GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 December 1919, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

,— : ——. ■ i| HIGH PRICE OF COAL. ,| By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Dec. 1, 5.5 p.m. Paris, Nov. 27. The French Government has protested to tbe British Government against raising the export price of coal. GERMAN PEACE COMMISSION. Paris, Nov. 26. The Berlin Tageblatt states that the commission will return to Paris after receiving fresh Government instructions. ALLIED WAR PRISONERS. Brussels, Nov. 2S. A Belgian soldier, accompanied by three of the Allies, has arrived in a pitiable plight from a German prison in the Hartz mountains. They declare there are still a number of Allied war prisoners there, utterly ignorant that the war is over. T_HE BULGARIAN TREATY. Paris, Nov. 27. The Bulgarian treaty includes provisions for the surrender of Thrace by Bulgaria, the cession of the territory Within the bend of the Strumnitza and a belt of territory on the Serbian frontier in the north-west, also the reduction of the army to 20,000 men and the payment of 2,250 million francs (90 million sterling) as reparation.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. WOOLWICH ARSENAL. London, Nov. 28. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at Woolwich, intimated that, in view of the world's shortage of railway rolling stock, the arsenal would be made a great locomotive centre. Orders were already in hand for the construction of a thousand locomotives and 2500 wagons. AN UNDESIRABLE DEPORTED. New York, Nov. 26. The Department of Labor has announced that Alexander Berkman will be deported. AUSTRIAN SOCIALISTS. Vienna, Nov. 28. After two days' discussion the executive of the Socialist Party passed a resolution defining the Socialist victory at the election' as an act of complete solidarity -with the Russian Soviet Republic and an order' to the Government to recognise the Soviet executive. They insist that the Socialist group will participate in the opening of Parliament and make an anti-monarchial demonstration.