GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 8 September 1919, Page 6

GENERAL CABLES.

By Telejraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrielit. London, Sept. 4. It is understood that the heads of departments have completed the report demanded by Mr Lloyd George, but the most expensive departments point out that they cannot estimate the iinal reductions until the policy is settled. The Government has agreed to give cash advances to a maximum of SO per cent of the cost of goods destined lor Poland, the Baltic provinces, Czechoslovakia, Jugo-Slavia, and certain Kussian areas. Lord Fisher returns to the charge regarding the .Admiralty's lack of foresight. He says that the Admiralty was busy formulating precise regulations for officers' dress when their hearts should have been filled with internal combustion engines*. Lord Fisher says that he desires to repeat emphatically that the fleet will be obsolete in a few .years.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Brussels, Sept. 4The Dutch Government has detained river vessels and cargoes seized by. the Belgians in the occupied zone on the ground that they were stolen by the Germans. Holland requests Belgium to restore them, but Belgium demands the release of the vessels and threatens re-prisals.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. Paris, Sept. 5. Padercwski, speaking to an American interviewer, said that Germany, defeated in the west, was turning hopefully to the east and urging the Bolsheviks on in every way to harass Poland. Poland has few supplies and Mttlo clothing, and until the United States ratifies the treaty little can be done Aus:-N.Z. Cable Assn. Paris, Sept. 5. Armenian advices state that the Turkish staff southward of Erivan is directing an encircling movement by Tartars' and Turks against the Armenian Ke-public—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. London, Sept.'s. The Ministry of Munitions is not issuing the promised medal to munition workers, on the ground that the whole country's resources have been devoted to war work, and it is therefore difficult to differentiate between the different classes of war workers.—Aus-X.Z. Cable Assn.