WOOL COMMANDEER

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2937, 24 November 1916, Page 5

WOOL COMMANDEER

ENGLISH MARKET EXCITED iurtraJifla-New Zealand Cable Association. London, November 22. The wool markets at London and Bradford are greatly excited. There was a great scramble for spot lots, at sensational prices, owing to reports of tho Government's acquisition of the New Zealand clip. There are grave fears ■Jest the Requisition bo extended to Australian crossbreds. Private, cables to leading wool houses indicate that the. New Zealand Government has definitely announced its intention to buy and hold the clip, and has concluded negotiations with the growers. The news that faulty merinos may be exported from Australia caused great satisfaction to American traders, but fears aro expressed that this may have been rendered imperative by Mr. Hughes's conference. . Bradford is apprehensive lest this means the requisition of the whole of the Australian clip. australtatTWool clip COMMANDEER EXPECTED. (Rec. November 23, 9.15 p.m.) Melbourne, November 23. A Federal regulation prohibits the sale of wool and sheepskins without perniiagion. It is believed that this action is a preliminary to the Commonwealth taking over the wool clip. " WAR SLAVES " OF GERMANY DEPORTED BELGIANS AND PRISONERS Australian-New Zealand Cabl# Association, , Rome, November 22. The Idea Nazionale" states that' Germany is compelling her prisoners to work in shipyards. They have constructed more than two hundred merchantmen during the war period; Amsterdam, November 22. The deported men from Ghent have been sent ix> tho Sommo , front, wherfc they are employed digging trenchcs and making wire entanglements. OTHER NEUTRALS WITHIN REACH DEPORTED. ("The Timos") (Rec. November 23, 7.20 p.m.) _ . London, November 22. The Germans have initiated, a compulsory registration of Luxemburgers and hwiss residing in.- Belgium. They have already deported the Luxemburgers. THE CONSCRIPTION OF POLAND SLAVE LEVY TO BE EXTENDED. fEeutcr's Telegram.) _ ,Zurich, Novembor 22. . -sports from Warsaw istate that the Ausfcro-Gemian summons to the Russian 1 oles to ]om the army will' not be con- ■ T ~ 6 110,7 kingdom, but will include other occupied districts, GERMAN PRESS THREATS TO OBJECTORS. ■ Amsterdam, November 22. German papers generally are shocked at what they characterise as the ungrateful and irreconcilable attitudo of the Prussian Polea regarding their incorporation in the future kingdom of Poland. The "Kelnischo Zoitung" warns them of the oonsequences of continued hostility towards Prussia. Havre, November 22. King Albert hag protested to the Pope, King Alfonso of Spain, and President Wilson against the .deportation of his subjeots. King Alfonso has protested to Germany. CANADA'S NEW DEFENCE MINISTER ' ' ("The Times.") _ London, November 22. The "Times" correspondent at Toronto reports that tho Hon. A; E. Komp (Minister without portfolio) will succeed Major-General Sir Sam Hughes as Minister fo* Militia and Defence in the Canadian Cabinet. The "Koelnlsche Zeitung" Bays tiiat fiermany intends to use land cruisers superior. to the "tanks," which are regarded aa too 6low and not heavily enough armoured.