GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3404, 7 February 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BOOSTING AUSTRALIA.

INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL FILMS IN AMERICA.

LONDON, Feb. 5.

Films (illustrating Aus‘tl.ak-tan mgrb cultural and industrial pursuits'wel.e shown at Austnalia. House before a_ party of— American ‘business men and representative j-our-nalists, It is, in_ tended to send the films on exhibition through America. BRITISH FOOD MINISTER RESIGNS LONDON, Feb. 5. Mr Roberts, Food Minister, has tended his resignation. In view of the prospective termination of the Ministryys activities, it is possible that his resignation may not be accepted,

GERMANY APOILOGISES.

PARIS, Feb. 6.

The German Government has apologised for Von Lersner’s attitude, which was opposed to instructions. Von Lersner had resigned, and his action would be subject to ofiicial inquiry.

HOWL OF RAGE IN BERLIN.

BERLIN, Feb. <3.

Newspapers greet-ed~tlle publication of the list of war criminals with a. howl of rage. They demanded the immediate convocation of the National Assembly, and call on the Government to resist this last land greatest. indigm ity heaped on stricken Germany. Vorwaerts compares the Entente’s Note with the Austrian iltimatum, and says it is purposely worded so that compliance. is impossible. Some complain that the list has been drawn up in a frivolous manner, as it contains the names of dead, including Haeseler, Fritz Von Bulow, and Von Ingerhol. The Prussian Diet suspended the sitting as '3. token of members’ indignation at the Entente’s action.

Noske, as Minister‘ of Defence, has issued an appeal to the public to remain dignified and refrain’ from molesting foreign missions.

SUGGESTION "BY CONAN DOYLE.

GERMAN JUDGE TO BE APPOINTED.

LONDON, Feb. 6.

Sir A. Conan Doyle suggests that a German Judge should be added ‘to the Allied tribunals trying the War criminals, and fhus save Germany’s face and .a]lev:':lte the present I'osent'ment.

FRANCE DETERMINED. GERMANY MUST CARRY OUT TREATY. PARIS, Feb. "5. Premier Miller-and», in an important statement to the Foreign Affairs Cornmittee, declared that France intended to insist on the execution of the Treaty with all the means in her power. and she possessed a sumciency of arms for this purpose.» Germany was delivering only 300,000 tons of coal monthly, instead of 1,600,000. Moreover, she was evading the Treaty in other ways.