ITALY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LII, Issue 167, 12 July 1918, Page 5

ITALY

AIR FIGHTING IN JUNE

EFFECTIVE WORK BY THE ULLIES.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

HOME, Jul;,-. 10. Between June 15th and 25th British and' Italian aeroplanes brought doiwtn 107 .enemy machines. They dropped 5000 bombs and took 3000 photographs, travelling as far as Laibach. Nine Allied' machines were lost. Meanwhile Italian airships located 390 artillery positions. ALBANIA /Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Reuter.) LONDON, July 10. An Italian official report • says":— Having made progress to the Westward of the lower and middle Hemeni, i and extended eastward of t'he occupation of the heights at the head of To■morica, our troops ar-e advancing, repulsing the enemy at the centre astride the Osum. ? . ' OPERATIONS IN MACEDONIA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. July 12, 9.25 a.m.) ' LONDON, July 11. A French Eastern communique reports:—Notwithstanding costly .defeats at the Cerna bend yesterday, the enemy to-day re-attacked. north of Monastir, ibut was again repulsed." We continued to advance.in conjunction with the Italians south of Devoli 211 Albania and' captured Ciraguriprere. and Kosnica peak. The Austrians are retiring in disorder in Tomorica Valley, and wo are pursuing them. / THE AIRCRAFT STRIKE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 10. The aircra'ft strike is extending, 20,000 hands and. sixty firms 'being affected. Negotiations between the workers and Mr Winston 'Churchill ■have. T>egun. . MAJOR MASSEY. AWARDED" THE D.S.O. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) „ LONDON, July 9. ■Major F. 'G. Massey (sbn of New Zealand's Prime 'Minister), has tbeen» r awarded the D.S.O. NEW BRITISH MINEFIELDS. GERMAN NEWSPAPERS - UNEAS'Y. (Australian and"N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, July 10. Colonel Repingtoii (militai-y correspondent of the Morning Post) referring j to th© German newspapers' uneasiness regarding the new British minefields, says it would appear that they are interfering with the enemy's plans, and making overseas expeditions to England, which are always a. serious gamble, even more uninviting. He expects that some ambitious "naval plans, including the Austrian navy, are in the wind. The difficulty of reaching the Mediterranean through, the Straits of Otranto and the exit of the Dardanelles must be harassing the souls of German sailors.

BRITISH TRADE UNION PARTY.

CONFERENCE IN LONDON,

L.ONODON, July 10

Delegates from 15 trado unions, representing 2,500,000 members, met at the House of Commons and decided that the Parliamentary Committee of the Trade Union Congress should establish an international department; m order to develop« relations with Allied, neutral, and Dominion trades unions. It convened a conference to determine the .war time and after-war policy, and consider the practicability of appointing Labour ambassadors' to act as agents for international trades unionists. . The meeting appointed a sub-commit-tee to formulate'a definite scheme.

| WAR PENSIONS AND POLITICS. A DANGER OF THE FUTURE(Aastralian and N.Z. Gable Association.) (Rec. July 12, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 11. In. the House of Commons Mr Baa-low moved' —at it is essential that all questions relating to- pensions should l>o kept free from parly politics. He said j corruption of public life was inevitable if pensions became a matter of political bargaining. Mi' Bonn 2' Law said that if parties began seeking election on tlve .strength of what they were going to .do regarding pensions a most demoralising campaign would ensue. The House of Uommons ought to carry a resolution showing that they were determined to Jteep the question outside the area of ordinary politics. The resolution was accepted. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. DOUBLE INCOME, TAX DISCUSSED (.Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.; LONDON, July 10. The Imperial Conference was engaged to-day on the question of double income tax. The Dominion representatives strongly urged the injustice of the double tax. It is not expected that the outcome will be satisfactory, and no relief is likely during the war. The proposal to establish an Imperial Bureau of Statistics was discussecl, and conflicting views as to its utility were expressed. A delegato states that the Conference will probably last for a fortnight, the Imperial War Cabinet continuing for some time thereafter. The New Zealand representatives will return at the end of August. NATIONALISATION OF MINES URGED. (Published in The Times.) (Rec. July 12, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, July 11. Tihe Miners' Federation has resolved ! to recommend the immediate nationalisation of the mines- under the joint control of workers and a State delegate. It is pointed out that if the industry is very briefly suspended, proj secution of the war would be impossible. ' J CANADIAN JOURNALISTS. j VISIT TO GREAT BRITAIN, i - , .: . (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association (Rec. July 12, 9.25 a.m.) LONDON, July 11. A party of Canadian newspaper editors and proprietors have arrived for the purpose of learning the Homeland at first hand, after four years of war. AUSTRALIA, y "HANDS AROUND THE PACIFIC." (Press Association Copyright.) SYDNEY, July 11. A meeting in the Town Hall inaugurated a Hands Around the Pacific Club, linking wifch branches at -San Francisco, Seattle and Honolulu, with a" view to cementing Allied interests in the Pacific internationally, socially, and commercially.