GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 171, 6 December 1912, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

THE VALUE OF LANGUAGE.

By Cable—Pnss Association—Copyright,

Ottawa, December 4

At Toronto, ilr. Bourrassa said that it was only the French-Canadians that prevented the Americanisation of Canada. The prevalence of the French language formed the chief barrier against the absorption of American ideas and methods. If English were forced upon the French-Canadians, the result would not be to Anglicise them, but to Americanise them.

FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE. London, December 4.

There has been an outbreak of foot and mouth disease among cattle arriving at Birkenhead from Newry. Irish importations have been prohibited.

THE GRAVES LIBEL ACTION. London, December 4. Baron Graves was awarded £SOO dam

ages against Earl Galloway for libel.

CYCLONE IN MADAGASCAR. Paris, December 4.

During a cyclone in the island of Madagascar many native villages were razed and crops destroyed.

PRINCE HENRY'S.VISIT. Paris, December 4.

It is denied that the visit of Prince Henry of Prussia to London has any political significance.

THE ADVANCE ON TIBET. Pekin, December 4,

General Clurs main army is advancing from Litaiig southward against Tibetans.

THE NANCY BLUNDER.

Paris, December 4,

M. Blion. brigadier of the gendarmerie at Nancy, who," owing to the misreading of a telegram, gave the order for mobilisation, has been complimented on his promptitude.