GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4816, 13 March 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE HALIFAX DISASTER. United Press Association—Coyyriglit Australian and N.Z. Cable Association OTTAWA. March'll. Sir R. L. Borden has cabled to Mr Hughes and Mr. irfassev the thanks of Canada for the receipt of Australia’s and New Zealand’s gifts towards the Halifax relief fund. THE SPANISH GOVERNMENT. Reuter’s Telegrams. MADRID. March 11. The Cabinet has been reconstituted as before. SENSATION IN REICHSTAG. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association AMSTERDAM, March 11. There was a sensation in the German Reichstag. A committee opened an inquiry into allegations that the Empress and the Court Chamberlain. You ]3elir Rimorid, gained two hundred thousand pounds through dealing in munitions. Other inquiries into similar incidents, are pending. HONOR FOR NEW ZEALANDER. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter’s. LONDON, -March 11. The Belgian Croix do Guerre lias been conferred on Colonel C. AY. Melville, of the New Zealand Rifles. TREATMENT . OF AVAR PRISONERS. Australian and N.Z. Caule Association (Received March 12,' 7.15 p.m.) PARIS, March 11. , Reputy Abelferry, . in the Petit Journal, urges tile Government to expose German nobility and bourgeoise prisoners in French hands to the same perils as French women and children suffer. PORTUGUESE CABINET RE- ■ SIGNS'. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Received March 12, 7.15 p-m-) v LISBON, -March 11- . Owing to difference over the Presidential and Parliamentary elections, the Government has resignedM Pacs has formed a new Cabinet. THE SPANISH CRISIS. * Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received March. 12 8 p.m.) • MADRID, March 11. > -Senor Prielo has definitely declined ! to form a new ministry. Conferences of the party leac have been, resumed. NAPLES BOMBED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Rec^cl A number of bombs fell in the centre of Naples .during an air raid, the victims including seven women patients at a hospital.