GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1388, 21 November 1918, Page 6

GENERAL CABLEGRAMS.

LORDS AND COMMONS. CONGRATULATIONS TO HIS MAJESTY. [Bor Press Association.] BONBON, Nov. IS. In (lie House of Uommoiis, Mr Bonur f.uw, on behalf of Mr Lloytl George, who is slightly indisposed, moved a resolution congratulating the King on the conclusion of the armistice and the prospects of a victorious peace. War had broken the,crust whereon civilisation had rested. Europe was seething with revolution, nevertheless, we were able to look to the future with hope, courage and confidence, because our institutions were based on (lie strongest foundations, namely the consent of flic nation. None of these institutions was stronger than the. Throne, it was a link which kept the Empire logethor and made the union closer. But the Throne would have been much less strong but for the character of ils occupants. He paid a tribute to the whole-hearted and unselfish devotion of Hie King and Queen throughout the war to the task to which the nation was devoted. When kings wore rapidly disappearing like phantoms, our King was everywhere meeting with tributes of respect, devotion and affection. Those phantom kings fell because they had placed 1 heir state on an imaginary divine right. Our King rested'secure because the foundation of the Throne was the will of (he people. Air Asquith said that principalities and powers, which had been apparently inviolable and invincible, and which seemed 1o dominate a large part; of mankind, lay in the dust. All things had become new in the crash of thrones which had been built some on unrighteousness, and some propped, up by iho brittle threadwork of convention. But Hie Bril ish Throne has stood unshaken, based on the people s will, and reinforced by the living example of the King and his Consort, who hud always shown that they would not be ministered unto, .but were there to minister.

The resolution was adopted with unanimous enthusiasm. A similar resolution had been! adopted by the House of Lords. PROJECTED COUP THAT FAILED.

THE HAGUE, Nov, 19. Newspapers publish a seaman’s letter detailing the projected coup of October Mist. Commanders had ordered the fleet to be ready to put to sea on Wednesday. Suddenly this was postponed until Thursday. Then the commander of the battle squadron boarded the writer's ship, and the crow wore paraded and informed that something deplorable had happened. Crews of many of the ships extinguished their fires when they were ordered to make for the sea, declaring that they would obey other orders, but refused to participate in a battle of desperation against the British Fleet. The officers intended to stake everything on a battle, and blow everything to smithereens rather than surrender. Loyal ships were ordered to train guns on the mutinous vessels, but the, mutineers were not terrorised, so the coup was suddenly abandoned.

HUN BRUTALITIES, PRISONERS LEFT TO STARVE. LONDON, Nov. ,10. Returned war prisoners state that brutalities against the English increased everywhere in the German camps during the three months prior to the armistice, Yorkshire soldiers say that they left' 2500 out of 4000 interned in Cologne, too ill to move, mainly as the result of starvation, exposure and punishments. STILL ANOTHER REPUBLIC. BUDAPEST, Nov. 19. A Hungarian Republic has been proclaimed. DIVORCE BOOM IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, Nov. 20. There is a great boom in divorces, 350 suits being before the final sitting of the local court. GENERAL PETAIN HONOURED. A MARSHAL OF FRANCE. PARIS, Nov. 10. General Retain has been created a Marshal of Prance. DISORDERLY EVACUATION, HUN SOLDIERY IN REVOLT. PARTS, Nov. 18. The disorderliness of tlie German evacuation is largely owing to many soldiers surrendering. They refuse to leave Prance, declaring that people arc dying of hunger in Germany. Several hundreds of men were killed during a revolution of German soldiers at Diverloom camp, Belgium. Many officers escaped in aeroplanes. The cannonade could bo heard in Holland.

PRINCES RENOUNCE THEIR THRONES. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 19. Princes of the principalities Schwarz.sburg, Rudesliaum and Schaumherglippe have renounced their thrones and republics have been established.

Godfrey .Tones, a Welsh mine foreman who enlisted early in the war as a private, and who in August was nominated to be n. brigadier-general, was once considered by the mine officials, with whom he was con nected for years, as lacking ability to lead men, says a despatch from Loudon. Ac cording to the Daily Nows, Jones, who is 36 years old, attended night school as a boy, ami finally obtained Ins diploma. He was appointed foreman in a. mine, but did not make good, and was reduced to the ranks of a digger. Given another chance, he succeeded. Soon after tho war broke out. he joined the Cardiff “pals” battalion of tho South Wales Borderers. He speedily was made* corporal, and rapidly rose to the. rank of sergeant-major. Ho later received a commission. He went to France in the autumn of 1915, and afterwards'was transferred to Salonika, where ho won tho Distinguished Service Order and promotion to a lieutenant colonelcy. Three weeks ago he obtained leave to return homo and marry a war hospital worker. Tho directors of tho mining company with which ho was formerly employed have decided to create a special position for him on bis return to civil life.