GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 3 May 1919, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE INDIAN POSITION. N.Z. Cable Association LONI>ON/ April ■ ;}fr. Tile JPnOSjS Bureau has issued tin Viceroy oF India’s■ report to April 2S l b states-tbit in the Punjab five rioter; were killed and 12 \vgro ai4est,fMl i i connection *mth the menu riot a Ohaharkaipm. Alulae '• burned -Bang id lull and yjanpiged r tho Kaillml am Gujerijt ,Pjfih|ay Who cmting couliiutes ia several. •districts otherwise Till is quiet. There is aka ciuiotnepfrat. Amritsar, Lahore. ami Mu .frontier. • The provude o Poshaw,a£ reports that .T,ha, aam-m- a. is cssjtflitially Hindu. At I'eild t!i<; position -is quiet, but it is reporter that, tilt}-;,merchants are cmmrising- pressure on merchants else where by .refusing to honor their money remittances and emissaries Iroiu Del i are stirring up trouble in the Punjab Bombay iy,tpuct. 'I heir leaders so lar have rostra mod tlio Moslems, despiti strong feelings regarding Turkey mu cognate questions. Inflammatory no bices addressed to the troops hav< been posted iu Meerut. RIOTERS SENTENCED. LONDON, May 2. Sixteen persons implicated iu tin Punjab riots were- sentenced to im pmonineub and transportation varyin; from lif.o sentences to seven months in tho north-western States iho damage to-tho railways during tho riot: was £160,000. THE EGYPTIAN PROTECTORATE, LONDON, April 24. The Press Bureau announces the publication by the Foreign Office m the. Note communicated to Genera. Alleiiby on April 22 by the I'nitch States Minister at. Cairo,, announcing that rWesidout Wilson recognises tin British Protectorate over Egypt proclaimed- iu December, 1914. The President reserves for further discussion tin details o#*ihq recognition, along wit’ iho question of the modification of am American rights which the decision may entail. President Wilson ami tin American people have every sympathy with tho legitimate aspirations of till Egyptian people for a further measuis of self-government, hub view with it gret“AfliSleffort to obtain its realisalici by resorL to violence. SYDNEY CITY RATES.

SYDNEY. Bay 2. The City Council has increased its rates &y- .&3 in the £. An analysis shows that in the past 10 yeiirs, while labor employed by the Council Inis increased by .‘MI per cent., the expenditure thereon has increased 1.5G percent. MIGHT TO ENFORCE RIGHT. ~LONDON, May 1. Mr Josephus Daniels, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, was a guest of a luncheon at which tho Duke of Connaught presided. Mr Daniels said that it would lie a calamity worse than a crime if the United States and Untain entered into competition in naval construction, lb was not for tinworld’s good if any national possessed a navy capable of dominating tinworld. Britain with her great Empire needed a great navy, as did America with her huge coastline, Neither country need entertain suspicions regarding tho other. There must never be competition between Bn tain and America. On tho contrary he felfc assured that: there would he a combination of Iho navies as there had been during the war. | SYDNEY MAIL ROBBERIES. | _ , SYDNEY. May 2. Mail robberies are again in evidence. A daring case occurred on the south •coast lilK*:*" a Two men, by means of a faked telephone message, induced the handing over of the mail bags, containing cheques and other valuables worth a considerable amount.'

GERMAN SHIPPING. : ; LONDON, .May 1. In the House of Commons, Rl;. lion, Cecil Harmswortli said Unit idio Goveminent does not recognise the trailsmer of enemy vessels to neutrals. RETURNING THE LOOT. LONDON, April :i(). The ‘Daily ( bromcle’ correspondent •Jit Namur states that there are live hundred barges in the 3teu.se River loaded ..with loot the Gormans had taken from France and Belgium. Millions ol tons ojtdJriis loot have already been received. The barges and trucks are- being unloaded by German prisoners. Goods .which cannot be identified by ■the owners will he sold. Horses ami ■(■•fchor stolen w tock have already fetched £5,000,000.