GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XII, Issue 3640, 29 November 1920, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE ALLIED COMMAND. Received 9.35 a.m. ' • LONDON, Nov. 28. The Sunday Express .publishes a lengthy article narrating how, at discount Milner’s instance, Marshal Foch was chosen on March 2d, 1918, to the supreme command on the 'Western Front, after a protracted discussion at the most momentous gathering held during the war. BRITISH* BUTTER RATION. Received 9.35 a.m. LONDON, Nov. 28. The Sinn Feiners who are interned will receive an ounce of butter daily. The British domestic ration is’still only ounces per head weekly. RACECOURSE SCANDAL. Received 9.35 a.pi. PARIS, Nov. 28. Fumagalli, a racehorse owner, has been warned off the French turf, for doping the filly Sorella at St. Cloud. A TREATY APPROVED. . Received 9.35 a.m. ROME, Nov. 28. The Chamber, by 22(5 votes to 10, approved of the treaty with Jugoslavia. SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS. Received 10.35 a.m. CAPETOWN, Nov. 28. • Parliament will be dissolved at the end of December. The elections will be held in February,,and the new Parliament will assemble in March.

JAPANESE DEFENCES. Received 11.30 a.m. TOKIO, Nov. 28. The Army Estimates for tie forthcoming year total 245,000,000 yen, representing a fifty-per-cent. Increase over last year, and forty million yen will be expended upon new defence schemes. Service in the cavalry and array will be reduced from three years to two years. A DEFENSIVE ALLIANCE. Received 12.30 p.m. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 28. Lettonia and Lithuania have formed a defensive alliance. Probably Esthonia will join them] Lettonia has intimated that she! will assist Lithuania if Zelignowski attacks Kovno. PROHIBITION WITHDRAWN. Received 10.35 a.m. CAPETOWN, Nov. 28. The Government has withdrawn its prohibition on the importation of wheat, flour and wh oatmeal. KIDNAPPED soldiers released Received 10.35 a.m. DELHI, Nov. 28. The Afridis released the two British soldiers kidnapped from Peshawar. The. release was due to political pressure, no ransom having been paid.

GREECE AND SILESIA. LONDON, Nov. 27. Pending the arrival of Signor Sforza, the Italian Foreign Minister, Mr. Lloyd George and M. Leygues exchanged preliminary "views regarding Greece and Silesia. No decision was reached. It is probable that the conference will invite a "representative of the new Greek Government to come to London to discuss affairs in Greece. FOOTBALL ROUGHS. LONDON, Nov. 27. The Ilfracombe Association football ground has been ordered to "be closed for a fortnight and two players are suspended for a week as a consequence of serious mobbing of the referee at a recent The club hjis been directed to engage police for all home matches. . PARLIAMENTARIANS HARD UP. LONDON, Nov. 27. On the motion of Colonel Gibb, the House of Commons appointed a committee to consider salaries and members ’ travelling and other expenses. He complained that it was impossible to live on the presenf salary.