MEXICAN TROUBLE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3481, 8 May 1920, Page 5

MEXICAN TROUBLE.

REBELS VICTORIOUS, NEW YORK, May 6‘

Advices fnom El Paso state that negotiations are Pmceeding for peaceful surrender to-morrow to the rebels, who are massed in the vicinity ready to attack. , CARRANZA HOLDING OUT. MEXICO CITY, May 6. Carranza has issued a manifesto declaring that he will not give up power until the Revolutionists have been defeated, and then only to a constitutionally-elected successor. The manffesto asks for popular support and for an increased" army. SITUATION BECOMING MORE SERIOUS. W'ASHING'BON, May 7. 11; is reported that Conzale, the Mexican Presidential candidate, has occupied Puebla, while Revolutionists in other parts of the country continue to occupy important cities. The Mexican. situation continues to grow more serious. UNCONFIRMED RUMOUR. Received 9.15,a.m. WASHINGTON, May 7. The Mexican revolutionary headquarters reports that Carranza has departed from Mexico City for Vera Cruz overnight, but this is 11ot oflicially confirmed. The Embassy does not believe the report. "declaring the Government forces are well entrenched. ‘

ANGLO-JAPAN ESE TREATY.

CONSIDERABLE MODIFICATION

EXPECTED.

LONDON, May 6.

The Daily Express understands that there will be considerable nlodilications in the renewed Anglo-Japanese Treaty, both countries considering these necessary. There".is ino anxiety in this connection, although the situation is _a trifle delicate in View of the distrust on the part of ‘America, Canada, and Australia regariiing our treaty’ obligations with ‘Japan. .

WORLD SHORTAGE.

WHEN WILL PRICES FALL.

BRITISH FOOD CONTROLLER

WILL NOT VENTURE OPINION.

LONDON, May 6.

In the House of Commons, the Food Minister (Hon. McCu.rdy) said it ought to be realised that last year’s expectations of »a fall in prices were not founded on a solid basis, and ought entirely ot be discarded, He was unable to understand how businessmen and ‘statesmen Couldtuke suchilan .optiniistic view -of the prog'ress of reconstruction of a war-devastated world. There was noprospect of immediate improvement either in the supplies or in the price of sugar required for Great Britain. The world production was down 3—?_. million ‘tons. Rigid rationing in Great Britain resulted in reeonomical consumption of 'suga’r by 700,000 tons, but this was exaictly countevpr.-balanced by increased consumption in the United States. Wheat prices were a most important factor in determining wages all over the world. The world ’s wheat. crops» would be reduced during the forthcoming twelve months. United ‘States’ exportation would be four mil~ lion tons less than in the current cereal year. India was the only wheatproducing country wliere increase was foreshadowed, but one and a-half millions tons of the increase would not be available /to any extent for exportation, He dwelt on the unlikeho-od of a rise in prices in irnpo,rti’ng countries, which would be reflected in the price of every other commodity. {He esti= mated that supplies of butter for Great Britain in 1920 would ‘be 100,000 tons, compared with 200,000 before the war. British butter production was still below the pre-war rate. The Irish supply would also largely fall. There were -no clear signs to enable him to give an estimate when the world shortage. was likely to materially improve.

GENTIEBMAN, ENGLAND!

KIPLING ’S TOAST.

LONDON, April 24‘

Rudyard. Kipling, who presided at the St. George’s Day dinner proposed the toast of “England.” He likened the English to a gun-barrel, welded of different material, but of one temper, and the highest resistence. The English, he said, after trying a succession of racial ingredients, built up a social sysfem with watertight compartments, affording a. refuge..2Tga,inst both tracle unions and profligate Chancellors of the Exchequer. Their strength lay in the continuity of racial experience, unconsciously imposing standards not easily lowered. The English, crippled by the Wastage of a generation, 13ercciveclfl:{a.t the

new world was merely the. old one grown ha.rde.r. The whole weight of the world lies upon England and France, and the sole force available under 3PI-ovidence was not temperament and oppor-funism, but character ingrained and hammered. by COll__flll'iCS of experience. _ ’

DIRECT TAXATION.

INTERN'A.']‘IO’NAI.- PER CAPITA PERCENTAGE.

Received 11.40 a,.m.

(Imperial News Service.)

LONDON, May 7.

In the Commons Mr Lyle asked for a. per capita percentage on direct taxation from Apr-ii. 1914. to Aprfl 1920, respectively, in Brital”n. France, Italy, and the United States. The Chancellc'fi' gives the following approximate figures, currency being converted at par. 111 Britain the average amount of direct taxes per head was: 1914, 31,/; 1920, 303/. In France. November, 1913, was ]3/6; Decemlber, 1919, 47/5. Italy, June, 1914, 12/6; June, 1919, 43/3. United States, June, 1914. 3/5; June 1919, 108/. “ Under the Budget of 1920-21 the British figures would be 287/. Mr Chamberlain declared he gave the figures reservedly, and would not be responsible for any inference drawn from them.