GENERAL NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 17971, 12 March 1917, Page 5

GENERAL NEWS

THE DARDANELLES REPORT BITTER PARTS’ FEELING (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright) (United Service.) LONDON, March 9. Received March 10, 6.55 p.m. The Dardanelles report has led to an outbreak of bitter newspaper party feeling. The Evening News demands the impeachment of the old gang. The Pall Mall Gazette says that the report reveals the type of organisation which was doomed to defeat, even with a fair beginning, and the best of fortune. Punishment of such an inept system is inevitable. The Westminster Gazette asks why experts should attend the War Council If not to speak, and how they could keep silent if they differed materially from the views expressed is not understandable. Mr Asquith’s only possible Inference was that the experts thought the operations possible.

POOD PRICES FIXED LONDON. March 9. Received March 10, 5.5 p.m. The Produce Exchange has fixed the following maximum wholesale prices for the ensuing fortnight;— Butter—New Zealand and Danish, 224s Australian, Dutch. Irish and English, 218s; Argentine, 2145. Cheese —English, 1655; Canadian, 1625; United States, 160s. Lard—l4os. Irish bacon, 140s. Retail prices have not been fixed, but the Food Controller theratens drastic action against anyone making excessive profits.

CONTROOE OF OILS AND FATS LONDON, March 9. Received March 10, 6.55 p.m. The Press Bureau states that the Minister of Munitions is assuming control of all fats, oils, and oilseed products, Including oil-cake, soap, and margarine, but excluding butter, lard, and essential oils. LORD FRENCH’S SISTER WOUNDED LONDON March 9. Received March 10, 6.55 p.m. Lord French’s sister, Mrs Harley, matron of a Scottish Hospital, has been severely wounded at Monastir. STOCKTAKING IN GERMANE HAGUE, March 9. Received March 10, 6.55 p.m. Germany is making a census of boots, shoes and sandals. FETROZi CONSUMPTION. STRICT DEMITS DEFINED LONDON, March 10. Received March 11, 5.5 p.m. The Press Bureau states that with a view to saving Import tonnage owing to a considerable increase in the consumption of petrol and substitutes, the owners of motor vessels have been warned that the monthly quantity of petrol and substitutes used must not exceed the quantity of motor spirit authorised to be purchased. TRANSPORT COLLISION 61 NATIVE LABOURERS DROWNED (Australian & N.Z. Cable Assn & Reuter) LONDON, March 10. Received March 11, 6.5 p.m. The War Office announces that the transport Menrti, with the final batch of South African native labourers, collided with another vessel in a dense fog off the Isle of Wight, on 21st February. Twelve Europeans and 191 natives were saved and 10 Europeans and 61 natives were drowned. HUNGER IN GERMANY AMPLE FOOD FOR THE ARMY

LONDON, March 10. Received March 11, 5.5 p.m. The Dally Telegraph’s Amsterdam correspondent states that while the hunger pinch in Germany is probably at its worst It is easy to exaggerate the importance of hunger riots and other manifestations. They will not change the authorities’ policy, which places the army first, the economic future second, and women and children last or nowhere. Germany is still able to pile up foodstuffs for the army.

SOCIALIST CREATES SENSATION DISTRESS CAUSES LUNACY AMSTERDAM, March 10. Received March 11, 5.5 p.m. Socialist Kofers' speech, published in the Vorwarts, created a sensation. He asserted that suicides, due to distress, were increasing. Parents were demented because food was unprocurable and sometimes they killed their children. He added that the junkers were to blame, not the so-called wicked English.