GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1919, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

PROFITEERING IN FRANCE. By Telegraph.—Press Aasn.—Copyright. Paris, Sept. 10. The Government is intensifying its fight against profiteers and is investigating prices at the big stores. The officials seized books and samples at the leading drapery shops accused of exorbitant charges.—Aus. N.Z, Cable Association. INFLUENZA IN CHICAGO. New York, Sept. 16. A message from Chicago states that theer has been a recrudescence of Spanish influenza. A total of 37 cases nave been reported.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. THE EX-KAISER. Paris, Sept. 10. Mr. Lloyd George insists on the extradition of the ex-Kaiser, and is asking the Peace Council to demand that Holland immediately hand Wilhclm over. HONORING THE DEAD. London, Sept. 16. Following Franco's proposal to honor the 1,,100,000 dead by burying an anonymous Poilu in the Pantheon at Paris, it is suggested that a British private be buried in the cenotaph at Whitehall, which would thus gain a saeredness that is absent while it Temains an empty tomb.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. GOLD FOR BRITAIN. '■Brussels, Sept. 18. Forty million marks in gold was dispatched to-day from Germany to England in payment for foodstuffs. EX-KAISER'S POSSESSION'S. Received Sept. 17, 12.10 a.m. Amsterdam, Sept. 15. The ex-Kaiser's possessions have reached Holland They include art treasures valued at eight hundred thousand sterling. CHINA DECLARES PEACE. Received Sept. 17, 12-10 a.m. Washington, Sept 10. According to official advices received from Pekin, the Chinese Government has issued a mandate declaring peace between China and Germany,—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CHINESE RETURN FROM THE FRONT. Received Sept. 17, 8.55 p.m. Ottawa, isept. 10. The return of thousands of Chinese coolies through Canada from the front to China has begun, at the rate of 10,000 § B^nth.—Auiw^ r .Ca>l6; 4 A*B&