GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 October 1919, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

j VISIT TO ESKIMOS. T ; , By Telegrapa.~Pr«a Assn.—Copyright. ; London, October 21. A Norwegian whaler -which arrived from the Arctic is the second ship to visit the Eskimos in Cumberland Gulf since 1914. The natives suffered greatly* during the war. Being without ammunition they subsisted for years on speared seals and walruses. ' The district was swept by influenzal in but only four deaths occurred. When informed that Britain had won the war the natives held a joy night.—-Renter. ~!-' GERMAN WAE CRIMES, Paris, October 21. The Military Justice Department has prepared a. list of 600 German officers to be court-martialled for war crimes, including the Crown Prince and Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable. Assn. $? TWO VESSELS COLLIDE. " • .New York, October 21. The American tant steamer, George fl. Jones, and the 'British freighter, Chicago City, came into collision in New York harbor. The British vessel was beached in a sinking condition. —Aua.-KZ. Cable Assn.

THE PRINCE OP WALES. > Ottawa, October 21. At Niagara Falls the Prince of Wales presented medals to 30 local war veterans. Thousands of Americans crossed the International Bridge and cheered the Prince even more heartily than the Canadians.—Aus.-NJZ. Cable Assn. GERMANS' SETTLING IN MEXICO. Mexico City, October 21. Evidence of German colonisation plans in Mexico was revealed in the announcement of an enterprise for the irrigation of 200,000 hectares of land on the Puerte River Valley, in Sinnaloa State, where thousands of German iminigrants are expected to buy small par- , eels "of land on a twenty years' payment jjlan, which the German banks in Mexico are backing. NEW SOUTH WALES BUTTER. Received Oct. 22, 8.50 p.m. London, Oct. 21. New South Wales butter won all the prizes in the Colonial classes at the Islington dairy show.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable 'Assn. '■-".