GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14933, 5 March 1912, Page 8

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

- FROM THE AUSTRALIAN PAPEB* ' SPAIN AND MOROCCO. President Faixieres an( King Alfonsft will meet in August at Biarritz. It is expected that they will then 'complete the negotiations concerning the French aid Spanish claims in Morocco. TIBETANS MASSACRED. /'% News of the wholesale slaughter 0 Tibetans by the Chinese is contained in despatches received at Shanghai. It i s re . ported that tho Chinese in Tibet, ear . : ' ing that the return of the. Grand Llama '' •'! would be tho signal for ci massacre'o! : foreigners, decided to anticipate matter&t They slaughtered all tho Tibetans along the border, :tiot sparing the women and children. PRINCESS CHIMAY. Miss Clara Ward, who obtained con- ' sidorablo notoriety as the Princess Chimay, and who was later the wife of "-' tho Chevalier Iticciurdi, is reported to be X' contemplating another divorce, which she will seek in tho American courts. It i» understood that Miss Ward has another ill husband in her mind's eye. '/" ■ * ''" 411 ■ NEW ''WHITE HOPE." It is reported that Bob Fit&simmons is '"' ' secretly training his 16-year-old son- in >tM order to make a world-beater of him This boy is said to be 6ft high, and to * weigh 1601b. In addition he possesiies &U '. - , the ringcrait and generalship which hii • father has been abl*. to instil into hinu UNIVERSAL PEACE. f V ■ President Taft and the German Am- : ''"''" bassador, Count Von Bernstoriff, both - heartily favour the earliest consummation of an arbitration treaty between Germany •,' f'v and the United States. "The treaty'". says President Taft, "would bo helpful \ in reassuring the citizens that our Government is equally willing to negotiate with \ Germany on the same lines as with Great Britain and France. The negotiations * are incomplete, but the people can rest aft. sured that our earnest efforts will be re. sumed with Germany for the attainment of universal peace by means of arbitration.*' ' .' : :- : XX ; Ma FRANCHISE FIGHT IN ITALY. During the present session of the Cham", ber of Deputies the women of Italy L'i»fl||H| begin . their first, skirmish in the \ suffrage campaign. Up to the present the fight for the franchise has been carried on with' little or no publicity, but the women are , confident of obtaining a hearing before •■; ! Parliament that will enable them, to exi plain their views on the Electoral Eeform' • Bill, under which it is' proposed to grant''.v"|t? what will practically be universal suffrage to all classes of men in Italy. Thes f . % women hope that a clause will be inserted extending the franchise to their ows sex. ' :, ; j : ' : "^:f- ! ,f'';!v|^'; "THE REAL KAISER." In a sketch of "The Real Kaiser/* ! Lucien Wolf states that no monarch of our times has been inspired with more exalted principles, has dreamed nobler ' ; dreams, lias lived a more laborious and i self-denying life, . or' has more S; courages ously done his duty. It is declared that the : Socialistic demonstration ' against tile Kaiser was wholly undeserved, eince he ' is in reality a very good Socialist of the school of Maurice and Kingsley." "People do not remember," states this apologist for the Emperor Wilhelm, " the Inter- ' national Labour Conference of 1890, when the Emperor gave social democracy tie free hand which, enabled it to conquer a section, of the. public. This attitude-of Jie Kaiser cost Bismarck's resignation. The popular conception of the Kaiser as the typical war lord is altogether erroneous.' : Ho has had many opportunities of giving Germany a stronger foothold! by means- . of war, but he has always refused. He corresponded with the late Lord Salisbury ; on the subject of a Peace Conference before the present Tsar evolved the idea of the Hague Conference. He always shared - Lord Salisbury's dream :of a federation ' and peace league of European Powers. During the Boer war Professor Delbraedc said that the Kaiser was tha only friend England had in Europe. This, of course, was an exaggeration; out still, .itis a fact • ' that it was due to the Kaiser that the scheme of European coalition againsi , ' England was defeated and that lunger > failed to receive any official encourage, ment in Germany. • ■