GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3412, 17 February 1920, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

A BOLSHEVIK APPEAL.» . __._.- FOR ECONOMIC ‘RESTORATION. ......... LONDON, Feb. 14. A Moscow wireless. states that a decree compells all over 16 years or age to carry 9. Labour booklet, which serves as a. pasSl.'.§‘R"l§l‘ll.’ ‘6'n'§u~res universal productive work. Citizens unable to produce the booklet are put to manual labour. Lenin is appealing for economic restoration. He declared that the twofold victory——the Red army successes and the raising of the

blockude———was: due solely to the Sympathy the Society inspires in the workmen of hostile countries Our propaganda deprived the Entente of the possibility of using their armies.

AN AGREEMENT. COPENHAGEN, F 6). 14. Major C»"'3i"a‘u’y"and Litvinbfl (Bolshevik Ambassador) have reached an agl-een'len\t. It is expected that all British will be out of Russia within a month after ratification. I. ‘ .._._...___..__ THE IRISH CRISIS. MORE_ RAIDS AND ATTACKS. -- I _.___A__,, _, __ I

LONDONfi, Feb. M. Police and soldiers in motor lorries made a series of raids in Dublin at daybreak, arresting eight, ixfcxudfng :1

Town>Councillor. Michael Staines, M.P., escaped by a back door while the police were knocking at thefmnt. Civliians attacked two constables at Rathdrum, wounding One. The policemen returned the fi1;~, killing a civi»liia'n. 7

_A GERMAN IN LONDTIN. A LONDON, Feb. 13. Herr Sthamar, German Charge d’Affail-es, arrived at Charinf; Cross. Directly the train came to 9 standstill he hurried off the statiun and so evaded a public reception. He travelled by taxi to the old embassy on Carleton House Terrace. GERMAN FLAG IN ENGLAND. ' LONDON, 1. en. 14. The German Embassy has re-open-ed. The German flag will be flown for the first time in England since the war, on Monday, after St"_‘.£L:llel' presents his credentials. .____......—... LEAGUE Ol‘ NATIONS. LONDOKQ Feb. 14. A public meeting of the League of Nations’ Council opened. Mr Balfour; ’lll“‘a‘<b«i'ief speech, declared that after the experience oi‘ the last few days lie looked forward to the future of the council with the ut- J most confidence. The _ buisinesslike and conciliatory spirit shown had -.‘i-:- I monstrated that the League wo~ul.l‘n'e of incalculabTe ‘service to mankind. l M. Bourgeois submitted a I'-eportl regarding the Court of International‘ Justice. It‘ was resolved to refer the‘ question to a Commission of legal experts to be discussed at the next: meeting. It was alt“ resolved to re» fer the question of a permanent «or-‘ ganisation to deal with matters re-I lating to transit, wate.rW:.jrs_. ports and railways to the existing French Commission, and the permanent or-' ganisation of health affairs to the ex-1 isting British co’rn‘filissl‘on. i The Council decided to admit Swit-1 zerland as an original member of the‘ League while permitting Switzerland to retain her neutrality in View of her special position. It was fiirthe‘i~ resolved to convene” an international conference to study means of remedying the financial

crisis. The second day's proceedings of the Council of the League at St. James? Palace settled the organisation of ‘the Saar Basin and rejected the request of four Grman communes for inclusion in ‘the Saar region on the ground that the Treaty does not empower. the Council to make changes of delimitation ' The League of Nations Council has closed. The next meetzintg‘ will be in Rome about the middle of March. AMERICA’S TERMS IMPOSSIBLE. NEW YORK, Feb. 14. The Wol'ld’S London correspondent interviewed Mr Balfour. who said that if the United States were :I:lml'tted to the League with reservations, tfien other countries ’a.t the Expiration of two years’ membersmp’ V.-,,u_ld 315.0 withdraw and demand re-admittance with reservations. This would mm“ the ruin of the League,

‘ WORLDWIDE STRIKES. FINANCED BY BOLSHEVIKS. WAS SYLVIA PANKHURST PRESENT? 4 AMSTERDAM, F-e~b. 16. The Handelsbad states that the police -arrested or expelled a number’ of Germans, Russians, and others who were attending a secret Bolshevik conference, at which were British and American representatives. It is reported that Sylvia Pankhurst was present, It. is alleged that the Russian Soviet Government was financing the confer.ence by means of pearls, diamonds, and other jewels worth twenty minion rouble’S, in order to support world-wide revolutionary strikes.

N.Z. IMMIGRATION SCHEME. HUNDREDS OF DISAPPOINTED PEOPLE.

LONDON_. Feb. 13. Sir Thomas |Mackenie states qthat the New Zealand staff has ‘been over-

whclmed by applications since Mr Mass'e'y’s immigration announcement. Five hundred would-be immigrants are arriving daily, and the whole time is consumed in explaining that at least a year will ela-pse Ibegore a single imI grant can be carried, except several

{hotxsand domestics find Homixxafccls registered during the war. There are also domiciled New Zoalanders urgently claiming return, EMPIRE STATISTICS. CENTRAL BUREAU NEEDED.

LONDON, Feb. 1.4. I Presiding at a Government luncheon to delegates to the Imp(.‘l‘l'3.l Statistical Conference, Sir Auckland Gcddes (leclared that the Government regarcled ‘the conference as most iinportant, be-' cause Cabinet. would presently make decisions ‘affecting the destiny of every part of the Empire in almost complete ignorance of the real position of the Empire. The Government wanted to see the statistical machinery of the Empire placed on a satisfactory basis, thus enabling it to supply information at present lacking. HOUSING IN BRITAIN. QVHOUSAND MILLION STERLING WANTED. LONDON, Feb. 14. The ofiicia] report of the local authorities to the I’l'elnier and Mr Chamberlain for promotion of housing schemes show that they asked the Government to raise a thousand millions for that purpose. Mr Chamberlain pointed out the supreme importance of the cessation of borrowing. The

Government would not undertake the responsibility even if the amount could be raised. SIGNIFICANT EYE-ELECTION. LONDON, Feb. 14-. The Ashton-under-Tyne bye-election, necessitated by the elevation of Sir A. Stanley, I'o.~%ulted:—Sil‘ Walter Defrege (Coalition I_Tnionis’r) 8864, Robinson (Labour) 8327, Sir Kl-thur Marshall (Liberal) 3911. I FOR THE POOR. GABY DESLI/S’ CHARITY. PARIS, Feb. 13.

Gaby Deslys’ will bequeaths ten million francs ‘to her mother and siStCl‘ during their lives. and afterwards to the town of M-arseilles for the assistance of the poor. Gab}/"s jewels will be sold immediately for the poor, and! 1101' house in Marseilles will be converted into ‘.l hospital for the poor. GRE EK T:RAITORS. NE. A COI.Ol\"I-JL SENTENCED TO DEATH. . ATHENS, Feb. 13. Colonel Metaxas, convict-ed ofi high treason on a charge of surrendering Fort Rupol to the Bulgarians, was con‘. demned to death, and General Wumanis, member of the general staff‘, to plenal servitude for life for acting in German interests during the war,

U.S. LOANS TO FOREEGN COUNTRIES. IMPORTANT SCHEME FOR P.-EFUNDING. NEW YORK, Feb. TI3. The New York Times’ Washington correspondent states that .A."~r.'.:;rant.Secretary to the Treasury Dmris; out lined a plan to Covllgl-ems by which in, terest on the United Sta?.(=.s’ ninetyfive hunfired million dollars loans to foreign.‘-‘€.’o‘€'ernnlents wouZ:l be :iefel-r----ed for three years, after which the debt would be refunded into fifteen years’ »bollds. .doferred intr.>.:-est being paid in fifteen annual i:;st:Llm¢rnts. The United States would zhus forCgo interest upon three max-3' cjleforred infm-est. Mr Davis 11;.-'_‘n-ova‘; of Hl9 pl:-.n.

. SNOW IN NEW YORK. HEAVIEST SINCE’ 1887. TRAFFIC HELD UP. ‘ MERCHANTS LOSING FIVE MIL- ‘ LION DOLLARS DAILY. NEW YORK, Febi 113. The New York City authorities have appropriated 7,290,000 dollars in order to clear the streets of the heaviest fall of snow since 1887. 'l‘-rafiic is so badly blocked that the city is; begin-. ning to suffer from lack of fresh foods. The Merchants’ Assoc§.a.'.*.ion estimates that business men are losing five million dolars daily, due to the snow.