CABLEGRAMS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 January 1917, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS

♦ SEW YivA.K IN 1 GiREAT BRITAIN (Australa-New Zealand Cable Service) iLodon, January 1. There were no New Year Watch services but special prayers were offered for victory at Sunday l services. Thei'e ""'as no bell-ringiing at St. Paul's. Restaurants were closed and no New Year Festivities were lieki. Extraordinary ficenes were witnessed in Glasgow. Throughout the week long queues, mainly of women, were waiting outside the llieensed shops in order to purchase whisky ■ which was unsaleable between Friday and Tuesday. Though the public houses were closed, it was feared that the traditional revekyi associated with hogmanay would continue in private. The New Year holiday for the munition workers, shipyards and engineering shops lasts from noon on Saturday till Thursday morning, instead of for ten days, in peace tme. The shipbuilding and engineering masters are not satisfied that maximum efficiency has been reached. They do not complain that the men are drunken,, but owing to the great increase in earning power there has been an extension of the habit oF talking alcoholic refreshment. Men who formerly drank at week-ends now drink every night, and certain slackness has crept in. Some jobs take 50 per cent extra time. Liquor restrictions have maxle littfle difference in lost timo which still averages 20 per cent. The masters believe the Clyde workmen would accept prohibition without a great outcry. I.W.W.'S CHRISTMAS ACTIVITY IN UTAH. (Reuter Telegram). Salt Lake City, 'Dec. 2G. The city is in a panic, becaufie wholesale - attempts have been made to kill prominent people. On Christmas morning explosives were placed under the house of the Governor, Mr Spry. The bomb did not explode An infernal machine was sent to Mr James Jennings, a capitalist. Several suspects have been arrested. They are friends of Joseph Hillstram, who was executed three years ago for a similar outrage.