EIGHT THOUSAND MILLION.

Northern Advocate, 9 December 1918, Page 3

EIGHT THOUSAND MILLION.

PART OF GERMAN DUES,

TRIPLE SURRENDER.

AERIAL TRANSFERENCE.

FEWER HOURS.

RAILWAYMEN SATISFIED,

Official announcement is to be made by Mr Lloyd George tviat me reparation in cash which must berrvade by Germany to Great t.nt;.m and British Dominions totals £3,000,000,000. Having given up her land and r..:a power, in accordance wiin armistice demands, Germany is now completing bcr triune surrender by handing over 2000 areroplar-.es. The railwaymen's dispute in Great Britain has bctn adjusted by the authorities conceding an eight-hour day; but th_ Lancashire cotton spinners have not been molliSc:!, and 100,000 of th.m went on strike last Saturday on the question of better pay. Continuing their occupation ;, arch towards the Rh'r.o, the British have reached the Erfft, a tributary of the foris-i- v/atow/ay, have entered Cologne, and have attained _h« general line-, a: -oiar. Scheliedem.. .The Americans have entered Maycnce, on ta_- --i-nne, and the Belgians have occupied the Dusscldorf suburbs. As the sequel to a murderous o-itrag_ against vrz ;• prisoners z.i Mannheim, it is expected that tho French v.-iil occupy bom that town and Heidelberg, which are situated on the Rives- ■•Jccir.ar, in the Grand Duchy of Baden. Marginal notes on German Foreign Office documents _r.ro said to sheet home to the Kaiser direct reaponsibiUty ror trie crime ot originating the world-war. The assertion is also he feeing to trial of the Kaiser and Crown Prir.ce by an In er-All.ed Co., t will not be opposed by the German Government, nas the immunity from law previously «rar.tcd to aw __oh_n:_ol.--in families.