GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3573, 8 September 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

o FRENCH PRISONERS OF WAR. A THREAT FROM FRANCE. Received 9.20 a.m. PARIS, Sept. 7. It is reported that the Government has notified Russia that unless French citizens are repatriated by Ist October, naval operations will be instituted in Southern Russia, ÜBIQUITOUS VOTERS. - Received T 9.5 a m. WARSAW, Sept. 7. Germany has four hundred thousand touring in the Plebiscite areas. They voted in Schleswig against Denmark, and were thence transferred to East Prussia and the Vistula to vote against Poland. They are now being transferred to Upper Silesia. These peripatetic voters are supplied with forged documents. WHEN .ALLIES FEARED DEFEAT. LONDON, Sept. 6. Captain Peter Wright, late AssistSecretary to the Supreme War Council, is publisheing a series of articles in "Blackwood’s Magazine,” disclosing the innermost history of the most critical days of the war. He says the exact distance within which Germany came may be put in yards. There were twelve thousand yards separating them from Amiens in 1919, when, racing along the St. Quen-tin-Amiens Road, with artillery and supplies left Hr behind, suffering from hunger, and with little strength left, they ; had victory within their grasp. The Supreme Council held at Donllehs was not sanguine of Saving the position. Marshal Foch outlined p’ans for abandoning Paris, anti Field-Mar-shal Haig for the Uritrslr armies being driven towards the coast. | Mr. Wright gives great credit to Marshal Foch. for hurriedly organising his reserves or a wooded liil 1 in Coin- j piegne. He quotes a letter written by General Haig on March 3, refusing to contribute British divisions towards the Allied reserves which would have saved General Gough’s army. Another letter from General Haig on March 24 appealed for the appointment of a generalissimo. DEATH FROM THE AIR. PARIS, Sept. 7. An aviator in the MOontrogue district crashed into a school yard where a number of children were playing. ( They stampeded and the propeller struck thirteen., killing four instantly and desperately wounding the others. The mechanic was also killed. SWORD BETTER THAN PEN. MONTE TIDED, Sept. 7. The Minister of Public Works, Pittamiglia. slightly wounded Julio Sosa, editor of the "Eldia” in the first duel under the new law legalising 1 duelling. The duel was fought with sabres. BRYAN ON PROHIBITION. CONFIDENT OF WOMEN’S GOOD INFLUENCE. _ NEW YORK, Sept. 6. Mr. Bryan, interviewed, said: "I -want to see the next Congress so strong that it will uphold Prohibition and be able to impeach the President if he does not enforce the Prohibition law. Women wCI be effective in every moral question. Now they are enfranchised they will not penult the resurrection of liquor and will work for the abolition of war. Our failure to enter the League of Nations is a Crime against the world.” BRITISH AMBASSADOR. LONDON, Sept. 7. Newspapers state that Viscount Hardinge, ex-Viceroy of India, has been appointed to succeed Lord Derby as Ambassadcir in Paris. TROUBLE FOR SERBIA. ROM®, Sept. 6. The Messagero states that Croats, Magyars, Hungarians ancT Montenegrins have organised a revolt against Serbia. W Goods’ Gneat Peppermint Cure For Children’* Hacking Coughs, 1/9, 2/8, fj

GHASTLY ATROCITIES. BRUTAL SLAUGHTER OF CHRISTIANS. ATHENS, Sept. 7. Osman Agba carried out a ghastly series of atrocities at Kerasunda against the Christians. He shut up all the males ,and every evening led out five, who were executed. Finally the remaining Christians bought their liberty with a ransom of three hundred thousand sterling.