GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3408, 12 February 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

RECONSIDERING '[HE TREATY.

SENATE SII"3 ON ILIONDAY.

WASHING'I‘ON, Feb. 10

Reconsideration of the Peace 'l're-”t1~Y will=be resumed by the Ssaana 011 Monday next.

CROWN PRIN(.‘.~E'S OFFER.

VVASHINGTON, Feb. 10.

It is announced that President Wilson has received a cable from the exCrown Prince of Germany offering himself for trial in place of 180 Germans demanded in the black list presented by the Allies. - '

NEW ECCLESIASTICAL PROVINCE-. Received 9.10 ia.m. LONDON, Feb. 9. A joint session of the Houses of Convocation yesterday, decided to create four Welsh dioceses-in the new Ecclesiastical“ Province. It is expected the Bishop of St_ Asaph will be appointed the first Archbishop of Wales.

BOLSHEVIKS CAPTURE SAKHALIEN.

Received 9.10 am.

(HONOLULU, Feb. 11%

The Japanese newspaper Nippijyi prints 2. despatch from Tokio stating that Siberian Bolsheviks captured Alexandrovsk, ca.pitJa.l of the Island of Sakhalin. Fear is felt that ‘the enemy may enter Siberia proper.

FREE FIGHT IN FRANCE. Received 9.10 a.m. BARIS, ,Feb. 9. A Brest message. states :that there were several hours of disorder with serious incidents when ex-soldiers, including a blind decorated poilu, defying the Socialist Ma.yor’s prohibition, forced the cordon of police and marched in procession to pay homage at the Monument to Wol'kel's. A rival Socialist‘ procession" engaged ‘them in a free fight, the respective crowds singing the “M.éirseillaise” and the .“Interna~ tionalc.” A’ ' '

SELF-DETERMINATION.

SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN.

FIRST POLL LAST TUESDAY.

Received 9.20 a.m

COPENHAGEN, Feb. 10.

A plebiscite. in the first zone, south of Jutland, 1-elating to s‘elf-determiner tion, is being taken to-day. Voters number 109,000. Ten steamers and many special trains conveyed ten thousand Slesvigers I'esiding"'in Denmark into the zone in order to vote. Their arrival e'auSe(] a. great patriotic demonstration.

SINN FEIN MURDER. Received 9.20 a.m. z LONDON, Feb. 10. Extraordinaiy precautions were taken at the trial of John Madden, Dublin, charged with“ murdering a policeman. Soldiers with. fixed bayonetg guarded all approaches to the court. One squad had charge of the door, and twenty armed police occupied thp gallery facing the. Judge.