MISCELLANEOUS.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 302, 19 August 1916, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

MORI'] POTEXT THAN FA'ER

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Loudon-. August 17. Mr Lloyd Gem go. speaking at ihe Abei \stwyth Fistoddfod. said: "Biilain's honour is not death Her might, is nnbioken, her destiny is not yet iulhlled. Her ideals have not been shattered by her enemies. She is more alive, more potent, greater than ever: and the Dominions have a wider influence and a deeper puipose, and are more exalted than ever. Why should not we sing at this .stage? The blind 6 of Biitain are not yet down, nor are they likely to be. Better workshops will be uecessaiy alter the war and also moie than ever institutions oxa'tmg il)e people's vision above and beyond the v.oikshop and the countinghoiiho. We lecpnre every national tradition to remind us that man does not live hy bread alone." The f-pooch aroused extraordinai*, scenes of lei your. ABOLISH TUF TRAFFIC. Over two million signatures have been obtained iv six weeks to a memorial uiging the Bntish Government to prohibit the liquor* traffic dining the wai and for the subsequent three months. ADVERSE CRITICISM.* In the House, of Commons, the Bill foi prolonging Parliament met with somo adverse ciiticism, membeis ciiticising the Government for unduly extending the .pciiod. The Government amended the prolonging to Apiil "JO, instead ol to the l end ol May. The Bill was passed. ASKING DIFFICULT CONDITIONS. Accoiding to the newspaper Stampa oi' Rome, Count Andrassy demands certain guarantees before lie will succeeds Baron Burian de Rajccs as Forceed Baron Burian de Rajccs as Forperor refuses. LABOUR CONDITIONS.

Mr George Barnes, M.P. (secretary oi' the Engineers' Union) becomes Secretary ot the Government's Labour Advisory Department and controls the agricultural side of the labour question. Mr Arthur Henderson (ex-Min-ister for Education) controls the industrial side. It is expected that a Ministry of Labour will be created after the war. SUPPRESSING ENEMY TRADE. Official: Italy has issued .a "decree forbiddiinr Italians to trade with the subjects of enemy States or their allies and persons or bodies established in territory belonginsc to or occupied by them. A second decree places under Government control and renders liable to sequestration or liquidation, if necessary, any commercial..undertakiucr. in Italy belonging to or controlled by subjects of enemy States or tlieir allies. THE MAKING OF MUNITIONS. The French output of shells is 801 times greater than before the war, the riiio output 290 times greater, the machine-gun output 136 times greater, and the big gun output 90 times greater. GERMAN GAS AND RIFLES. The Germans are using a new invisible <ras against the Russians on the eastern front. The only warning is a sickening, sweet smell causing dizziness. Tbey are also using a simple magazine, enabling a ri/le to fire 25 shots without reloading. A DESTRUCTIVE RAID. i

A German prisoner in the hands <'f the French gives graphic details of a British aeroplane raid on St. Qucntin at the end of July. "While two battalions were awaiting entrainment. aviators' bombs fell on an ammunition shed. A terrible explosion followed. Sixty waggons lying at the station ignited and also exploded, destroying the soldiers' train. The battalions fled in panic. It was found that 180 had been killed and wounded.

WHO IS IT FOR?

Petrograd cables that"' much war niaterial has readied Orsova, an island on the Danube, at the junction of Serbia, Hungary, and Rouniania. A ROYAL COMMISSION. Official: Sir John Simon (chairman), Lord Justice Molony, and Mr Denis S. Henry, K.C., havo been constituted a Royal Commission to inquire into the cases of the execution of Messrs Skeffington, Dickson, and Maclntyre during the rebellion in Ireland.

WATCHING FOR. THE BREMEN

New York, August '.?

Allied cruisers and aeroplanes are keeping a close watch on the coast for the submarine Bremen.

SALE PROHIBITED. (Received August 19, 10.45 a.m.) Melbourne, August 19. The Commonwealth Government has prohibited the sale by wholesale houses by enemy goods after the end of September, and by retail houses after the end of November.

WORKERS AFTER WAR

UNION CONDITIONS REMAIN,

CHINESE LABOURERS TO GO

London. August 3

The executives of the Miners', Railwaymen's, and Transport Workers' Federations visited the Prime Minister, Mr Asquith, as a deputation, and urged that Labour conditions should not be permitted to deteriorate after tho war. They expressed the hope that the large number of Chinese dock labourers would be repatriated as soon as the war was over.

Mr Asquith replied that the Government had no intention of departing from its pledges for the restoration of trades union practices after the war.