OCCUPATION OF TURKEY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3465, 20 April 1920, Page 5

OCCUPATION OF TURKEY.

FOCH ’S BOMBSH EEL.

Received 10.40 am‘

LONDON, April 19%

The Daily Mail ’s San Remo correspondent states Marshal Foch has prepared a report concerning _\the occupation of Turkish territory under the Treaty, estimating that at least 300,000 troops will be required, which is likely to come as a bombshell upon the conference. The question is, who is to furnish the men? -

M. Poincare, Writing in the Matin, sums up the San Remo programme in six words: Disarm Germany and compel obedience to the Peace Treaty

EX-EMPEROR CARL RETURNS.

Received 11.40 am.

LONDON, April 194

The Daily Mail’s Budapest correspondent reports the ex-Emperor Carl has returned, and is staying at the Royal Palace as the gues't of the Governor. He wishes td disfiuss the claims of his son Otto to the ‘throne.

REDUCTION IN 'MUTTON PRICES.

Received 11.40 hum.

LONDON, April 19.

The Daily Mail understands the price of importedmutton is" again ‘being reduced to lessen the congestion in the docks. - " ‘ " '

BLIZZARDS IN AM ERICA.

Received 10.40 run

NEW YORK, April 18.

Storms andzblizzards are exceptionally severe this winter. In the Middle West twenty Were killed. STRIKE IN _SII£E.‘.SIA. Received 10.40 a.nl, ‘ A ’ BERLIN, 43.91-11 19. The xniuers find siccl xvorkers are joining the general strike in. Silesia, owing to the action of the French Authorities, who thrc-.a.t.en, if the §st.l'ike is executed, to permit Polish ltronps to cross the frontier.

TO TALK WITH MARS.

AMERICAN A;’.I."I‘EMPTS.

Received 11.40 am

NEW YORK, April .19.

Tn;o sel)al'at(3 attempts are being made this week, é under Go-Vex-nmvent supervision, to talk with Mars. Professor David Todd, of Omaha, proposes "to flash a. signal from a balloon at a, record altitude. "

Mr Frederick Milliner will attempt to pick up the ‘xYlys’terious messages by wireless telephone.

A BROKEN MAN

PRESIDENT WILSON AN INVALID.

NEW YORK, April 18.

Senator Hitchcock, in a speech..at Omaha to-day, said President Wilson was an invalid. He was in broken health, depressed in spirit, and l)itter—ly disappointed at the failure of the Senate to ratify the Treaty. He has known nothing but Weakness, weariness and pain since his breakdown last September. President Wilson, of course, made mistakes; He made a mistake when he proposed to negotiate the Treaty without taking a few_ leaders of the Senate into his confi—. dence.;.,_'l‘he ratification of the Treaty would’ have .been easy had he done this. ‘ He la_cked__ tact _, and. foresight. He unwisely 'a_ssu_nled that flt'..he performed his duty the_Sena_te would-do its. dutyand consent to the. ratification of the Treaty, . 1 TO COMBAT ANARCHISM. BUENOS AIRES, April 19. As the result of a convention of South American police authorities, a treaty for adoption _by Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay has been drawn up, provid~ ing that these Governments inform each other of anarchist deeds tending to subversion of social order.