BRITAIN'S PART.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15394, 27 September 1915, Page 8

BRITAIN'S PART.

LIQUOR RESTRICTIONS. DECBBABE IN DBUNKENNESS. IMPROVEMENT IN WORKSHOPS. {By ~Cibl«.—Press * Association.—Copyright.') ttfNDON, September 25. ' An Order-in-Cotincil has- been Gazetted applying the liquor control regulationß to London, inchidingtho City. Lord XHAbernon, presiding at a conferenco of the chief constables of liquor - coatrol areas, stated that prosecutions. - for- drunkenness .had dropped 40 per cent, sinco the application of the Act. There had been a gratifying increase in tho sobriety of seamen and firemen, and a marked improvement in shipyard " and munition-makers' timekeeping. 'GERMAN ESCAPEES RECAP- . TURED. LONDON, Soptember 25. > • Two German cscupeea irom Dorchester were recaptured •„ at Hartlepool after visiting Ikal ahd Lond6n. They were each sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. CURIOUS GERMAN FORECAST - '"WAS THERE A LEAKAGE? ("Tinwe" md "Sydney Sun" Sejviceo.) (Received September 26th, p.m,> ' LONDON, September'2s. . The "Daily Mail" repnuts a forecast of. tho; Budget published in tho "Hambflrger FromCenblatt,"' correctly iore- . casting the British , income tax, and the increases in the tea and tobacco- duties •two days before'Mr McKenna's speech . in. the House of.Commons^ INDIA AND THE EMPIRE. REPRESENTATIVES AT THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. (Received Septenibej, 26th, '5.5 p.m.) « LONDON, September 25* The Simla : correspondent of ' "The >. lines' stftjtesthatthe Viceroy's accept®n<» <>f tho resolution asking that, India shall be officially represented at the Imperial Conference causes universal satis--4 faction. India has kectily felt tho invjdipusnesa of at past con-' . * feropces, and'welcomes tho prospect of ft regular status. The Viceroy is confident that the Dominious will regard . the matier from a wider angle of vision, the samo as other Indian making the Indians conscious that they are members of a world partnership under tho same flag.

H - DISTINGUISHED SERVICE*YOUNG ..NAVAL OFFICER'S FEAT. - GUN TRANSPORTED 700 MILES. ... v LONDON, September 25. .. Lieutenant Louis H. K. Hamilton, R.N., has boon awarded tho Distinguished Service Order'for transporting -aj naval gun 160 miles up the river Niger, 480 miles im the Benuc river, 1 , ana sixty miles overland. This feat ' largelycontributed to tho surrender of Garua, in the Cameroous. . - Lieutenant Louis Henry Koppel t Hamilton, who is -3 of age, entered tho Royal Navy in 1905, and on completion of his training as a -cadet ! ' •- was awarded the King's Medal. This '•i . .js Sold medal awarded periodically by . - rtheKing to the cadet who, during his •.period of training, exhibits tho most ,gentlemanlike bearing and good influence atoonfr tho cadets. Ho was projnoted sub-licutcnant on June 30th, >1911. and on October 10th he was apf tinted to the Medina, in which the ing and Queen travelled to India. [Promoted lieutenant on June 30th, 1913, Lieutenant Hamilton was appointed a few months later to H.M.S. '• Cumberland, training ship for naval cadets, in wnich he served until Decem- . ber 4th, 1914. when he was appointed to H.MJS. Challenger, which was engaged in operations on the coasts of r " Tpgoland and the Cameroons. The Bonuo river flows into the Niger "about 200 miles from the" mouth of tho ■J- latter river, of which it is the most important tributary. After leaving his J slirp some distance up the Niger, lieutenant Hamilton, jn command of his'party, steamed 840 miles to the frontier of the Cameroons, and thence j/ - proceeded overland to Garua, which fies about aixiy miles to the eastward on the north bank of the Benue river.