GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 October 1919, Page 8

GENERAL CABLES.

THE ESCAPED SOLDIERS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. London, October 17. The search for the Winchester fugitives continues. The police got on their track owing to the men breaking into a luggage van and ransacking trunks in search of civilian efothes. The police then surrounded a wood where the fugitives were believed to be hiding, but the latter escaped in the darkness.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BIG DIAMOND ROBBERY. London, October 17. A big diamond robbery occurred on the liner Aeneas, which took a largo consignment of diamonds aboard at the Cape. A registered mailbag was found ripped up, and stones weighing a thousand carats were missing.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MAIL STEAMER BURNED. Paris, October 17. The mail steamer Venezia, from Vera Cruz, was abandoned in mid-ocean on fire. The passengers, numbering 280, (ind all the crew were saved. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ROUiMANTA AND HUNGARY. Paris, October 18. The Inter-Allied Miss ion in Budapest demands that the Supreme.Council take vigorous action to force the Roumanians to eomplv with its orders, otherwise the mission should be . recalled. It is pointed out that the Roumanians acknowledged the Mission's authority in August, but have ignored its instructions since.

APPOINTMENT EOT) GENERAL ALLENBY. London, October 17. General Allenby has been appointed High Commissioner for Egypt and the Sudan, vice General Wingate.—Renter. COAL SHORT AT PANAMA. London, October 17. The authorities of the Panama Canal notify that ships from Australia cannot be supplied with bunker coal. They must have sufficient to reach Newport News.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TEE PEACE TREATIES. Berlin, October 18. The German Parliament has' accepted the Polish Treatv. Paris, October 16. Bulgarian delegates have arirved; tliev are instructed to sign the treat/. AUSTRALIAN MTLTTARY OFFENDERS. Received Oct. 19, 5.5 p.m. London, October 18. Mr Justice Darling, at the Dorset Assizes, protested against the action of the prison authorities in handing over three Australians, accused of doinn grievous bodily harm to a publican in Weymouth, to a military escort by whom they were taken to Australia. Mr Justice Darling refused to enter a nolle prosequi and said that if the men ever came back they could be tried. The publican was badly injured.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.