GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 November 1919, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

WOMEN AND LABOR. By telegraph.—Press Assn Copyrlcht. London, Nov. 4. The International Conference of Working Women endorsed financial assistance to mothers to enable exemption from work for a period of six weeks before and- after child birth.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE SHANTUNG QUESTION. Wasiiington, Nov. 4The Senate voted down a, motion by Senator Lodge to strike out the Shantung section of the Peace Treaty by 48 votes to 41. —Aus.-NX Cable Assn. ADMIRAL SIMS ON IRELAND. Washington, Nov. 4. Mr. J. Daniels (Secretary for the Navy), refused to regard Admiral Sims' articles in connection with Sinn Fein as a breach of' discipline. Admiral Sims was accorded permission to write a bookThe Navy Department was not responsible for his statement.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DIAMONDS IN AFRICA. Capetown, Nov. 4. A combination of south-west diamond mines, under the auspices of the AngloAmerican Corporation, controlled by Pierpont Morgan, is confirmed. The interests of Deutsche Kolonialu Cesellschaft are also provisionally in the pool. The new company, with 3% million capital, will be registered in Capetown under the title of the CoTisolidated Diamond Mines of South-west Africa. The result is that the control will be changed from Berlin to South Africa.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. AIR FORCE SCANDALS. London, Nov. 3. At the Douglas-Pennant inquiry, Lord Stanhope withdrew the chief accusation of immorality contained in his speech, and added he would apologise to the house of Lords later.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PEACE IN THE CAUCASUS. London, Nov. 3. The organisers of the Armenian Red Cross Fund havte petitioned Mr.' Lloyd George urging that British troops in the Caucasus should not be withdrawn until the Peace Conference has guaranteed the peace of the inhabitants, including three hundred thousand Armenian refugees.— United Service. PROHIBITION IN AMERICA. New York, Nov. 5. The Methodist Church has issued a rebuke to Mr. Gompers for his statement that prohibition was responsible for unrest in the country. GERMAN AIRSHIP MISSING, Amsterdam, Nov. 4. A German airship, with a crew and passengers on hoard stalling SO, failed to make a landing near Berlin during a storm. The airship disappeared in the darkness badly damaged. There is no further news.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.