CARBINE'S SKELETON COMING HOME.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3354, 5 December 1919, Page 5

CARBINE'S SKELETON COMING HOME.

Received 9.40 a.m. LONDON. Dec. 4

The Duke of Portland is shipping the skeleton of Carbine by the steamer Parma this week.

ASSISTING IMMIGRATION TO THE

DOMINIONS.

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"LONDON, Dec.

The Government decided to grant free passages to ex-service men from India or other extra-European stations to th c Dominions under the overseas settlement scheme, provided the overseas Governments approve. The Australian "authorities have authorised a grant of free third-class passages to. any Australian soldiers who have taken their discharge and may decire to .return to Australia. A similar privilege will be extended t% their wives.

OPENING OF ITALIAN PARLIAMENT.

KING GETS A GREAT RECEPTION

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ROME, Dec. 1

At tlje opening of the Chamber the King said he favoured greater participation of the Labour Party in the Councils of the Nation. He had an enthusiastic reception in the streets, where several Socialist leaders were mobbed and rescued by the police:

GERMANY'S TREATY OBLIGATION

AMERICA SOLID WITH ALLIES

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PARIS, Dec. 4

The American delegation has warned the German representatives that the United States was solid in respect to the Allies' reference regarding Germany carrying out her Twenty obligations.

DALMATIAN DEFENSIVE TREATY.

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LONDON, Dec. 4

The Dalmatian Anglo-French Defensive Treaty will be carried out without the United States.' participation.

TURK AND GREEK. a - - COLLISION IN ASIA MINOR. SALONIKA, Dec. 3. A communique states that when the Greek forces on November 21, were taking up the demarcation line in Asia Minor fixed by the Peace Conference, severe fighting occurred. The Turkish casualties were 110 killed, beside the rebel chief Geudel, and 190 wounded.

RIOTS IN ITALY

SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED

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During riots several were killed in the streets. There ig a grave situation in other- cities. BOXING. CAEPENTIEE BEATS BECKETT. Received 10.55 a.nu LONDON, Dec. 4. Carpcntier won the boxing match with Beckett.

BECKETT OUTED IN 70 SECONDS

Received 12.45 a.m. LONDON, Dec. 4. Carpentier knocked Beckett out in seventv seconds.

FORTNIGHTLY STEAMER SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA.

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LONDON, Dec. 1.

The steamer Mantua reconditioned after war services, sails from London on January 3rd, snauugr»ating the resumption of the P. and O. Company 's services to New Zealand. THE MEXICAN DISPUTE. MEXICAN FOKCES ON THE B'ORDER. > s WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. Senator H. P. Ashurst, speaking in the Senate, said that the United States ought immediately to mobilise in view of the threatening character of the Mexican forces on the American border. For five years the United States had stood unheard of insults. She ought at least to project Americans within America's borders.

Senator Fall isai|d"that Bolshevist literature was being circulated by Mexican diplomatic officers in the United St'ates. They had distributed a sbook entitled "Conspiracy Against Mexico," the author being an Australian, Arthur Thomson. The book defended the Soviet Government system. , Senator Pall subsequently announced that the State Department held proof that President Oarranza approved Thomson's book^

DEFENCE OF THE EMPIRE.

LONDON, Dec. 3

Major General Devidson publishes a letter urging the Government - to immediately establish a joint Imperial Staff. He says that the matter brooks no delay, in view of the unknown possibilities of air and submraine developments 'and other serious matters affecting the whole loosely-linked Empire. He urges co-ordination of the Dominions, and Britain in a common policy of defence on more comprehensive lines than Lord Jellicoe's present attempt.'

DANGERS OF SILK STOCKINGS. INFLUENZA AND TRENCH FEET Received noon.< LONDON, Dec. 4. French medical writers ascribe the outbreak of influenza in the severestform among women to the wearing of silk stockings. One doctor declares he discovered several well defined cases of femal e trench feet , which he believed was due to splashing along boulevards almost barefooted in the bitterest weather.

NICHOLAS AND D'ANNUNZIO.

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LONDON, Dec. 1

According to the French press exKing Nicholas, who is living in luxurious retirement at Neuilly, when informed of Di'Annunzio's threat to go to Montenegro exclaimed: "Thank God there are still poets in the world." D'Annunzio, when informed of Nicholas's comment, replied:.. "I will put that eagle back in his nest."