CENTRAL POWERS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 166, 11 July 1918, Page 5

CENTRAL POWERS

RESIGHATION OF KUHIMAHN (Renter's Telegrams.! COPENHAGEN, July 9. The Wolff Bureau reports that the Kaiser has accepted Kuh,lmann'e resignation. Hiritzq, Ambasador *at Christiania, is mentioned as his successor. THE AUSTRIAN COURT RUMOURS REGARIDTNG TUB ' EMPRESS DEiN lED. (Published in The Times.) (Rec. July 11, 9.55 'a.m.) THE HAGUE, July 10. Reference to veiled stories of scandals it* the Austrian Court are reported in j Vienna. Karl is accused _of idleness j an!cl neglecting State business, sharing j i the fondness of all young officers for [ drinking, music, and kindred • antulse- ; I ments. ,1 1 Hie Empress is reproached for medldling in State affairs. It 'is alleged that she, or her mother, revealedl the plan . of the Austrian offensive to the Italians. I Loyal Austrians believe that German ; agents circulated the latter charge. | According to the Vienlna correspon- | dent of the Tyd, (the Empress frankly ■desires peace, but the accusation relating. to the offensive is monstrous-. The rumour affecting her morals is equally > slanderous. IRELAND. AGRICULTURAL. LABOURERS. INFLUX INTO IQNiGrLAiMD RESENTED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) XiOINiDO'N", July 9. Ireland's immunity from conscription is having a serious effect on the hiring of harvest labour in the north of England. At a hiring fair strong young Irishmen were taunted with failing to do their duty, which led to frays between them and farmers at various | places, necessitating police intervenj tion. j Englishmen are disgusted' that young • Irishmen should be allowed to come to England! and claim big wages in place j of elderly 'Englishmen who have been called to the Army.

PROFESSORSHIP OF AVIATION (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. July 11, 1.10 p.m.) LONDON, July 10. < Sir Basil Zaharoff has given £25,000 to (establish a professorship of aviation, at London. ~ THE FOOD MINISTRY MR CLYNES APPOINTED CONTROLLER. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.) LONDON, July 9. The Press Bureau reports that Mr 1 dynes has been appointed; Food 'Controller. MR J. R. CLYNES. I do not think there is a sturdier type of democrat or a more honest man in the House of Commons' than J. R. Clyn.es, writes "One of Them" in 'Cameos in London National News. No doubt this' appear to fae \ ery high praise, 'out I am _ not given to exaggeration, and I believe it to be thoroughly w.ell deserved. Clynes ! looks the product of labour conditions i that he is. He lias been a worker. J You could never mistake him. for anything else. What he has learnt has. been acquired in the stern school of experience and from close personal _ coptact "with the facts of life. Hi> is ift the complete 66Jise of the term a selfmade man. He comes from" the North Country., being Lancashire horn, (but, as ihis name signifies, is of Irish, extraction. A In an mor-o unlike the Irish, however, in many ways, I have never met. He may be impulsive, but I have never known him to show any outward symptoms of this peculiarly Celtic cbaracteristic. I have not the least doubt he can be warm-hearted and cordial, 'but no Englishman that I have ever met possessed more natural reserve than he does. Probably his- hard and, indeed, bitter early days "of difficulty are responsible for the restraints that Mr Clynes has imposed upon himself. Jimmy Clynes, as his comrade-work-ers call ihim, was in pre-war days a power up Lancashire way. That he na<s talk'en office may have for the time being mitigated liis popularity, though why it should be so I cannot understand, seeing that as Parliamentary Secretary. to the Ministry of Food he is rendering national service of the most material kind, and has reflected intense credit on the capacity of Labour for discharging administrative work of the most complex and difficult character. In these days of rationing' and countless food orders Mr Clynes is inevitably constantly in the public eye, and there is not a more heckled Minister in the House. But he is more than equal to his job, and more than a match for any of his questioners. He has a clear brain, a candid straightforward outlook, a perfectly self-pos-sessed manner, and tlie Irishman's gift of humour. Then he knows his subject inside and out, so that he has admirable equipment for office, and he makes excellent use of it. He has a direct and. forcible style of speaking and can get along very well, even when he has not made elaborate preparations beforehand'. He is a ready debater, which is not exactly the same thing as 'being a good, speaker; for one may | make a very fine set speech indeed, but go all to pieces if called upon /to reply in debate to tho challenges of \a number of cunning antagonists. He represents . North-East Mahches: tar. saw the , light at Olclliam, still lives there, received, such Vdu<ia/t|on a* lie ever hail in his young days in the elementary schools, .and went to "work in a cotton factory at a. Very, young age. Yet 'by sheer native talent, com'biiied with pluck and grit, . Jie has. risen superior to all the accidents. of his. birth and uplbtfinging, until today, when he is not yet 50 years of age, he is a successful Minister of the Crown and one of the most respected j.nd honoured men v in Parliament. The mail who can do these things in these days- of hustle and competition must have good stuff in him and. is more than entitled to "alii the- honours that come Ws way. Mr Clynes has given long and faithful service to Labour in various capacities, and if the Labour Party are wise in their own generation they will bind a man of his calibre to them -witfh hoops of steel/ for his sane counsel his long experience, and clear and calm intellect would be an invaluable asset in those coming days when the hot-headed ones are 'bound to be . very •much in evidence. I wish him well, and hope he. has many years of useful and honoured, public service before him. For what ho has lived through ajidi what lie liae accomplished Ihe has earned it thatrthe fates should be kind to him. THE WODL TRADE. PREPARATION FOiR POST-WIARI TRADE. I Australian and N.Z. Cable Association^ (Rec. July 11, 9.55 a. m.) LONDON, July 10. No section of 'the .British traders i® more alive to the need of preparing for post-war trade resumption than! the wool traders. Several committees are constantly sitting, considering a. scheme for submission to the. Gov eminent with a view to enabling tho wool (trade to revert to normal conditions on the earliest possible moment after peace is declared. They Hope .to foijmftilate a scheme which will. operate 4lie -instant the Government's army requirements cease. It is admitted it must, as has been already announced, control the supply of raw material, giving the Allies = _the first call upon - wool for. some period, but the trade believes that wool auctions can be resumed as soon as the war is ended anjd similarly control wool mauu f acturers. BRITAIN AND NEUTR3X SHIPS. EICrHiT OF SEARIOH3 MAINTAINED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association / (Rec. July 11-, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON. July 10. Lord Robert 'Cecil (Parliamentary Secretary of the War 'Office) ,sa Government fully, recognised thejital importance of maintaining the right\to vi-at and search neutral ships. No-h----•ing in connseotdon with the Daitch convoy, could be regarded an abandonnuent or of that vightl Holland supplied full particulars of cargoes and guaranteed that no foods of enemy origin, anld the Netherlands Government had an assurance that ' it had no intention o raising the whole question of the right o£ search. . .

I AFTER THE WAR I SPEECH) BY iSIR THOMAS [ MACKENZIE. TARIFF BARMiEiRS AGAINST THE HUN. and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 9. Sir Thomas Mackenzie was the prin>cipal speaker at a patriotic rally in the Town- Hall at, Leeds. He recalled the , New Zealand of thirty years ago-, and ( found that we had travelled far sinjre , Adam Smith. iShe had given the Moth- | erland preference, and after the _ > v ; ar ! she is goimg to put on a prohibitive j (tariff of 50 per cent against Germany, J and' it would be 500 per cent if neces- ■' sary. Her aim was to keep out the ! Germans because they wero shonest, dishonourable, and brutal, llritain must also do (Something to keep out unfair competition. _ j "Are you going," asked Sir Thomas, < "to trade with enemies after .the war on the same terms as with the Allies ? If so the enemy will use every shilling j of profit to traini fresh armies to er,i- ( slave the world." "We should, he proceeded, secure the whole of the Australian and New Zealand wool for : ourselves and our Allies, and prevent Germany ever getting the*- finer _ wools, I thus cutting her out of that section of I trade altogether. The total output of : South American Merinos was only 73 million pounds, and Germany ale lie used 238 million pound!®. New Zealand had sent 110,000 soldiers out of a mil- , lion inhabitants, but he confessed that the strain oil her man-power resources was now beginning to tell. New Zealand-, however, could supply a superabundance of .foodstuffs and raw material. while America —thank God for America—had men i!ni plenity willing to go. It was sound., policy to a-<• opt men from America, and food®tuff& Horn New Zealand, Samoa and New Guiflfea must never be returned to Germany. With the Panama Canal or,enei &;ipoa was the Charing 'Cross of the Pacific. It was impossible thajt- we should _ al"low Germany to set up aircraft stations and submarine bases there. We did not want the islands because of the land, bijt we would not have brutal and a l * honourable neighbours. PLUNKET SOCIETY. PREFERENCE TO WORK IN GREAT BRITAIN. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) '(Rec. • July 11, 'l.lO p.m.) LONDON, July 10. Lord Plunket presided at the gathering andi Mr Massey opetied the Ba'bies <>f the Empire . Mothercraf t Training 'Centre, under the auspices of the Overseas Club and Patriotic League. j ■ Mr Massey said that thousands of children had beea saved through the work of th>& Plunket Nurses and Public Health Organisation in NeW Zealand. ,

Dr Trr.l»y King, who is ire'dical director of tiie centre, cUfcfibed the work. .......=