GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 March 1920, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

AMERICA WANTS THE BERMUDAS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—CopjrrieUt. New Yorkj March 1. Mr. Kenyon proposed in the Senate that the United States acquire the Bermudas in partial liquidation for the British war debt.

FIGHTING IN ASIATIC TURKEY. London, March 4. The Turks recently threatened to prevent the Allies moving troops to Exisrnid, 55 miles east of Constantinople, but immediately gave way on the arrival of the" British cruisers and troops and the warning that force would be used unless the Allied orders were immediately complied with. French troops have reoceupiud Marash. Nationalists in Cilicia are endeavoring to stir up aimed risings against the French. ACCIDENT TO ATLANTIC STEAMER. New York, March 4. | The steamer St. Paul, en. route to Southampton, lias sent a wireless message that owing to trouble with her boilers she is returning to Halifax. The steamship carried 7:!9 passengers and crew." POOD SITUATION IN ITALY. Rome, Feb. 2fl. Signor Ferrari explains that the resumption of rationing and the drastic restriction of food imports in Italy is intended to .prevent an economic crisis resulting in a catastrophe. Everyone is preaching economy, but none practising it, so the Government determined to suppress unnecessary expenditure and enforce the cultivation of land. Lignite is obtainable in Italy as a substitute for imported coal —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.