RESTRICTION OF FOOTBALL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13825, 21 July 1915, Page 6

RESTRICTION OF FOOTBALL.

PURCHASE OF COTTON SHIPMENTS

SUCCESS OF THE WAR LOAN,

DISAGREEABLE IMPRESSION IN

GERMANY

(Received July 20, 5.20 p.m.)

London, July 20

In the House, of Commons Mr. H. J. Tennant, Under-Secrctary for War, in response to a request for the views of the Government regarding football, said that although the measures taken in 191-1 had not realised all the desired results, they had been in the main satisfactory. The Government looked confidently to those responsible to further restrict matches in accordance with the strong public feeling.

General Henderson advocated dupli-cate-engined aeroplanes. Mr. Tennant replied that tho provision of single-engined machines was ■more urgent. The Government did not believe that multiple engines were more ■efficient. Lcrd Robert Cecil stated that £700,000 had been paid for the purchase of twenty-five American cotton shipments. German newspapers indicate that a disagreeable- impression has been caused by the brilliant success of the British War Loa7i. They do not mention the likelihood of a protracted war, which idea is unpopular. This gives credence to the report that the statement that the war would be over by October was actually the Kaiser's.