NOTES FROM LONDON.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145999, 4 December 1917, Page 3

NOTES FROM LONDON.

PROBLEMS FOR THE ALLIES. PAINTED IN GLOOMY COLOURS. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, Dec. 2. The supreme call for the Allies endurance in the critical military situation is complicated by economic troubles and tbe severe winter. 1 ood queues are lengthening in Britain, France and Italy. Difficulties regarding fuel are intensifying public restfulness, marked witb occasional strikes, though the British workers are generally maintaining a staunch war determination. , .... Attention at present is nyetted upon the Austro-German divisions from Hnssia. . It is variously estimated that the Germans are bringing twenty-five divisions to the west, leaving ninety to hold a thin lino or occupy Russian territory. , Colonel Repington expects that the force which will ho relieved will bo larger, and declares that the appearance of a mass of new and fresh Germans on the west will be calamitous.

COVENTRY DISPUTE SETTLED. LONDON, Dec. 2. A conference resulted in an agreement in the Coventry dispute, and 50,000 workers resume on Tuesday. Local conferences will henceforth deal with disputed points. FUTURE OF PALESTINE. AND OF OTHER TURKISH POSSESSIONS. (Received Dec; 4, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 3. A meeting of the Jewish community thanked the Government for its declaration in favour of establishing a national home for Jews. Lord Robert Cecil said the Government’s desire was that the Arab countries should be given to the Arabs, Armenia to the Armenians, Judea to the Jews and the real Turkey to the Turks. BRITISH MEAT SUPPLIES. LOST IN HOME WATERS. (Received Dec. 4, 8.45 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 3. ■ The daily press states that a vessel containing 12,000 tons of meat reached a British harbour. The cargo could not be handled there and she was torpedoed and sunk while proceeding to another port. Another vessel, with a great quantity of meat and other goods, similarly sent to another port, was torpedoed and lost.