General Cables.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 January 1920, Page 1

General Cables.

colossal tfiAiuJi oi'' victory. L'ans, J anuai'y 27. 'J'lio linked States, is offering France a colossal statue costing a (juarur of u million dollars to comiiieiuutrntc the victory of two Maine. 'J lit! statue is to be erected at Meaux, the ■ extreme point reached by the German advance. AFTER "THE DAW" London, January -• ■ "j lie 1 liter-Allied A"aval Commission | loiimi a strange .speutaclo ol stagnation at Kiel, suggesting the completeness; of ilie overthrow of Germany's naval power. Deserted' warships of all types dotted the harbour, only two cruisers and four destroyers remaining iu commission. A great 32,000-<ton battlesliip, half constructed, is rusting 011 tiie stocks an dims been untouched fur fourteen months. Othor giants lie about with the armour strippe'd off and minus guns and funnels. G-KRAI AN POLITICIANS AT LAW. London, January 24. 'J he- Daily Chronicla's Berlin correspondent says tho fate of the Government hands 011 the issue of the Erz-bersier-Helfferich libel suit, which ha. l - been going on for a weak, and is attracting enormous public attention. Helfferich. t he darling of the PanGermans, lias long pursued Erzeberger with, a pitiless vendetta. He accuse* Erzeberger as being a "political businessman,'.' representing corruption of the worst kind. He drew, according to Helfferich, two thousand a year from the Thyssen Company while in Government employment.

The cast may last a fortnight. .More fresh aeuusatioM are continually boiug made, and are drawing forth long denials. There is much anxiety in Government circles. A GIFT DECLINED. Paris, January 24. 'It transpires 'Unit Mr Lloyd' Georgo, during one of M. Olemonceau's visits to London, suggested that Britain might suitably acknowledge the people'sindebtedness to General'Focli by a gift equal to that voted to General Haig, but M. Clemenceau, on the ground that such gifts were not customary in France, declined-. Lloyd George told General Foch of :his offer. 'Hi,, -latter replied that in the event of the gift he would distribute the money among the French war relief organisations.