GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3462, 16 April 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BOXING. MATCHING CARPENTIER. AND GIBBONS. Received 9.0 ao.m. NEW YORK, April 17. Promoter: Mike Collins, of Minneapolis, has offered Carpentier 4000 dollars to meet Tommy'Gibbons in a 'lo—round bout. ' LABOUR IN AMERICA. WORSE OFF THAN BEFORE VVAR.

Received 9.0 a.m

NEVV YORK, Apl'il 14

Mr Samuel Gompers, in a. statement at Cleveland, said the conditions of the workers in the United States were Worse financially than before the war. No wond'pl-, therefore, they were becoming impatient and disregarding the discipline usually practised by the Labour Unions,

ATTEMPT ON CARRANZA’S LIFE»

Received 9.0 a.m

MEXICO CITY, April 14.

An unconfirmed report states an attempt was made to assassinate President Carranza on 9th April.

RESUMPTION OF TRADE WITH RUSSIA. .

Received 9.0 a.nl. * WASHINGTON, April 14.

It is. stated a commercial .firm«has offered’ to forward "American goods to Russia under the British flag, and that the feeling in the United States is intense for a resumption of trade with Russia through the lifting of the blockade. ~-,r.*' tr‘ ‘

U.S.A, AND PEACE TREATY.

AN IMPORTANT RESOLUTION‘

Received 9.0 a.ml

WASHINGTON, April 14‘

Senator McCumbel- introduced a sulbstitute Peace resolution, in which no reference was made to the Treaty of the League of Nations, but resumption of the conimercial pre-war status between the United States and Germany declared. Senators pointed out this would leave the Senate free to ratify the Treaty and League Without conflicting with the terms of the Peace resolution.

AMERICAN RAILWAY STRIKE.

LENIN’S HAND DISCLOSED.

WASHINGTON, April 14.

The Attorney--General reported to the Department of Justice that he had infoi-mation showing that Lenin’s Russian communist internationale is undertaking to use lhe railroad strike as a vehicle for the creation of a mass strike in the United States. Information before Cabinet disclosed that '-the Communist Party is ‘financing and otherwise aiding the strikiethrough the agency of the Independent Workers of ‘the World. Evidence justified the statement that the aid is for the mass strike to be follotved by revolution. Hundreds of civilians are being drilled to handle food trains to supply cities. Mr Sanderson, manager of the Baldwin Locomotive Works, and Mr J. P, Morgan, .Tunr., are among the prominent men assisting to keep them moving, the former -as a driver and Morgan as a fireman. A dozen trains are marooned in the Californian desert. Evidence received the State Department indicates that Russian Com~ munists are financing the strike of the American Railway Brotherhood.

AUSTRiAN AND BU LGARIAN TREATIES. .

DISCUSSED IN HOUSE 013‘ COMMONS.

LONDON, ‘April 14.

In the Commons, if moving the second reading of a Bill providing for carrying into efl’ect the Austrian and Bulgarian treaties, Mr Hhrmsworth emphasised the diffieulties in Austria.’s ease owing to the break up of the Empire. The principle of self-deter mination had not been greu.-'*:ly viola.ted, although the German population, numbering a quarter of a million in the Tyrol, ‘were included within the

new fronfier of Italy. This was due

to ‘LII6 jprinciplé"tha.{; strategic necessity must be recognised. The situation on the Jugo-51557 froutTic~.- was for the moment, too dc-lie:Lt.e for }7-fofitablc discussion.

Regarding reparations, Mr Harmsworth said since Itlle armistice the Allies had acted with unparalleled magninimity toV\7§r<l‘s their former enemies. The most important article in the Treaty was giving Bulgaria access to the Aegean Sea, which had not yet -been definitely settled. Mr Asquith sa_id’That no State in Europe had less justification for join» ing the Central Empires in the war war than Biilgaria. She came at the most. cl'i’fic,al nxoiiientl of the struggle, ‘and Bulgaria must bear heavy responsibility for prolongation of the war. '[‘herefol'e the Powers generally had not dealt harshly with her. Mr Asquith uttered a warning against the ‘risk of the Balkanisation of Austria. He criticised the absence of provision for ‘eomniercial intercourse between the new States. It was all important that we should re-create economic unity. The Allies should insist on the disal'lnament of new States with a View of =safoguar‘Lhilig the peace of Eastern Europe. Mr Bonar Last’; replying to the debate, agreed that it was deplorable the way small States ‘were arming, but they were independent States, and any attempt to limit armaments would not be tolerated. He admitted that unless limitation -of armaments was brought about the war Would. have been fought, to a large extent, in vain. The League of Nations Covenant was embodied in these Treaties, and it was the duty of the Government rto do its utmost "to make the League effective. The second reading was carried by (.88 votes to 34.