BRITAIN'S PART.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 15872, 11 April 1917, Page 7

BRITAIN'S PART.

THE SHIPPING PROBLEM GREATER FACILITIES FOR NEW ZEALAND. MR MASSEY MOVING. (By Ciblo—Pk«9 Association—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association.) LONDON, April 9. Mr Masscy is still urging the authorities to provide greater facilities for tho shipment of Now Zealand producc. It is hoped that America's seizure of enemy vessels will soon help in relieving tho shipping stringency. THE PACIFISTS. A LABOUR M.P.'S UTTERANCES. LONDON, April 9At tho Independent Labour Confor. cnce, Mr Jowett, Labour M.P. for West Bradford, said that Americans participation had not altered his party's hostility to the war. If tho Allies announced tho same declaration as President Wilson they could, havo peace now, but President Wilson, despite his pacificism, would not permit America to be invaded or her rights violated. Mr .Towett added that if Britain had not secretly tied herself to Russia, tho tatter's Government would havo crumbled years ago. A subsequent speaker denounced Mr Jowott's "pugnacious pacificism." AN AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE. DOMINION GOVERNMENT CRITICISED. MELBOURNE, April 10. At an inter-State conference of peace advocates it was resolved that tho time for prosecutions under the War Precautions Act had ceased. Attention was called to the condition of the New Zealand workers under conscription, and the conference decided to send an emphatic protest to the New i Zealand Government.

TROUBLE IN IRELAND. ANNIVERSARY OF REBELLION. SINN FEIN DEMONSTRATION. I (United Servicc.) (Received April 11th, 12.5" a.m.) LONDON, April 10. At Dublin, on the occasion of tho anniversary of. the Sinn Fein rebellion last year, about 200 Sinn Feiners attacked and stoned tho soldiers and police. The latter charged with batons and dispersed the dense crowds of sympathisers. After mass in Cork Cathedral for tho repose of the souls of tho rebels who lost their livps through tho rebollion, 300 men, women, and girls marched in procession to tho Town Hall, tore down the municipal fiftg and replaced, it with tho Sinn Fein flag. Tho police dispersed the mob and replaced the flag.