GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3412, 17 February 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES

l TI-IE EX-GERMAN smrs. i NO SECRET AGREEMENT. ; ——————- i TO HAND T 0 BRITAIN. ! ‘Received 8.55 am. 1 ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. President Wilson emphatically informed the Senate that there was ‘no foundation for statements in the Senate Ithat there was *3. secret agreement between the Shipping Board and British interests to sell thirty ex-Gen man liners to Britain. ¥Wilson, in a Note to the Allies, says’ that unless ‘the Fiumc settlement is made with American participation the i United States will withdraw from any further negotiations and refuse to parrticipatc in policing the Adriatic. 1 rm: EX-KAISER. TO BE INTERNED ABROAD. Received 8.40 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 16. The Allied Note to Holland merely demands that the Ex-Kaiser be interned abroad, . ~;WlI.SON TURNED DOWN. BY FRANCE AND ENGLAND. IN THE FIUME SETTLEMENT. Received 8.55 am. PARIS, Feb. 16. Mr Lloyd George and M. Millerand promptly rejected President Wilson’s objections to the Adriatic settlem-ent. ‘ NEW BRITISH COiNAG-E. SILVER COINS WITHDRAWN. Received 11.25 a.m. LONDON, Feb. f. 15. New alloyed shillings and sixpences, to be circulated in March, resem-. ble the old coins. The latter are being gradually withdrawn from circulation, and returned to the .mint for conversion. The Treasury has not decided the question of nickel coinage, but states it is ready for a rapid issue if necessary. PATAGONIAN MEAT. COMPLAINTS BY IMPORTERS. LONDON. Feb. 15. While the Board of Trade refuses to disclose details of the Patagonian meat purchase, importers engaged in the Dominion’s trade assert that it means that 1,250,000 carcases of mutton will be added to the already congested stock. - The Globe says:~—-“’l‘ra.ders believe the Government's fresh purchase is intended to yield a profit suflicient to balance losses incurred on earlier meat contracts. Tlioligh the market is glutted prices continue absurdly high. The trades intends to again urge Mr Lloyd George to sanction the removal of control.

‘ THE '..uJBBE-RS’ DEN . ' PIMLICO HOUSE RAIDED. SENSATIONAL REVELATIONS LONDON, Feb. 15. T-hree detectives raided a house at Pimlico, occupied by an Austrlaian Military Police corporal, where it was believed the proceeds of recent big Burglaries were concealed. The Australian fired a revolver at l the detectives, butowing to the magazine jamhing, only one shot was effect tive, striking Detective-Sergeant Coop- ‘ er in the right breast, and coming out at the shoulder. The wound was not serious. i The Australian was arrested, and ’also another occupant. Sensational revelations are predicted. t V The house at Pimlico had been under jobservvagtion several days. The police ; forced an entry at two o’clock on Suni day ‘morning, and while in the passage [the Australian demanded their busi)ness. The police replied, “We intend ‘ to search. these premises.” They heard the revolver click in the darkness. It misfired, and then oa. shot rang out, the bullet striking Cooper. The Australian was overpowered and arrested, shouting, “It’s all a mistake.” Tho police ark; juret'icent megardinig the contents of the premises, but indicate sensational developments, involving the arrest of others using the‘ premises as a store for the proceeds of robberies. THOUGHT ’DHE POLICE .WERE BURGLARS. CHARGED WITH ATTEMPTED MURDER. LONDON, Feb. 16. When the police arrived at 8 Moreten Place they aroused an unmarried woman nained Harvey, who, believing‘ they were burglars, ran to a room} where King and his wife were sleeping. ! King picked upa pistol and ran to the 1 front door to see whatwas the maftter. The‘ police forced the door. King‘

'warned them that unless they showed their authority he would shoot, but Detective Cooper rushed on. King fired. The rest of them overpowered King and took him to Gerald Road ‘police station. Meanwhile a man and ‘woman whom the police were really .seeking were aroused. The police i caught the woman and took her to the police station with King. The man successfully hid himself in -a cupboard in a neighbouring room, where he terrified a woman into silence un'til "the police had gone. Curiously enough the | man did not attempt to escape, but reHumed to his room, barricaded the l door, and went to sleep again- He was taken by the police later in ‘the morning, Two other members of the gang arrived during the afternoon, but instead of_ finding their comrade, they found the police in possession, and were a.rrested.¢° _ . LONDON, Feb. 15. The Australian arrested at Plimlico is Corporal King. He was awaiting a passage to Australia, and will be charged with attempted murder. A MAN OF HIGH CHARACTER. LONDON, Feb. 16. Major Jarvie, who communicated to the police Australian headquarters regrets at Detective Cooper’s‘ wound, says King is a farmer, a teetotaller, and a splendid character. He is over six feet» high. He met and married his wife while in France. Major Jarvie, Australian Assistant Provost Marshal, gives Corporal King a most excellent character. He served with the Fourth Battalion throughout the war. Apparently he shot Cooper believing the police were burglars. DARDANELLES CONTROL. SULTAN MAY STAY. ‘xi PARIS, Feb. 15. The Allied Conference. decided on a rigorous naval. and m’il-itary control of the Dardanelles. They will permit the Sultan to rt:-main at Constantinople. , WIRELESS TELEPHONY. SENSATIONAL PREDICTION BY ' MARCONI. WHAT MAY BE'EXPECTED THIS YEAR. ROME, Feb. 15. Marconi, in a sensational article in the newspaper “I 1 Nuovo Giornale,” predicts an imminent 1-evol’u‘Lfon in wireless communication. He says that within the present year vocal communications transmitted witliout. without wires will replace the cumbrous system of to-day. This will dispense entirely with the cost of maintaining lines, also frequent interruptions owing to bad weather. To—day we cannot concentrate expansion of energy within a limited sector of a circle, but science will ‘find a way to direct electrical energy in a straight line which will result in less expenditure of energy. Once directive control is established we shall be able to gird the whole World with waves of electric energy by simply pressing a transmitting button. Marconi describes a marvellous radio-telegraphic receiver, the size of a gramaphone, by which he receives all day long in his study every scrap of wireless news sent out. Bankers, politicians and business men will soon be able to keep in continual. -contact with both hemispheres. The miserable ticking machine will yield place to this mighty invention, which is equally suitable for news sending and news-receiving, thus. Saving great, 1055 of time due to sending separate messages. News Will also be registered in clear language without the necessity of the Morse code. When radio= telegraphic receivers are established at every public school, university and library, public interest in international -happenings will immediately be stimulated. Every boy sléould be as well primed in world news as the inveterate reader.

IN DURHAM CATHEDRAL. BISHOP INVITES NON-CONFORI\[ IST TO OCCUPY PULPIT. ‘LONDON, Feb. 16. Responding to Dean Weldon’s invitation, Rev. John Jowett, non—conform—ist minister, occupied the pulpit at Durham Cathedral at Evensong. There W 35 3 Vast congregation, and when R-‘CV. Joweft entorofl. ’fho pulpit. the vxcar of a neighbouring parish rose and P"°teS'“‘d- Amid cries of “Put him Out,” the congregation struck up a hymn: “’hilo the Virmm was removed.