GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1918, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES.

GIBRALTAR: SPAIN'S DESIRE. Paris, Dec. 21. It is reported that the Spanish Premier will attend the peace conference and urge the return of Gibraltar to Spain. The latter i 3 willing to concede Ceuta, on tlie Moroccan side of the Straits, to Britain in exchange as of equal value strategically.—Reuter. SUBSIDISING SHIPPING SERVICES. Montreal, Dec. 21. Canada is providing for the renewal of the subsidies ,to steamships between Canadian and Atlantic ports and Australasia, to the Royal Mail and New Zealand shipping companies. HUNGARIAN;, PREMIERSHIP. Berne, Dec. 21. Count Karolyi, addressing the Hungarian Cabinet, announced his intention to resign the Premiership.

ILLICIT TRAFFIC. " Shanghai, Dec. 21. The North China Daily News makes sensational allegation as to enormous Illicit traffic in morphia and Indian opium done by the Japanese in China, and affirms that eighteen tons of morphia were imported into China from Japan, and distributed by the Japanese post office and Japanese pedlars.—Reuter.

FUNERAL OF PORTUGUESE PRESIDENT. Lisbon, Dec. 23. The funeral of Senhor Paea, the late President, was an imposing ceremony. The chief feature was the universal character of the mourning. Thousands of poor women, orphanage children, and hundreds of representative workers followed the coffin-—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc,