THE GUILLOTINE ON "LIMPETS'"

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 286, 29 August 1919, Page 7

THE GUILLOTINE ON "LIMPETS'"

BRITISH RETRENCHMENT CAUSES CONSTERNATION WAR OFFICE AND ADMIRALTY STAFFS REDUCED By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Eec. August 28, 10.5 p.m.) London, August -8. Mr. Lloyd Georgo's ultimatum has caused consternation at Whiloha'l. Wholesale dismissals of so-called ' iimpets" have begun at the ,AVar Office and the Admiralty. Many more will receive notice on September I,—Aua.-N.Z. Cabie Assn. anti-wastelress campaign (Eec. August 28, 10.5 p.m.) London, August %. The newspapers continue their antiwasto campaign. They have unearrhud a new example, in Poole Harbour, where, against expert ,advice, a. quarter o ! a million was expended during 1918 in order to provide an alternative port for cross-Channel traffic. It was subsequently discovered that shipping would be unable to cross-the bar of the harbour during gales, and tho work was abandoned. The harbour was. not used. It is also pointed out that scores of good engines and hundreds of wagons are standing idle at Leeds depot. A vast quantity of Army and Air Force stores are rusting in a derelict depot at Djdcot, which covers eight square miles.. Thousand of ambulances, wagons, \\ ater carts, gun carriages and ■ limbers are axle-deep in iniid. Millions of washleather gloves, tied in bundles, arc utsed as footballs.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. THE PRUNING-KNIfTaT AUSTRALIA HOUSE London, August 27. Considerable reductions are being made in the expenditure on Australia' House, mainly along imporsonal lines, The war has necessitated some increase in the temporary staff. , Tho services of most of theso were dispensed with, but the amount of saving in this respect will only account for three-tenths.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CHARGES OF EXTRAVAGANCE ■ « —■ ■ . ■■ VIGOROUSLY DEFENDED'BY MRLLOYD GEORGE. (Rec. August 28, 10.5 p.m.) London, August 28. Mr. Lloyd George, in a letter to a member of tile House ot Commons, vigorously protests against the charges, of extravagant finance dnd faulty administration involvinu a loss of Government prestige. "It cannot be too strongly emphasised," he eays, "that the primary duty of controlling Departmental expenditure rests inch the Minister, not the Treasury. The only way of ensuring Ministers' cooperative Treasury control lies in the reestablishment of' collective responsibility, which the abolition of Cabinet Governments seems to have entirely destroyed,— Aus.-N.Z. CJable Assn. A COSTLY BURDEN BRITAIN'S 300,000 GERMAN WAR PRISONERS. (Eec. August 28, 9.40 p.m.) Paris, August 27. Steps will probably be taken to secure the early repatriation of Britain's 'three hundred thousand German prisoners who are idling in France and costing .£90,000 a day.—Au9.-N.Z. Cable Assn, •