LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3594, 5 October 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fedoy Lepper, a young German officer, was arrested at San Sebastian for embezzling- £37,000 belonging to the German Commission sitting in Paris in connection with the repatriation of German war prisoners. Colonel Braithwaite, brother of Lilian Braithwaite, the actress, has married Lady Blanket, widow of the late Lord Plunk et, ex-Governor of New Zealand.

The final batch of Germany’s surrendered warships—the Lubeek, Stet-„ tin, Danzig, Augsburg and Munchen—have arrived in the Firth of Foii ,h.

Greece, Roumania an 3 Servia have asked Bulgaria to sur,render seven hundred accused of war time atrocities, including ex-King Ferdinand, Generalissimo Jekow, and the civil leaders of the Macedonian Dobrudscha movement.

A typhoon on the eastern coast of Japan resulted in the death of scores of persons and widespread property damage. One hundred and twenty were injured and four Ruled at Kokohama. Thousands of houses were flooded in Tokio. Reports from the provinces state that railroad and telegraphic

communications are interrupted

A. member of the British Whop : Commission, in a speech, stated tha proapoets for wheat supplies wive very hopeful. The margin available was estimated at a million metric tons. It was hoped that supplies would bo such ns to bring down the world!s prices early in 1921, opening up the prospect of no further rise in bread when, the subsidy ceases.

According It o a message to New York from Berlin, it is reported that Japan is buying from Germany over a dozen Diesel motors of 2000 horsepower, ostensibly for stationary engines, but essentially the type used in the German submarines and easily convertible. No information is obtainable from the Diesel Company.

The Foxton Municipal Chambers

were totally destroyed by fire yester day.

A six-roomed house with free fire wood, and land given in if required is to let at 10/ per week.

Board and lodging is required from Saturday afternoon till Monday morning about three times a month by a non-smoker.

A suburban passenger (rain collided with a motor waggon at a level crossing at Newmarket yesterday. The driver of the waggon, Robert Skelton, was badly bruised and shaken.

Auckland .gas supply is still cut off on account of the coal shortage, and a full resumption of the service is not expected within about ten days. So many industries are affected that hundreds of workers are out of employment.

The British Government has prohibited the entry of the “Dany Herald” into India owing to the growth of Bolshevik propaganda. The ” Daily Herald” is the Labour daily published in London. It has lately been, much discussed owing to the revelations of an offer of £75,000 made by the Russian Soviet Government.

About midnight on Saturday, it was discovered that a piake glass windov. in J. E. Thomson’s jewellery shop, George Street, Dunedin, had been broken and rings valued at £75 stolen. The thief must have been disturbed, as diamond rings and valuable watches to the value of £250 were within reach and were left untouched. An empty bottle lying alongside the window has distinct fingerprints, and these have been preserved.

A Taihape sheepfarmer has shown us an elaborate statement: of his account in connection with the distribution of surplus wool profits. Everything was clearly set out in the statement, -which was really a creditable piece of work, and which was accompanied by a cheque fo,r one shilling and threepence! as his share of the surplus wool profits. It would probably cost the "responsible department! a great deal more than the amount of the cheque to compile the statement which accompanied it.

It is understood the United States will suggest at the Internaltional Communications Conference on'October Bth that German cables should not. be given to any particular nation, but should be made part of a world system of communication, available for use by all countries on terms of equality. It is believed the United States will propose a plan for the administration of the cable systems of the world along the lines of the International Postal Union and -attempt: to effect better cable and-wireless communication with Italy and remoter parts of the British Empire.