GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 January 1920, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

NEW FRENCH CABINET. New York, Jan, 19. M. Millerand has formed a new French Cabinet.—Reuter Service. OFFICER COMMANDING MESO POTAMIA. Allahabad, Jan. 20. Lieut.-General Sir V. Haldane has been appointed Officer Commanding in Mesopotamia.

AEROPLANES FOR AMERICA. Washington, Jan. 17. The Military Committee of the House of Representatives has introduced a Bill asking for appropriations of 15,680,000 dollars for the purchase of airplanes. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

AMERICA NOT "AT PEACE." Washington, Jan. 17. Mr. R. Lansing (Secretary for State) has instructed all American diplomatic and consular officers that official and unofficial relations with German-Americans remain unaffected by the ratification of the Peace Treaty by other Powers. The United State 3 considers the armistice continues in full force.—Aus.JST.Z. Cable Assn.

LOSSES ON ARMISTICE DAY. Washington, Jan. 20. Replying to charges that American troops were sacrificed in needless fighting on Armistice Day, General Hunter Liggott, in evidence before the War Investigation Committee, declared that it was impossible to stop the troops owing to the position they held astride of the Meuse. The forces acted under Marshal Foch's instructions and subordinates were unable to interfere.—AusN.2. Cable Assn.

PROHIBITION IN AMERICA. Washington, Jan. 18. Fourteen hundred special prohibition agents have been appointed throughout the United States to enforce the new law. All holders of liquor, except in private houses for personal use, must immediately report all their stocks. What will become of the 60 millions gallons of liquor, estimated to be in storage, will be decided by Congress. Prohibitionists are demanding its destruc-tion.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.

MORE GERMAN RIOTS. London, Jan. IC. Advices from Aix-la-Chapelle state that there were riots yesterday in the neutral zone opposite the Belgian sector on the right bask of the Rhine. Strikers stormed the town hall at Hambourne, pillaged; food supplies "and seized the arms of the police. There was rioting also at Sterkrado and Topai. The military fired, killing and wounding several Sparlacists. The German Government, with the permission of the Belgian authorities, sent military reinforcements to the neutral zone'.—Renter.