GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1920, Page 3

GENERAL CABLES.

BRITISH ITEMS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright The total amount (if the naval prize fund at present is £j,ti(Jo,fl()(l, which will suffice to make one share worth oils. ]t : fs officially stated that, the final amount cannot yet be estimated. lr.it some unofficial estimates place 11 o %ures as high as ten millions. The distribution begins forthwithFOREIGN 1 " ITEMS. | There is a general, strike in Alsaee- | Lorraine. 11' c gas supply has ceased at Strassburg, also the trams and newspaper* have not appeared. The Kciio ile Paris learns that the town of Darmstadt has concluded a loan of ten million marks with the Zimmerman hank in New York. This is the first German loan issued abroad since the war. A Frankfurt telegram slates that during the last live days eight battalions of French troops have iiecn withdrawn. The report of the German Parliamentary Committee which is holding an inquiry into the responsibility for llie war will be published to-morrow. It covers the decision of the ex-Kaiser and his advisers and discussions at the Crown Council at Potsdam. The Vorwaerts states that the report contains astonishing revelations. A wireless from Mauritius states that | the steamer Pnlrna is towing the Australinead, which was disabled by heavy seas which swept the docks, carried the mooring rope overboard and fouled the propeller. The Palimi later lost t!ie towline, but is endeavouring to pick it up. AUSTRALIAN 1 ITEMS, There are 25(k Xew Zealand Anzaes about Sydney, and the Anzac Day Committee is invltingthem to march'at the head of the First Australian Division in Sunday's church parade. There are great preparations for Monday's celebrations and public holiday. During the past three' months over 200,00rt head of starving stock has been brought from the drought areas to County Cumberland, where grass is available. It is unofficially stated that the New South Wales State Government, win t--the action of the Federal Government in imposing a totalisator tax. A meeting of unions has been convened by the Xew South Wales Labor Council demanding the release of the twelve members of the Industrial Workers of the World who are prisoners. Advice has been received from Mr. Coombes, who framed the Tides governing track walking in Australia and New Zealand that he has been appointed sole judge of the walking at the Olympic Games. Mr. Hughes has announced that Mr. Watt will represent the Commonwealth at the Financial Conference at Brussels in May. The Senate read the War Gratuity Hill a third time. A proclamation withdraws to a certain extent the restrictions on the transmission of money to Germany. It is estimated that as a result: of the increased price of paper. Australian papers are paving. ,e 4.800,000 more yearly for supplies than they were be- : fore the war.