GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3616, 1 November 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

ADDITIONS TO NEW YORK ZOO.

> NEW YORK, Oct. 29. The steamer Bellbuckle has arrived from Sydney, bringing four thousand speciments of Australian animals, birds and reptiles consigned to the New York Zoological Park.

JOHN McCORMACK INJURED.

ONE LEG BROKEN

BOMBAY, Oct. 28. John McCormack, the tenor, broke a leg while playing deck games on board the steamer Naldera. ARCHBISHOP MANNIX. HIS MOVEMENTS INDEFINITE. ;v-i, r - *&» LONDON, Oct. 28. After Mc Sweeney's funeral Archbishop Mannix returned to Portsmouth, where he has made a prolonged stay with Bishop Cotter since his reception on September 23. Archbishop Mannix has not made any definite arrangements to visit Rome or return to Australia.

INTER-ALLIED COMMISSION. GERMAN 'PLANES AND 'DROMES. NOT TO BE DESTROYED. .Received 8.40 a.m. ' j LONDON, Oct, 31. The Inter-Allied Aviation Commission has consented to -waive the dei struction, under the terms of the Peace Treaty, of nine military aerodromes, and four seaplane and three airship harbours in Germany. Fifteen per' cent, of the privately-owned aviation buildings used for military purposes during the war will be left standing. The aerodromes are to be used for international civil aviation, the Allies taking precautions to prevent their use,for military purposes.

Received 9.10 a.m.

COPENHAGEN, Oct. 31. . Advices received in Copenhagen from Berlin state that the Inter-Allied Air Traffic Commission has removed the ban from the German air traffic companies'foreign services, but enforces the prohibition of the use of former military aeroplanes. TRAINS IN COLLISION. THIRTY PERSONS INJURED. Eecelved 8.40 a.m. • PARIS, Oct. 31.. A railway collision near Chatres, by which a train from Paris to Brest, and one from Chatres to Bordeaux were wrecked, The driver of the latter was killed, and thirty persons injured.

THE GREEK MONARCHY. PRINCE PAUL'S RENUNCIATION. Received 8.40 a.m. PARIS, Oct. 31. Le Matin's Geneva correspondent says the Greek Minister at Berne visited Prince Paul in Lucerne, and notified him that he had been called to the Throne. Prince Paul later communicated to the Minister a reply, refusing the Throne, which he declared his father had never renounced and to which the Crown Prince George had a prior claim.

•HELIGOLAND'S RIGHTS. PREFERENCE FOR BRITAIN. Received 8.40 a.m. 'LONDON, Oct. 31. As the result of the Prussian Government terminating the Anglo-German agreement of 1890, under which Heligolanders enjoyed a number of privileges, including fishing rights, fifty Islanders have appealed to the British nation, declaring that they would prefer to be under the British flag and requesting the British Government to see that their rights, are maintained. GERMAN DISARMAMENT. NOT FULLY CARRIED OUT. Received 9.10 a.m. BERLIN, Oct. 31. The Allies' Disarmament Commission has sent a Note to Germany asking when she is prepared to demobilise all her self-defence organisations, pointing out that the Bavarian volunteer defence force is still not demobilised.

POLAND AND LITHUANIA. PROPOSED PLEBISCITE. TROOPS TO' BE WITHDRAWN. LONDON, Oct. iSJ. The Council of the League of Nations' effort to settle the Polish-Lith-uanian dispute, owing to Polish occupation of Vilna, requested the two Governments concerned to agree to a plebiscite under €he control of the League, whereby inhabitants of the disputed territory would be able to signify whether they belong to Poland or Lithuania. ; . ; •i 1 A-ill be withdrawn during the plebiscite. The Council requests the Polish and Lithuanian Governments to state whether they will agree to this proposal within ten days from to-day, ASSISTANCE FROM GERMANY. Received 8.40 a.m. RIGA, Oct. 31. Polish newspapers report the discovery of a recruiting office at Kovno for German volunteers from East Prussia. Rifles, machine-guns an:l munitions were being transported so Lithuania from Germany by lorry and railway.

ZELIGNOWSKI'S NOTE IGNORED. POLISH TROOPS ADVANCE. j yr- ■■■ . .w ... • Received 9.10 a.m. COPENHAGEN, Oct. 31. The Berlingski Idendes Kovno corre-, spondent states that the Lithuanians having ignored Zelignowski's note, the Poles attacked strongly in the direction of Wewic, capturing the town of Gedrsitsche and breaking the Lithuanian front between Maljaty and 01jany. The Lithuanian general staff declares that Polish troops in Lithuania now total fourteen divisions, and are threatening a big offensive against Kovno; and also concentrating round Augustowo Limza.