GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Manawatu Times, Volume XL, Issue 14068, 26 November 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

LONDON, Nov. 23. Mr Goldfinch, addressing the wool industry representatives, said that the Government's orders would be the chief factor in production during the next three or four months. It is expected that thereafter the Government requirements will gradually diminish, and probably the Government will continue to issue wool to spinners to the end of June or July. It ought to be possible to reopen the London auctions at mid-year without conflicting with the Government's interest respecting the purchase of Australian and New Zealand wools. LONDON, Nov. 23. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Wolverhampton, said that we captured 60 times more German guns during the last three months than we possessed at the beginning of the war. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 23. The republic of Livonia has been proclaimed. SYDNEY, Nov. 25. It is officially announced that the influenza is completely under control. A relief steamer has left for Samoa. LONDON, Nov. 23. It is now permitted to say that the cross Channel train and ferry service was of enormous advantage in forwarding urgent replacements of guns, tanks, etc., during the Germans' March offensive. It is probably not an exaggeration to say that this alone justified the whole outlay. A regular service was maintained between Richborough and Calais or Dunkirk, and between Southampton and Dieppe. Three twinscrew steamers, 363 feet long, 61 feet broad, and 10 feet draught, with a speed of 12 knots, each provided for four lines of rail track, carrying 54 ten-ton waggons. The whole scheme was carried out by military labour. LONDON, Nov. 23. Mr Lloyd George, speaking at Wol verhampton, said that the men who had fought and made a new world possible were entitled to a full share of its gladness. The first thing to put right was the appalling waste of human material. Slums were not fit homes for men who had won the war, nor nurseries for the children who were the future Imperial race. The housing of the people would be a national undertaking. It was essential to have a more intelligent agricultural policy, and the land must be cultivated to its utmost capacity. There must be reclamation of land, afforestation, and better transportation. If the Government was unable to get along because of Parliamentary obstruction, he would again appeal to the people. LONDON, Nov. 23. Mr Percival Phillips, describing King Albert's triumphant entry into Brussels, states that the city evinced overwhelming enthusiasm and the cheering resounded all day long, and the crowded streets were impassable. King Albert, wearing the khaki of a Field-Marshal, rode at the head of a brilliant cavalcade, including the Queen, the English Prince Albert, the Crown Prince of Belgium, and a brilliant group of officers representing the Allies. The King received an address of welcome at Parliament House and watched the march past of the Allied troops. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. The United States has granted Belgium a new loan of 5,600,000 dollars. President Wilson has sent the following message to King Albert:—"At the moment you re-enter Brussels at the head of your victorious army, may I express the great joy it gives me and the American people to hail your return to your capital, as marking your final triumph." LONDON, Nov. 23.

Tho Amsterdam correspondent of the Daily Express states that Horr Ballin's suicide was the direct consequence of a dispute with the Kaiser and Kaiserin in October. Herr Ballin protested against Ludondorff dabbling in questions of reconstruction which were outside the sphere of the general, who was plunging Germany into the abyss of defeat. The Kaiser, in the presence of the Kaiserin. supported Ludendorff, whereupon Herr Ballin warned the Kaiser not to be blinded to the real situation. Germany could not live unless on decent terms with England. When Herr Ballin hinted at the possibility of revolution, the Kaiserin sprang to her feet and denounced the Hebrew merchants, who wanted to supplant the Empire's real master Herr Ballin declined to answer, and left the room a broken man. He sent for a journalistic friend to record the conversation, and then shot himself through the heart. When the Hamburg Soviet took control of the city they made Ballin's HamburgAmerica Palace' their headquarters. LONDON, Nov. 23. Britain's remonstrances to Germany regarding the treatment of prisoners was communicated to Sir Douglas Haig, who despatched it to Spa. Sir Douglas Haig reports that he is taking all possible steps to alleviate the plight of prisoners, including the sending of motor ambulances, etc., ahead of the Allied armies, to rescue the Weak ' LONDON. Nov. 23.

The Dutch steamer Johanna was mined near Staaw. Fourteen wer« killed. The vessel is floating, and will probably be'salvaged. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 23. General Mackensen and his staff have arrived at' Berlin. LONDON, Nov. 24. A Belgian communique statas: We have reached the line of Lommcl, Bourgleopold, to Diest. AMSTERDAM, Nov. 23.

German newspapers state that r.o fewer than 278 kings, queens, princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses in Germany have either abdicated or been dethroned. Bavaria heads the lists. She has sent thirtynine into exile and Russia thirty-three. Brunswick- is the lowest on the list with five. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 23. Frontier fighting in Austria-Hungary, Transylvania, Bohemia and Croatia is assuming serious proportions. There are a number of small, savage wars as the outcome of racial hatred, in order to determine the future frontiers ot the new national States. COPENHAGEN, Nov. 23. What is called an All-Russian Government has been formed at Ekatermodar, composed of members of tlio general staff of the old volunteer army. with SudonofT as Minister of Foreign Affairs, with a view to re-establishing United Russia on federative principles, and keeping the Bolsheviks out ot die Ukraine. The strength and prospects of the new Government are unknown [Ekaterinodar, the _ capital oi the Kuban province, is situated inn miles inland from the Bihck Sea on the Kuban river. It has a cathedral a military hospital, a population of 100,000 people, and is connected by ra. and river with the Black Sea port ot Novorosnokaia.] „___.-, XT or , AMSTERDAM, Nov. 23. The Bolsheviks have been guilty of terrible excesses in Petrograd during the last few days. Five hundred exofficers were either murdered or arrested. Foreigners are l>eing employed as street cleaners. Fourteen members ot the Petrograd soviet hourly tear a I counter revolution.