The ‘War Inquiry Committee exam-j 'ned Admiral Koch and other officers} or the Admiralty ma. They contend-i “*1 "they 139V61‘ expected the submarines», ‘TO bring England to her knees‘, but to I dispose her to peace by showing that Germany could hold out the longest. This wonld have been -aéizomplished in 31917, but Erzeberger’s revelations regarding Czernin’s’pessimistic report to the Emperor Karl, and the Beichstag’s resolution in favour of peace en-

couraged England. to continue the war. Dr. gygvq, Reiehstag deputy _f-or Keil, ini rmca the committee that the Admiralty ’$ statementxs flaring the war concerning the number of submarines -available for dfity were grossly untrue. only..s4rwere availablgout of 203 durV_ii\ggl9l7. _']_.‘he,Admiralty only ordered ‘s6"during 1917, though thiev German was cblild have turned out 139.

EXPLOSION AT NAMUR. Received 9.10 am. ' BERLIN, Nov. 11. ' At Namur the explosion of an ammunition dump killgzd ten out—of fourteen British sentries. - - -