GENERAL CABLES

Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14601, 26 February 1921, Page 2

GENERAL CABLES

• —« HOME AMD FOREIGN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Aesn.) LONDON, February 2'i. Mr Austen Chamberlain, in replying to a question, said lhat Britain bail received from the Reparation Committee 3181 tons of dye stuffs and 305 Ships, of which 262 were sold for £13,600.001) less £31,000 as. cost of repairs. The War Oflice bad received 3(6,000.000 marks of local currency for the current oreds of the army of occupation. In Hie House of Commons a further amendment raised the women's benefit from 15s to Ids. The fnemplnyment Bill, as amended, was reported to the House.

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Sixty experts are accompanying Herr von Simons as the German delegation. They are housed alongside the Turks. In an application for a wril of habeas corpus in reaped to John Allen. who was. sentenced to death by a military court, the Chief Justice of the Irish King's Bench refused the application on the ground that the court had no power to interfere with a military court. ( PARIS. February 25. The report of the Chamber of Deputies Committee, dealing with the army estimates, [proposes a reduction of £60,0010,000 on the total of £260,000,000 submitted by the Government. CAIRO, February 24. The death sentences passed on six of the vengeance gang, cabled on July 28th, have been commuted to 15 years, and other sentences have been proportionately reduced. Three of the prisoners are hunger-striking. The military authorities three times unsuccessfully pressed for the carrying out of the death penalty.