GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3434, 13 March 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

.__..__g?..,_. THE ADLON INCIDENT.

SAVAGE OUTB UR-ST.

FRENCH OFFICER KILLED.

BERLIN, March 10.

The savage assaults on the Entente representatives continue to excite the country. Eight French flying officex-s_. nlenlbcx's of the aviat'lo.n mi.~:sioll, were attacked at Wernitz, near Potsdam, by mob Of peasanl‘s, anncd with hayforks and some firearms. The peasants accused them of poaching, and summoned them to SLll‘l'(‘lldL‘l'. Four obeyed, but {he others tried to escape. One was killed, two wounded, and the fourth escaped.

A crowd insulted a British chauffeur attached’ to the Boundary Commission, near Poson, because he photographed the Emperor William I‘.’s statue.

7 Prixlce Joachim and Colonel VOll Platen have been lodged in prison as a. result of the Adlon H6tel incident.

The commander of the Brelllc.n appealed to the Entcntc officcrs not to wear uniform. According to 3, Karlaruhe official it is estimated that a hundred Ithousand G'orm:Lns are I'cf't in Alsace-Lorraine.

Three Allied ofiicers of high rank, members of the military mission, were :I.<szullted by :1 large crowd in the streets of Bremen. An inquiry has opened.

HINDENBURG AS PRESIDENT. VVILL ACCEPT NOMINATION. BERLIN, March 11. There is a widespread. movement in favour of the nomination of Hindemburg as President of Grcrniany. He is willing to accept nomination, and is the most conspicuous figure in Germany acceptable to all parties except Flue Independent Socialists. It is asserted that even those opposed to militarism and the restoration of the Holr.-len7.ollorns will support Hindemburg, but pan-Germans openly regard his election as an important step towards. the res*Lol'aTion of the monarchy in some form.

JAPS IN KOREA‘

HIGH—H.-\NDED PROCEEDINGS.

Received 9.20 am

TOKIO, March 11

.-\z:<:ording to desputchos from Korea the Govel'nol'—Genoral ordered two .»\n:ex*iczln Methodist mi.-:sion schools to be «zlosvd because zhoy did not prevent students from celebrating" Korean Independence Day.

LEAGUE OF NATIONS RESERVATIONS.

EFFECT‘ ON CA NADA‘

Received 9.45 a.m

NEW’ YORK, Mzlrch ll

The Times’ Otfawa (correspondent reports that President of Privy Council Rowell, speaking in the House of Commons, said if the "United States Senate should adopt: the reservations now before it and the President accept them, the question of the United States’ entrance“ into the League of Nations might depend on the action of Canada, and under those, serious conditions we could not possibly give the necessary consent, because we are neither prepared to cut. the tie binding us to the Mother Countl'y nor revert to the old colonial relationship. Mr Rowell added: We all recognise the importance of the Ynitod States coming into the League. No country was more interested than (T‘zm:zda that the llnited States should join. VVO should be the last people in the world to put. any ol)>‘i'2t(ilG in the way of her entry, but if the United States should should finally say. “We will Come in only on condition that you practically get out or have your 9-'tatus intpairetl,” we can only reply, “We, as {L s(‘lf-respecting people, e;lm‘.ot ueeedt‘ to your terrns.”

BRITISH INCOME TAX. TA.XI\IG THE BACHEIJOR. Received Noon. - LONDON, March 11. The Daily Express states the Income Tax Comniissionlis report favours discrimination against the bitch’ elor by increasing ilie exemption allowance for a wife to £loo‘, the new exemption levels being £l5O and £250; also additional allowances for children. The tax scales show slight reductions on incomes unfier ‘£2oo, except in cases of unearned incomes. There are stiff increases on incomes over £2OOO, particularly those on--oal'H*‘»- Ti recommended that the SIIpF-l:—l.‘lx should be increased.

EARTHQUAKES IN GEORGIA. \A\'tl()l).E '.I‘OW'NS J)I:';S'I‘R()YE]). Received 9-20 a.n‘L. PARIS, March 11. A Tiflis telegram reports two earthquakes in Georgia. by which whole towns were destroyed. Fires broke out and the railways were destroyed. Thousanqs of peoplse ham! been rendered hom€l€Ss. TheT'e has also been heavy loss of life, ‘hundreds dying Of St('ll‘V9.tiOll. ANTI-SOCIALIST PLAY. Ac'.l_‘lo.\* BY THE ’W(fi)RKERS. Received 9.20 a.m. PARIS. March 11. The General Confedel'ation of La-_ hour, objecting to 3110 anti-Socialist tone of 21 play rehearsing in the Ambign Theatre. threatened. a. strike of all theatrical workers, and secured the withdrawal of the play. DEATH Ol‘ A WEAISHY HOSIBR. Received 9.20 a.m. « LONDON ,Ma1‘(:I1 11. Mr Hoxrard Morley, of I. ‘and R. Mm'lo_v_, h0.~"i01~s, Wood Street, left an estate valued at over three mlilion. NO MORE STRAP-HANGING. Received 10.50 am, LONDON, March 11. The Gener-.11 Omnibus CO.. Owing to the return of ex-soldiers, has been obliged to dismiss 500 conductors. The Conductors’ Union as a reprisal, has decided not to allow any strap hanging after Tuesday; all passengers must be seated. In View of the great shortage ofomnibuses the threat at?fects 130,000 passengers. DELEGATION FROM RUSSIA.

TO BE RECEIVED IN ENGLAND.

Received 10.50 am. ‘ LONDON, March 11%

Hr Halnar Greenwood in_ the House of Commons said the delegation from the Russian Co-opera-tive Association would be allowed to come to England, but Litvinoff, who desires to accompany the delegation, would not be pex-mit-l'ed to return to England.

THE IRISH CRISIS. ANOTHER CRISIS. Received 9.20 21.111. LONDON, March 11. Sergt. Moazer was shot dead and Constable Doyle wounded while proleating a boycotted farmer at Rath—keule in County Limerick. THE HOME RULE BILL. REJECTION MOVED BY ASQUITH. Received 9.20 21.111. LONDON, Mzl.l'cll ill, Mr Asquifh gives notice to move the rejection of the Home Rule Bill, “which denies national unity by establishing two-I legislatures and indefinitely postpones the establishment of n”Pal-liamen: for Ireland.” ADMIRAL SIMS’ EVIDENCE‘.

WH.-Vl‘ DEPARTMENI‘ MlS.'l\l}\.\lA('{El‘.lEl\'~’l‘ COST. Received 9.20 11.111. \VASHII\’GTON, March 11. ;\Jn»i'.':l} >’ims, in f'm'thol' tC-Stimony, sx:lf.od 1.110, .f-.-Liluro of the Navy Do~ pd‘vtrlw'nf to use i’m';~t fUl‘C(’>? 1-roperly re:~'l:Ttv(l_ in an 11v1x':M'0.~'saI‘y loss of 2,500.(‘mm ions of .-‘xllivd s}lipl_)ing by submarine al.‘t.ack. if so much tonnage had not ‘:;wml 10:3‘: the "YTnifod Stfttos wuuld have ‘neon :.=’uh9 to send «um»? million man In Fram-(= at who 1)-.".{i~.niv_:_,{

of ‘I9IB. ’ A PIG-HEADED DEPARTMENT. Received 9.45 a.ln. r WASHINGTON, Mai-cii 12. Adiniral Silll.s stated it was imDos' sigle “L fii-st, to induce the Navy De-pay-inmnt to adopt: the British and F‘rmich convoy system. The Depzlr‘£mmit. Dl‘(,‘vpo.'\‘f“d to adopt plans of their own inuliiii-'2w.tllre .which the Allies had 1-roviousl_v tried and zvbandonexl as wo.--thl<=ss. If was not until Lord Jr-llicoe Wrote oxpressilig the gravest a.m)relioii<iolls at the failure of the I7vlil'r=d States 10 lmrticipate that the lflvpamxinnt adopted the British tom. SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS. STATE OF PARTIES CAPETOWN, March 12. The .'~;iat.e of parties ‘up to date is: Unionists 21, Labour 2], Soutfi African Party 32, Nationalists 33, Independent 3, There is unlikely to be any material change in the Unionist and Labour elections. There is 110 W a close contest ‘between’ the South African Pa:-ty and Nationalists. Van Greende-n. Minister of A£—'l’iculfur9 was defeutetl by a Nationalist at Cradock. ’

SOUTH WALES STEEL STRIKE ENDED. Received 9.20 a.m. LONDON, March 11. The 80111111 Wales Steel strike has‘ ended, enabling the tinplafe industry to resume. REPORT ON AIR SERVICES. PROVISION FOR. THE FUTURE. (Imperial News Service.) Received 10.15 a.m. LONDON, March 11. In the House of Commons, Mr Tyron, Under-Secretary for the Air Ministry, in introducing the air estimates, stated the personnel of the air force had been reduced from 164,000‘ to 34,000. The normal strength would be 31,5000. He paid a tribute to the services of the Air Force on -the nu:-tii-west frontier of India, Mesopotamia. Aden, the hinterland of somaliland and Egypt. He hoped to have seven squadrons of modern aeroplanes in Egypt in April. Aerial photographs of the Nile floods were most useful. It was proposed the Air Force should have one rigid and three non-rigid air-ships, The Colonial Governments were acquiring non-rigid airships for patrol and survey purposes. He expressed pride that the great enterprises of Cairo to Cape, Australian, and Indian flights radiated from England.