WAR NEWS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5354, 10 February 1916, Page 6

WAR NEWS.

ECONOMY CAMPAIGN. Electric Telegranb—Press Association. Copyright. London, Last Night. The economy campaign is proceeding apace. Air Booth, chairman of the Cunard Shipping Company, speaking at Liverpool, urged indivinual thrift which woujd be secured by ruthless taxation. He advocated a great increase in the income, super taxes and in indirect taxation and every unnecessary form of consumption. Voluntary effort might help, but it would not win the war. Local authorities are rigorously cutting down rates, expecting reductions of a shilling in the £ in most boroughs. Postal deliveries have been reduced to two daily. SHORTAGE OF SUGAR. London, Last Night. The Sugar Commission announces that owing to a shortage in tonnage a further restriction of importation is necessary. Experts are advising the public to reduce the consumption of sugar and jams, biscuits and sweetmeats so as to keep the prior down, and also to influence the rate of exchange.

CLAN McTAVISH CREW. New York, Last Night. Lieut. Berg states that with the exception of fifteen Lascars killed and four wounded, all the passengers and crew of the Clan McTavish are prisoners aboard the Moowe. ALLIES CO-ORDINATING. London, Last Night. M. Briand. Premier of France, shortly visits Italy to confer with Signor Salanda on co-ordination in order to secure that the total strength of the AU'e-s is wielded where the enemy is weakest. AMERICAS ‘BACK DOWN.” T.ondon, Last Night. The “Times." in a leader, refuses to believe that President Wilson has made a great surrender in accepting the German blood-money and assurances not to repeat the offence in view of clear and reiterated statements of the principles of previous Notes branding the sinking of lineis as illegal and inhuman. “We decline to think of him.” says the “Times,” “or of any President of America, capable of abandoning the claim disavowed until it was actually done.’ FILMS TO BE DEBARRED. London, Last Night. There is w probability that the importation of films will be forbidden. There i- consternation in the picture industry. Speakers at a meeting of the trade stated that if film importation was forbidden th*. majority of the picturt theatres wolld close down. CONDITION OF KING GEORGE. London, Last Night. Reuter’s agent announces that King George was prepared to open Parliament but yielded to medical advice not to undertake the. ceremony in his present state of convwJescence.