LONDON NEWS,

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 12 February 1918, Page 5

LONDON NEWS,

MAN-POWEB PROPOSALS,

MORE REASONABLE ATTITUDE ON

CLYDE,

A BRITISH MERCHANT SERVICE

VOW

NEVER TO SALUTE GERMAN

FLAG

Reuter Service.

LONDON, Feb. 10. As a result of to-day's large and representative meeting of the Clyde engineering and shipbuilding trades a more reasonable attitude prevails on the Clyde regarding the man-power proposals. The meeting resolved to await the decision of the Allied Labor Socialist Conference on the 20th and re-di6cuss the question thereafter. > The army is releasing twenty thousand skilled men for the shipbuilding industry. Officials of the Seamen's "Onion state that the members of the British. Merchant Service, from officers to cabin boys, have pledged themselves not to salute the German flag after the 'war. The Press Bureau reports that Sir Edward Carson's resignation necessitated the appointment of a Minister for Propaganda. Lord Cawley believed that the Propaganda Ministry could be combined with the Chancellorsnip of the Duchy of Lancaster, and resigned the latter, Lord Beaverbrook being appointed to the joint position of Minister for Propaganda and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. [Lord Beaverbrook, better known as Sir Maxwell Aitken, M.P., is a Canadian by birth. Some six years ago, when on a visit to London, he contested the Ashton-under-Lyne seat in the Unionist interest, and though practically unknown in England was elected. He later received a baronetcy and a peerage in 1917. Since the war began he has been in charge of the Canadian War Record Office in London.]