GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3392, 23 January 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

CLEMENCEAUS DEFEAT.

FRENCH PUBLIC ASTOUNDED. A ENEMY SONV S TARES; LONDON, Jan. 20. The Observer’s Pamis correspondent states that Clemenceaug’s defieat astonished the public, who und'erra.te~d theimportance of underground work in the lobby by men like Broand. The election of Deschanel means Briand’s early return to the Premiership. It is significant that the public; comment on the victory of C-lemen-ceau’s political em:-mies is that Caillaux is now certain to be acquitted.

WOOL PROFITEERING.

LONDON, aJn. 20.

A meeting of the standing committee on trusts unanimously favoured the publication of the. report regarding wool profiteering, but: it is awaiting the decision of the Board of Trade, me«anwhile=, owing to the threat of Labour members of the committee to suspend work until publication, the oommit.tee resolved to-day that publication of any partial or revised reports would bgg Wholly unsatisfactory, and presses for frfim-pt publication of the report as submitted to" the Board of Trade

FRENCH POLITICS. FROM PRESIDENT TO MINISTRY. Received s_4o'a.m.’ PARIS, Jan. 21. It is expected t'hat'When Poincaire quits the Presid-'e’nAcy he will take the portfolio of Foreign Affairs- in Ivlills_erards Ministry. '

_ WILL STAND FOR PAISiLBY. IF LIBERALS VVANT HIM, Received 8.40 .a.m.. LoNDo‘fi, if Mr As‘quitTl has inti-mated his WHlingnessr to contest the Paisley byeelection, hteild owing to Mr Mccallums death, if local Liberals invite him.

MAP-MAKING EXTRAORQINARY.

WORK OF BRTT'?['S»H AIRMEN.

! IN THE PALESTINE CAMPAIGN_ | Received 9 am... 3 ' LONDON, am. 20. 3 Captain Tvhomas, lecfuring at the lsociety of ‘Arts, narrated how the British adva,nc4_=. on Jerusalem was held up by mountainous. country. Old maps were useless, and the Air Force was ordered to make new ones. The order was issued one night and next day two Australians, Captain Ross—Sm-ith and Lieut. Austin, photographed’ the wholb area of thirty-seven square~ miles between the British and the Holy City. Surveyors worked all the following night, and {by next evening thby had a inap printed on the field.' press. Five. 'd'a.ys later Jerusalem was taken. M .

DRIFTING STEAM]-IR RESCUED. TEN RESCUERS DROWNED. - Received B_4o a.m. ' HALIFAX (Nova Scotia.) Jan. 20. The -steamer Powhatan, which has bizen adrift for some days in the Atlantic, has been rescued. -Eight men were drowned, when a restcue boat from the stl:a.mer Northern Pacific was: capsized.

BERNHA RDTI IN TERVIEWBD.

RETURN TO KAISERDOM PREDICTED " MANY INFLUENCES AT WORK. Received 16.35 a.m. . NEW YORK, Jan. 20. The New York World’s Berlin correspondent interviewed Von Bernhardi; who said that Kaiserism ‘will untimately return to Germany] The Crown Prince has a chance to become Emperor, but the Kaisencannotl return. German public opinion has already become more conservative in attitude, and the army will have something to say in reference to future conditions in Germany. It is sure that we are heading‘ towards an important change; an endeavour is -being made by many parties to replace a Protestant Kaiserdom with a Catholic monarchy, hoping thus to annihilate the influence of Russia. The outcome of all this will be Parlia~ mentary monarchy such as ‘obtains in England and Italy. ‘I regret this, because I do not believe Parliamentary monarchy to be to the best advantage of the Fatherland.

SHIPPING ARRIVALS.

Received 9.55 am. ‘ LONDON, Jan. 20

Arriveq. at London, Port Elliot, frbm New Zealazlr];" at ‘Southampton, .RenuVlera,i frfoni Wellington.

PLUTOCRATS IN MUD HUTS.

WINDFALL TO EGYPT.

COTTON MILLIONAIRES.

LONDON, Jan. 21‘

The Daily Express correspondent at Cairo says that Egypt has made at least £—-100,000,000 out of cotton. Many of the mlltiviators living in mud hut-ss have madie. unexpected fortunes, sometimes running into £IOO,OOO.

THE POWHATTAN RESCUE. 271 PERSONS ABOARD CEDRIC. Receivéd 10.55 am. A NEW YORK, aJn. 20. ' A Boston message sta,tes‘th'at the Cedric wirehcssed that she took aboard 271 persons from the Powhattan. The Pow-hattan is now out of danger, and other ireslsels will tow her in when the sea calms-. THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS_ AMERICA’S UNCERTAIN POSITION A SECRETARY RESIGNS‘. Rceived 10.50 am, ‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 20. Mr Raymond Fossdick, U-nd'er Secre-tary-General to the League of Nations -has cabled to Drummond his resignation on the ground that the United Sta.tcs has an"’url»certain position in the Leagmg which makes the sevér.a.lTce nccesslary. ‘

TREATY RATIFICATION. THE DISGRUNTLED AMERICANS. Received. 10.50 am. _ NEW YORK, Jan_ 20. Senators Johnson and Reed, in speechies, declared that no I further compirormise in the Treaty shouldo be made ‘by Senate, beyond the accepance of the ‘Lodge reservations. ’