COST OF LIVING.

Waikato Times, Volume 87, Issue 13268, 25 August 1916, Page 5

COST OF LIVING.

BEYOND GOVERNMENT'S CONTROL. Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) LONDON, August 23. In the House of Commons, Captain E. 0. Pretyman, Parliamentary UnderSecretary to tin 1 Board of Trade, replying to the debate on food prices, said the matter could not be isolated from the general conduct of the war. It was only part, of the war problem, and not of lirst importance. The difficulty was largely one of shipping and of the claims en shipping, many of them conflicting. The Government daily was in negotiation with the different interests for the purpose of keeping down prices. It was calculated that soldiers' consumption was 50 per cent, higher than in civilian life, and that was sufficient to account for a considerable increase in prices'. *' The evil was increased by the simultaneous lowering of supplies through the withdrawal of labour from the land. These were factors beyond the control of the Government. The Government practically controlled shipping and steps would be taken to prevent the "cornering" of commodities.

i A FANTASTIC STORY. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received August 24, 8.5 p.m; LONDON, August 24. The Admiralty denies the German story that a submarine severely dambattleship, and says thai

THE AGE LIMIT. YOUNG AND OLD TO BE CALLED UP IN AUSTRIA. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) Received August 2i, 8.0 p.m. BERNE, August 24. .„. Vustrian General Staff reeomJ in' *. . . - the military age to 00 mends raisin* ... ".. a Id, in view ut the " and lowering it u enormous losses. '\ SPARING THE PRUSSIANS. "V ! Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) AMSTERDAM, August 21. Bavarian Socialist newspapers complain that tile General Staff is sending Bavarian regiments In pusls of greatest danger. The Bavarian casualties on the Sonmie were far greater than those of other regiments. NEW GERMAN BOMB. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) LONDON, August -2i. The nevvesl enemy device is a bomb which explodes laterally, causing mutilation and death over an area of 30 yards. A llotilla of aeroplanes dropped these bombs on the Russians in the Pinsk marshes, where it is impossible to construct dug-outs. GENERAL VON MACKENSEN. AMSTERDAM, August 24. Hie Allegcmeine Zeituiig denies that General von Ma ek en sen is on the west front, and says, that lie is commanding the operations agaiust Salonika. FRENCH LOANS. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) NEW YORK, August 24. Arrangements have heen made for a second commercial credit to fiance of to.ilo,u id. ( Tin's will bring France's hoiinw ings in the Lintcd States since the wa nip to nearly L 100,000,000. An analysis shows tliat helore the war the ' banks of England, Franco, Russia and Germany held 0^0,000,.i0n dollars more gold than the United States, but now the United States wa- within 50,000,000 of the combined holdings. PORTUGAL TO HELP. Received August 2o S2O p.m. ' PARIS, August 23. In addition to the o()0 Chinese who have landed at Marseilles for work in munition factories, Portuguese workmen are taking up work in French factories. Portuguese below this age are being mobilised to go to the front. I CHOSE THE WRONG MOMENT. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assoc.) i RERXK, August 24. | General Riedel, the Austrian commander at Oorizia, and two oi his colonels, were court-martialled for being absent on a pleasure trip during the Hist IS hours ut the Italian attack. GERMANY'S PLIGHT. Received August 21, 21 p.m. LONDON, August 24. The military correspondent of the < Loudon Times, Colonel Repingtoii. writes:—"Germany is everywhere on (he defensive. forty-three divisions are held on the Somme. We have certainly inflicted M) 0,0()() casualties during tiie last three months. A Rus. sian general has said that if we could hold 122 German divisions on the west front Russia would be satisfied. She . would look alter the m-m. We have done this."'

RABID RUSSIAN CRITIC

PETROGRAD, August 21

The Government is being urged to prosecute the leader oi the extreme Radicals (M. Bulatzel), who has written a scurrilous article against (■real Britain in connection with the statement of Mr Asquith to the effect that those responsible for the crimes against international law must be punished before England resumes relations with Germany. M. Bulatzel, regarding Mr Asquith's pronouncement a- being directed against the Kaiwr, penned a diatribe against Great Britain, who, he said, was planning a tribunal such as that which passed the death sentence on .Alary Queen of Scots and as that which tried -loan ol Arc. The article goes on to say: "The British Army has advanced a few hundred yards in two years,-Hiid the task of taking the Kaiser prisoner is presumably imposed upon Russia. Tho war will not end when Russia is able to conclude an honourable peace, but when Russia bas laid low the Hohcnzollcrn dynasty." M. Bulatzel practically advocates the making of a separate peace between Russia and Germanv.