LATEST GENERAL CABLES.

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 1511, 10 March 1920, Page 5

LATEST GENERAL CABLES.

NO USE FOR EX-KAISER. [By Electric Cable —Copyright.] [Aust. and N.Z. Cable Association.] BERLIN, March 3. There was a stormy debate in the Prussian Parliament on the first reading of the Bill giving the exKaiser the use for his lifetime of many palaces and theatres, and leaving him an exceedingly rich man. The Socialists attacked the proposal to permit Wilhelm to retain most of the wealth his ancestors had wrung from the nation. He had led the destruction, they said, and his six sons were well able to work. Wilhelm’s was the largest German family which had not lost a single member in the war. A speaker described the ex-Crown Prince as a young man who had a predilection for the fair sex, and who had taken out a patent for cuff-links. The main argument of the Conservatives was that, although Wilhelm had made mistakes he meant well by his people. The debate proved that the Hohenzollerns have lost influence, and retain few friends in Germany. PRIZE FIGHTING. LONDON, March 5. In the Albert Hall, Beckett, who was sensationally defeated by Carpentier recently, knocked out Dick Smith (formerly of New Zealand) in the fifth round of a match for the heavyweight championship of Britain. ALLIES LET KOLTCHAK DOWN. LONDON, March 3. Colonel Ward, speaking in the City, said that Koltchak was a cleansouled Russian patriot. The Allies persuaded him to accept the task of establishing a stable Government, but finally deserted him. The 1* rench Commander-in-Chief actually surrendered Koltchak to his enemies in the middle of the night, and within an hour Koltchak was destroyed in a back yard. When the Allies changed their policy towards the Bolshe\ iks they were not compelled to go to the length of absolute treachery.

HELLO WIRELESS. LONDON, Marcjh 4. Mr Godfrey Isaacs, interviewed, said that telephony between Britain .and America was approaching completion. The service may be opened in the autumn, enabling London to ring up, through the post office, a business house in , any American town. Perfect distinctness is assured, like telephoning locally or from London to Birmingham. The charge has not been fixed but it will probably be a shilling a minute. The company ■intend to link up the world. According to a newspaper report, wireless telephone trials between Berlin and Moscow have proved success’ul. McADOO WOULD McADEAL. < Received Tuesday, 2.55 p.m.) WASHINGTON, March 4. Mr McAdoo suggests that the United .States should purchase the British possesions on the Atlantic Coast, including the Bahamas, Bermudas and Jamaica, giving Britain credit for them against her war debt of £4,277,000,000. Prohibitionists support the proposal, because Americans are flocking to these islands where the liquor trade is flourishing. British circles view the idea with little favour, and point out that British pride would be an insuperable obstacle to its acceptance.

BRITISH BUY BUTTER, LONDON, March 4. The British Government has purchased 120,000 casks of Danish butter. The price is not divulged, but it is believed to be about 3/4 per pound, landed. SOVIET CONSPIRACY. NEW YORK, March 4. Documents before the Senate Committee reveal a Soviet conspiracy to start a Bolshevik revolution in the United States. Diamonds valued at three million roubles were discovered when a Soviet courier was arrested. They were hidden in the false bottom of a valise with compromising documents. A NEW SCOURGE, VIENNA, 'March 4. A terrible new epidemic called brain influenza, declared to be similar to lethargic encephialitis, is ravaging the city. There are 300 cases in Vienna alone, and the disease is spreading alarmingly over the countryside. The symptoms begin with headaches and sleeplessness, followed by stomachic convulsions similar to .appendicitis, followed by violent de--1 ilium.