GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3443, 24 March 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

PEACE TREATY DEFEAT. ATTITUDE OF THE NATION,

Received 9.0 a.m.

NEW YORK, Ma:-3:1 2.1

Comment on the Treaty defeat 15 generally bitter throughout the nation. Newspapers are not ugr.ec:"i- on the culpability, the matter being reviewed according to their partisian feelings.

PETROL PRICES UN CHAN GI-11).

Received 9.0 a.in. NEW YORK, March 21. The price of petrol is unchanged-. TWO YEARS roe ELECTION . FRAUD. Received 9.0 a..m. NEW YORK, March 20. A message from Grand Rapids states that Senator Newberry has been sentenced to «two years’ imprisonment and fined ten thousand dollars on election fraud charges. AMERICA’S LATEST DREADNOUGHT. Received 9.0 a.m. . a NEW’ YORK, March 20. The Maryland, the largest dreadnought in the United States’ navy, has been launched at Newport News. She is of 32,000 tons displacement, and has eight 16-inch guns.

JOINT IMPERIAL GENERAL STAIT.

I’NI'I‘ING TI-IE! TWO SERVICES.

Received 9.30 am.

(Imperial News Service.) LONDON, March 23‘

In the House of Commons in The conmlittee stage on the ‘army estimates, several "speakers strongly advocated the establishment of a. joint Imperial General Sfafl’, to deal with matters rela‘ting to defence of the Empire. ’ 7

Mr Ormsby Gore suggestéd'iin view of our new committmell'ts'under the League of’ Nations, we ought -to have a new organisation under "the War Oflice for the purpose of advising and preparing for the dcfénco of the new territories. v

Mr Churchill pointed out ‘the Committee of Imperial Defence was a great instrument by which the Prime Minister asserted his views and exercised . responsibility over the whole field of military politics. 'l‘he Committee of Imperial Defence would certainly endure, but it was a mistake to suppose any committee could breach the gulf between the services. If the gulf is to be breached between the army and the navy it could only be by building up over a number of years a breed or brand of officers trained in a common staff college," where they acquired the common body of doctrine dealing with the study of war as a whole. The development of such it body of officers was far more urgen.t than any question of uniting _Ministcrs under one head. He intimated that as far as the War Oflice was concerned they would push forward the idea of a joint staff with a. joint stafi college with the utmost energy. AMERICA AND THE TREATY.

WHAT \VILL THE PRESIDENT DO’?

WASHINGTON, March 20.

Senator Lodge has issued the following statement: “The Treaty is goneIt has been rejected by the Senate and sent back to the President, and if he chooses to return it it will have to go through the same process as before. If President Wilson desires ‘to make it an issue in the Presidential campaign, the Republicans are willing to meet the issue.” Senator Hitchcock states: “The result, was what I expected. The Treaty is now before the President, and if there is to be further action he must take the initiative.”

PRESIDENT ‘HOI.D§ THE KEY

WASHINGTON, March 20.

It is pointed out that even if The Senate on Monday adopts Senator Knox’s resolution declaring war with Germany and the United States ended, President Wilson may ignol'o €llO resolution, on the groumds that the c‘onsti'tution empower}. the President. only to proclaim cessation of hOS’filities. There is in feeling that the United States has been isolated by the Senate’s rejection of the Treaty. The United States may probably now withdraw from the Turkish settlement. Nobody seems to know what action President Wilson will take. The United States has not diplomatic consular ofiicers in Germany, Hungary, or Austria, and thus is unable to conduct. diploma.tic business relations with these countries. Negotiations for a new Treaty would take a long time. Meanwhile American trade with the Central Empires is sufiering.