GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3459, 13 April 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

AFG-HAN RELATIONS.

WA RNING TO AMIR.

DELHI, April 11.

liepresentaiives of the Afghan Government: are on f'i':T3il‘ way to Inflia, with the object of discussing questions with the British authoi-ities at the Rawalpindi. The conference made it perfectly clear that the Amir must show good faith by his actions before the oltimferiendly relations were resumed. The situation in Afhayniston has been obscure for some time. It is unquestionable that Afghanistan infrigues played an iinportaut part in the recenf frontier fighting. The 801shevik mission is still being entertained at Kabul.

It is difficult to see how any pet-,-mlment, airrangemcnts can be entered into with represerftfiives of Afghanistan. from a. mili't:lry point of view. l.i.t’rlc is to be feared from Bolshcvik 1}”-oats against: India. Afghanistan, however, has an ext‘remcly vulnerable t‘ron’rior, and could not muster sllfi'icient. forces to oppose a Bolshevik (1(1‘.-"clll('.-C. Britain’s undertaking to protect. Afghanistan against foreign aggression has lapsed, but India could hardly View Bolshevik success with oqurmimity. A SENSATIONAL STORY. LONDON, April 12. A sensational story is current in’ Edinburgh concerning a GermanRussian attempt to import tanks, ammunition andarms into Ireland. It is alleged that two vessels are under ‘Admiralty surveillance in a Scottish port owing to the discovery of a whippet tank, cleverly camouflaged, and arms concealed among the bunker coal. There was an attempt to trans; fer the sinister cargo from a German vessel to a Russian ship in the hope that the latter would not be a. suspect. This led to the discovery.

UQS.A. RéILWAY STRIKE‘

THE WHOLE COUNTRY AFFECTED.

NEW YORK, April 12.

Reports fl'Ol_]l St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, Columbus, Cleveland, Detro-it ,San Francisco, and San Diego indicatethat the strike-‘is crippling railway services throughout the whole country. Passenger ‘trains from New York are leaving hours late. Tramway systems. in cities near New York are being affected, and freight nloVements are uncertain. The food supply of many cities is threatened. The actual strikers only number about 50,000 (5000?)_, but 75,000 railroad workers are idle. ‘The strikers are mostly switchmen and firemen. ' FRIENDS TO THE RESCUE.LONDON, April 11. The American Society of Friends is making plans to provide daily food for 100,000 to 150,000 mothers and children in Germany by the signature to a twenty-five million guilders contract made at the Hague for the purchase of foodstuffs for Germany. DUMP BLOWN UP. BERLIN, April 11. A munitions dump at R-otenstein’. near Konigsberg, has been blown up. Thirty explosions have occurred. Two liundred wounded have already been rescued. There are many dead, but the number is unknown, owing to the danger of approaching the dump. AERIAL FLIGHT TO AUSTRALIA. CAPTAIN MATTHEW ’S EFFORT. Received 10.20 am. - BATAVIA, April 12. Captain Matthews is leaving Wiltevredin on Vvednesday morning, without -calling at Sourabya, flying straight to Bima, which is not obnnected telegraphically, so that Matthews may arrive in Australia at the weekend, without further notice of his movments, provided he does not change his idea and land elsewhere.

ALLEGED M ESSAGES FROM . MARS.

MARC‘.O‘NI TRYING TO SOLVE PUZZLE. Received 9.20 am.

LONDON, April 12.

The Daily Mail states the steamer Ellettra is- ready to start on a Mediterralleall voyage fitted with a, Wonderful Wireless calbin, wherein Marconi intends to try to fathom the secret of the mysterious messages recently recorded, and suggested as emanating from Mars. He win also endeavour to solve the problem of applying wireless to the prevention of sea collisions.- Thirty assistants accompany Marconi, and the trip will last three months.

Récono GOLD NUGGET.

Received 9.20 am.

LONDON, April 12.

The “African World.” states the biggest; ‘gold nugget in the world has been received by the Banque Congo Belge, London, for sale on behalf of the Belgian Government. It was found ii: the Kilo State Mines in Belgian Congo,'whose yield of alluvial gold last year exceeded eighty thousand ounces, and extensive reefs have been discovered in the neighbourhood.

TERRIBLE CONDITION or: GERm°AN CHILDREN.

Received 8.40 am.

LONDON, April 11%

The Daily Chronicle’s Berlin correspondent ‘states that food supplies are worse than in 1919. Prices of'imported foods have increased threefold. Tuberculosis among the children has trebled during the past few months. Statistics compiled by neutrals show that 21,000 out of 475,000 Berlin children are suffering from tuberculosis; 77,000 from various diseases due to under feeding; and one hundred thousand are unfit to receive instruction owing to underfeeding. The figures for forty-three large towns show that two hundred thousand children are suffering from tuberculosis and 860,000 are badly underfed.