GENERAL NEWS.

Mataura Ensign, 21 June 1915, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS.

WORKERS AND MUNITIONS. PRISONERS FOUND GUILTY. LAI PRISONAIEN T AND A FINE. LONDON, June 38. In the Glasgow iron <%re case a, ma-jority-'ofthe jury found the two pnson-u-s guilty, with recommendation to lenicncv ‘owing to the unprecedented premnitaiices and the violent .derangement. of business owing to the war. The ae; used were each sentenced to ■Jx months’ imprisonment, and fined £2OOO apiece. The correct name of one of the pnsmem is Ret hering ton, not Irviugdale, is first stated. The name of the other 'Wilson. They were partners m the kin of Jacks and Co., ami sold large hipment-s of iron to Kvupps. THE SUAIAIING UP. ( * LONDON, June 18. ‘ Lord Strathclyde, -summing up in the Ilasgow iron ore ease, said nothing hort- of a Roval license would eiii-itle -i Britisher to‘attempt to supply goods co the people of Germany. The firm ol Jacks and Co., until August 10, never intended that the ore should go to Germany ; when they tound that through heir German house they eould effect m arrangemenl with -their consumer?.. jPJioir action resulted in the Geimants ■ eciu'ing iron ore.