VARIOUS ITEMS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5362, 21 February 1916, Page 5

VARIOUS ITEMS.

ATTESTED MEN “SHY.”

London. Last Night. An unduo number of trades have been treated as reserved trades, and over-groat leniency has been shown by local tribunals in exempting single men. ATI this is threatening to destroy the suae ess of the Derby scheme. Wholesale postponements have reduc'd the yield of the early groups below the War Office’s smallest estimates, 'rhe tribunals are sitting as public courts. Reports of interesting cases are now being published in the nowspapers, and it is hoped that, this will bring a change for the better, u* It will tend to discourage unnecessary appeals. Out. of eight, hundred ajipeals at. Wandsworth 6,50 were allowed Many married men are writing to the newspapers complaining that single men are evading their responsibilities in violation of Mr Asquith’s pledges. Fourteen thousand appeals were, made in the city. Tn most cases the employers state: "If you take those men, T will dose business."

ARMED MERCHANTMEN. AMERICAN POLICY REVERSED. Washington, Last Night The State Depai’tment has notified all American diplomats that merchantmen ha ye the right to carry defensive armaments. The United States thus reverses its previous declaration of policy. THE PRESIDENT DENOUNCED. Washington, Last Night. Senator Lodge, speaking in the Senate denuonced President Wilson’s attitude towards armed merchantmen. He declared that the United States was simply delivering itself into the hands of Austria and Germany. American citizens were within thslr rights in travelling on any ship. If the Government abandoned rights which had been existing for two centuries it was untrue to its caste. UNSINK ABLE DREADNOUGHT. London, Last Night. The Rome “Naval Journal” publishes details of a new German ironclad that is totally unsinkable. It is a dreadnought cruiser fitted with triple skins of armour stuffed with non-resisting material, rendering it invulnerable to torpedoes and shells. STEAMER BLOWN UP. Parks, Last Night. The British steamer Cedarwood, from, Middlesborough, with a cargo of cast iron, was blown up at All except two of the crew were drowned. RECORD WAR CREDIT. London, Last Night. The “Daily Telegraph” says that Mr Asquith on Monday will ask for a record war credit of £420.000,000 to meet requirements to the end of May, bringing the total war vote to £280,2.000,000. BRITISH STOCK BOUGHT. New York. Last Night. Mr Pierpont Morgan announces that the British Treasury has sold to the United States Steel Corporation 2.800.000 dollars’ worth of its 5 per cent stock.