GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3396, 29 January 1920, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

alleged traitors. PARIS, Jan. 26,

A court-martial has opened of seven soldiers who were charged with assisting the enemy. Tho men were mostly deserters who returned to .France, and acted as spies under the direction of the famous r ‘blondo lady” of Antwerp, the cleverest Gorman organiser. BRITISH CABINET. „MR BARNES RESIGNS. LONDON, Jan. 27. The Daily Express states that Mr Barnes has resigned from the Cabinet and will probably rejoin the Labour Party.

LONDON, Jan. 26. Fodi laid the foundation of the memorial to the Dovc.r Patrol at Calais. BOXER LOSES A HAND. PARIS, Jan. 27. Depunthion, who strained his right wrist when fighting Taney Lee. on December 24th, developed blood poisoning and his hand was amputated.

EGYPTIANS V. INDIAN’S. LONDON, Jan. 27. The Daily Express’s Cairo correspondent states' that Egyptians attacked Indian troops at Tanta. Fighting ensued. Twenty Egyptians were killed and fifty wounded. JAM FACTORY DESTROYED. ADELAIDE, Jan. 27. McEwn’s jam factory w*as destroyed by fire. The damage i s estimated at £30,000 sterling. STRIKING PROHIBITION. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 24. The German Government, in consequence of numerous railway strikes, ha s issued a decree prohibiting Government officials from striking.

THE DOMINION’S STANDING. * LONDON, Jan. 26. A leading Minister connected with the Colonial Office admitted in conversation that the theory that Dominions were equal nations was not working well in practice. There was all the paraphernalia for the Dominions.’ delegates signing treaties with separate seals, yet in great questions of Empire policy, such as attitude towards Russia and the future of Constantinople, they were not consulted. He

suggested that the Dominion Premiers should permit second Ministers - ' to represent them sometimes in London. though he admitted that this involved a trusted partnership, such *rs existed in the case of Botha and Smuts.