GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1919, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

LIMERICK PROCLAMATION .-\ WITHDRAWN. London, May 4. The proclamation making Limerick a special military area has been with-drawn.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

FRENCH SOCIALISTS RESIGN. Paris, May 4. There is much unrest as the. result of the May Day troubles. The SociaUsts havß resigned their positions in M. Clemenceau's administration and the Peace Conference, alleging that the Government has brutally forbidden the workers to give expression to?, their views. FRENCILANARCHIST AERESTED. Paris, May 4. The police have arrested the anarchist Cornidlon, friend of the assassin Cottin, outside M. Clemenceau's' residence. He carried dangerous anarchist literature.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

THE LANDRU MURDERS. Paris, May 4. Persons residing in Gambais, close to Landru's villa, declare that on three dates corresponding with the disappearance of three fiancees they saw thick Smoke ascending from the «Ila chimney. A French doctor identified llndru as the man whom he saw bearing a large bundle on his shoulder in the moonlight, which lie threw into a lake. The police are searching . the Cable Assn.

PACT OF LONDON DEFIED. London, May 8. A belated Chronicle message from Athens states that the Greek churches throughout the Dodecanese Mauds proclaimed their union with Greece, defying the Pact of London, which allotted them to Italy. The Italian authorities severely repressed pro-Greek demonstrations, and there were numbers of sanguinary conflicts. Carbineers bayonetted a priest at Rhodes on the steps of his church Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AFGHANS CROSS THE FRONTIER. London, May 8 •It is currently stated that Afghsn. regular forces have Crossed the frontier. It is suggested that the movement is associated with the spread of discontent among those Mohammedans hi India Who have joined the Hindu agitation.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

• A GENERAL AMNESTY. - Melbourne, May fl. The Federal Political Labor Party has resolved to ask the Government to grant a general amnesty to all pplitjcnl and military prisoners, to mark, |thc declaration of peace.—Aiis.-KZ. Cable Assn. PRODUCE BUSINESS PURCHASED, Sydney,-May 0. The Farmers' and Graziers'i Co-opera-tive Company has purchasedthe busines ; s of John Bridge and Co., wool and produce merchants. . The'price is over: ; -;£20.000'.