LONDON NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVIII, Issue LXXVIII, 16 June 1919, Page 5

LONDON NEWS.

RUSH OF LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS

GORDON HIGHLANDERS DISO-

BEDIENT

TEMPORARY NAVAL OFFICERS

DEMOBILISED

LANCASHIRE COTTON INDUSTRY

BY CABLE—PEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYBIGHT

LONDON, June 14. There has been an unprecedented and enthusiastic rush to subscribe to the Victory "War Loan.

Two hundred Gordon Highlanders, also a few men of the London Scottish regiment, refused! to embark for service ir> India,1 a-s a protest against sending oversea men who enlisted in 1915.

LONDON, June 10. The British Food Ministry estimates its turnover for the year ended March, 1919, at £900,000,000.

The Admiralty has ordered the immediate demobilisation of 7000 temporary naval officers.

The American Trade Commissioner in London reports that many Lancashire cotton textile manufacturers who are ■unwilling to depend exclusively on the United States for cotton have been sending commissions to Japan, India, and South America in order to find new sources of supply. (Received June 16, 9.15 a.m.) LONDON, June 10. Imports for May increased by £9,----749,767, exports £19,377;321, and re-ex-ports £8,095,234. Waihi shares: Buyers 43s 9d. sellers 46s 3d. P. and 0., £475. Lead imports, £37,840.