BRITISH & FOREIGN.

Timaru Herald, Volume CVII, Issue 16610, 20 August 1918, Page 5

BRITISH & FOREIGN.

COMMERCIAL AEROPLANE SERVICE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. LONDON, August 18. Sir Joseph Ward is confident that as the result of many inquiries a commercial aeroplane service •will soon be established in all British dominions and also between England and America. The leading English aeroplane manufacturers arc keenly interested in the proposed service and arc facilitating preliminary arrangementsSTREET TRAFFIC STRIKE. The whole- of the tram and omnibus ■mployees in London, except those ot Iho National Ste.tm Car Company, ana conductresses aro on strike for more pay. Over 3000 men and women are involved. STRIKE TO BE EXTENDED. (Renter's Telegrams.) Received 7.15 p.m., August 19th. A mass -meeting of tram and bus strikers decided tq oil out all members of tho volatile workors uuion in I ondon and tho provinces to-morrow-CHINA AND THE VATICAN. .NEW YORK, August 17. The "Times" Pckin correspondent states that the Chinese Government has cancelled the appointment of its Minister to the Vatican. The Minister, who has reached Madrid on his way to Rome, has been notified to icturn. CHINESE CURRENCY SCHEME. NEW YORK, Angust IS. The Chicago "D-iiJy News'' Pckm correspondent states that a mandate .--gued by tho President announcing an issue of gold currency notes, is criticised by bankers as impracticable, and as infringing on tho currency reform agree nicnt, and on Japan's position in the Conceit of the Powers, Japan having promised, in accordance with other nations, that all political loans shall bo raised by joint participation. Tho announcement that gold, notes will be vsed as the basis of Chinese gold curlency is described by bankers as bunkum. CROP PROSPECTS. All reports from tho Midlands testify that the corn harvest and root crops aro likely to bo exceptionally heavy. WAR CONSUMES FORESTS. Timber felling ibr war purposes is proceeding in Great Britain at the rate of 13,000,000 tons annually. MEXICAN CONFISCATION LAW. Australian and N.Z-. Cable Assn. WASHINGTON, Angust 17. Carranza undertook to alter the decree by which undeveloped oil lands belonging to Mexicans or foreigners might bo seized, upon the owners' failure to submit to Irish taxation. The United States and Britiw'n made v .cordis representations on th\s subject.