GENERAL NEWS.
BELGIAN NEUTRALITY. By Telegraph,—Press Assn.—CopyiicUt. Brussels, Dec. 19. The Belgian Government ha« declined the Allies' proposals to re-establisli Belgium's neutrality on the old lines. England and Fiance offered to guarantee her territorial integrity for live years on condition that Belgium promised aosolute neutrality. It is understood that Belgium requires either safe strategic frontiers or adequate military safeguards.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. STATISTICAL CONFERENCE. London, Dec. 19, The Statistical Conference, at which Mr. Knibbs represents the Commonwealth, will open on January 20.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
AN APPEAL CASE. London, Dec. 19. The House of Lords has reserved judgment on the Crown's appeal for the restoring of the sentence in a ease heard in Chester in October last in which a man waa sentenced to death for the murder of a 13-year-old child while he was drunk. The man's name was Beard. In announcing the reservation of judgment the Chancellor stated that the Home Secretary had intimated that in any case the death sentence would not be carried out. THE AMERICAN TRUST. Washington, Dec. 19, ,
' The packers have been given two years in which to complete the dissolution of the trust. The firms concerned are five controlling and 574 subsidiary concerns; they had interests in 188 others. Armours', Swift, Cudachy, Wilson, and Grey, within the past fifteen years, have increased their capital from 92 million dollars to 479 millions. Thev have paid 105 million dollars in dividends in the same period. They had total sales and controlled 22 out of the 50 existing American stockyards. Louis Swift, president of the Swift Company, in a statement, says: "We have already made a dissolution of our packing business in Australia and South Africa."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
AMERICA AND PEACE. Washington, Dee. 19. Senator Hitchcock asserted that President Wilson would never accept the Treaty with ' Senator Lodge's reservations, but that he would probably accept a compromise.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. -JAPAN AND CHINA Tokio, Dec. 19. It is announced that the Cabinet has decided to send a strong protest requesting China to control the anti-Jap-anese movements which have assumed large proportions in Shanghai, Nanking, Wooehang, Hankow arid other cities in the- Vangtsc region.
THF PROBLEM OF FltfM*. London, Dec. 19. Morning Post messages from Agram state that, the Finnic Municipal Council passed a resolution protesting against D'Annunzio's occupation of the eity D'Annunzio thereupon harangued the citizens, who hissed him.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19191223.2.46
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1919, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
390GENERAL NEWS. Taranaki Daily News, 23 December 1919, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.