GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 November 1919, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

BERNARD SHAW AND AUSTRALIA. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 10, 5.5 p.m. > London, Nov. 13. Mr. Bernard Shaw 0 states he will not accept the Australian Socialist Party's invitation to lecture in Australia on his own terms. He says he knows of no Socialist Party which is in a position to be so magnaminous as to offer such terms. If it had been a capitalist party he might have believed it possible.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TRADE WITH GERMANY. Revived Nov. IG, 3.5 p.m. London, Nov. 13. German exports to Britain during the eleven and a half months since the armistice are valued at £216,000 and comprise chiefly potash, manures, skins, and leather. British exports to Germany totalled £ 10,000,000.—Au5.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE O'DONNELL COURT-MARTIAL. Received Nov. 10, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 13. Some delay is likely in arranging the G'Donncll court-martial owing to the difficulty of securing the Australian personnel, practically all the competent officers having already returned to Aus-tralia.—-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. TRANSVAAL NATIONALIST CONGRESS. Received Nov. Ifi, 5.5 p.m. Capetown, Nov. 14. Although an amnesty has not been proclaimed several of the late rebel leaders who elected to attend the forthcoming Transvaal Nationalist Congress Lave been notified that the Government has no objection to their taking part.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ' A W T AR INCIDENT. Received Nov. 16, 5,5 p.m. Washington, Nov. 13. It is announced that a German submarine, early in 1918, cut a cable just out of New York. It was spliced by experts. REMOVING RESTRICTIONS ON CAPITAL. Loudon, Nov. 12. Tho Board of Trade has granted a general license under the Defence of the Realm Act, permitting issues of capital. PURCHASE OF A PORTRAIT. London, Nov. 15. The trustees of the Felton bequest have purchased for the National Gallery of Victoria a portrait of the Countess of C'avan, painted in 1751 by Allan Hamsay. ANONYMOUS PEACE OFFERING. London, Nov. 12. An anonymous citizen has refunded £150,000 wortli of funding loan scrip as a peace thanks-offering.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.