GENERAL ITEMS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17328, 30 May 1918, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

FRENCH TRAITORS. mild sentences. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. . . PARIS, May 28. e£l l aixacailloe has been sentence to a year, and Captain Mathieu to thre months imprisonment. The witnesses included M. Briand, ei tremier, and several ex-Ministers. SWEDEN AND GERMANY. NO EXPORTATION NOW. rrn NEW YORK, May 28. The New \ork Herald's Stockholm cor respondent has interviewed Melinel Lor gen, the-Swedish Minister of Justice, whi I ?, tr " u t} ] at in the earlv stage of the war the Swedish Government's con .o f re-exports was not rigorous, bu since America's entry I believe no good, imported from America have been re exported to Germany." FARM PRODUCE IN BRITAIN. LARGELY INCREASED ACREAGE Australian and N.Z. Cable Association and Rotitor rp, p LONDON, May 28. P , reas Bureau reports that the Apri' census show e that the total acreage inidej wheat in England and Wales is the highWi r o eCO f l 1882, and the area undei barley is the highest yet recorded bv 2C per cent.: while the area under potatoes tu i- gh( ? fc recorded by 27 per cent. Director-general of Food Productior sUtes that the net saving of shipping resulting from the increased production of corn and potatoes m England and Wales t i amount in the incoming year to 1,500,000 tons. ° J BRITAIN'S BREAD SUPPLY. A REASURING STATEMENT. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. Th» n-i v LOn DON, May 28 y ?f pre£ f say* s tiat the Food Mimstp considers that the bread supply liarS am Th. r 6ly T Ured until ™ xt I * , ?• P° !,c y of extracting the \rr% vr r H T of T heat duHn s mining J the admixture of other cereals ha! n equivalent to saving one-third of the average yearly importation without apparently affecting the public health. Alreidv . proportion of wheat extraction has jwice been lowered, and further reductions lone C ny Ca " eafely Ixs A number of Danish farm workers will ihortly be available for work on English arms. 6 THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE, WASHINGTON, May 28. King George has called a Conference of Dominion Premiers to determine the jritish war po.icies and the quotas of men , money, also to consider the voice of sach dominion at the peace table. DISCHARGED SOLDIERS. REINSTATEMENT IN BRITAIN. m * j tut L ONDON, May 28. (Received May 30, at 0.50 a/m.) The Manchester Guardian, states that ■Ir Roberts (Minister of Labour), speakng at ■ Smethwiclc, said the Government tad already dealt with 400.000 discharged oldiere, 60 per cent, of whom had been, einstated m their former employment. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS. ' ANGLO-GERMAN NEGOTLATIONS Renter's Telegrams. . LONDON, May 28 (Received May 29, at 5.30 p.m ) Renter's Agency learns that, almost imultaneously with the British decision • ) exchange a.l war prisoners, communicaons have been received from Germany irough the Dutch Government that the er is now awaiting an assurance that ie bases already submitted by Great ritam are accepted by the German repremtatives. 1 In the House of Commons Mr Bonar aw confirmed the report that the Government was negotiating for a wide scheme, he negotiations would include civilians ; we J as war prison ens, but he could not iv whether the question of prisoners inTned in neutral countries will be raised. Mr Macpherson stated that of 65 000 errnan prisoners in England, 42,000 were rvnloyed in agriculture. There were great faculties in the way of employing them coal mines.