GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3614, 29 October 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

BOLSEHVISM IN RUSSIA

RIGA INTERVIEW REPUDIATED.

LONDON, Oct. 26

Mr. H. G. Wells has. arrived in London. He denies the Riga • interview and his scheme for. rescuing Russian intellectuals. Mr.,Wells says that despite six years' war, there is much order and courage in Russia.

(Mr. H. G. Wells, the welhknown writer, was credited with having stated that he found Russia in a horrible condition, and that he was trying to evolve a scheme to save the remnant of the intellectuals of. Russia.)

ANTARCTIC EXPLORATION.

THE COPE EXPEDITION.

Received 8.50 a.m

NEW YORK, Oct. 28,

Commander Cope has announced that the British Imperial Polar Expedition to* the Antarctic will leave Norfolk, Virginia, for Monte Video, on the 29th, going thence to Wellington. The expedition will particularly study the influence of Antarctic conditions upon Australia and South Africa.

BAD TIME FOR S'OVIET,

MARTIAL LAW AT MOSCOW

Received 8.50 a.m. PARIS,,Oct. 28

The Echo de Paris reports that martial law has been proclaimed in Moscow, and wholesale arrests of Wrangel's partisans have been ordered.

• ' BRITAIN AND GERMANY,

RENUNCIATION OF REPRISALS.

FRENCH PRESS STILL HOSTILE

Received 8.50 a.m.

PARIS, Oct. 28.

The newspapers continue their hostile' criticism of Britain's renunciation of reprisals against Germany. *

M. Gustave Herve says it is no longer a question of sentiment, and urges France to imitate England. •Le Petit Parisienne says: ."The other Allies will be forced to follow Britain; otherwise they willi be forced from the German market.?

SYLVIA PANKHURST SENTENCED.

SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT,

Received 8.50 a.m

LONDON, Oct. 28

Sylvia Pankhurst was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the second division.

A TALE OF THE SEA

AMERICAN DESTROYER'S EXPEEIENCE.

Received 8.40 a.m.

LONDON, Oct. 27

A 'dramatic story is tolcf of the experience of the American destroyer Broom at. Kiel. The destroyer was ordered to the assistance of the battleship Pittsburg, which was ashore at Kiel. On her arrival the Pittsburg was refloated, but the Broom was instructed to stay. The German Admiral ordered the Broom to leave, as America was still at war with Germany. The American officer replied that he had orders to stay. "If you stay, I open 'fire."" responded the German. "Open fire: but here I stay till I am blown, out of the water/' replied the American officer. The Broom is still at Kiel unharmed.

THE GREEK ELECTIONS. STRUGGLE BETWEEN RIVAL FACTIONS. VENIZELISTS AND MONARCHISTS. Received 8.40 a.m. ATHENS, Oct. 28. Additional significance attaches to the Greek efeotions, which have developed into a final struggle betwefen Venizelists and the supporters of Constantino. Efforts are being made to enthrone Paul, who arrives in Athens from Lucerne on November 1. He, however, has not yet received a formal invitation to assume, the Crown. Constantine's staff is feverishly active pushing his claims. Constantino maintains that he is the rightfcl scecessor lo^Alexander.