MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 July 1917, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

FOOD POSITION EASIER. (Reuter’s Telegrams.) > (Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) LONDON,, July 21. Mr. Kennedy Jones explains that he t resigned because a special food economy r campaign was not so necessary now the t harvest was i l *. t q STARVATION IMPOSSIBLE P VANCOUVER, Jury - c A message from London states that t Mr Lloyd George stated that there r was adequate food in Britain for 1917 and 1918. Starvation was impossible. FOOD PRICES. LONDON, July 20. The Press Bureau states: The Food d controller announces jthnlt maximum b prices for live cattle for army CQunuuijr* li tion for September will be 74 pci p cent; October 72 per cent; November b and December 67 per cent; January d 60 per cent. The maximum will 1)© fixed and cor- t responding.steps will be taken to eon- t t.rol butcher’s profits and the price oi flour will be standardised to enable v bread to be- sold at uinepence per quar- I ter. t FINLAND'S AUTONOMY. PETROGRAD, July 21. The Finnish Diet has passed a Bill for tho autonomy of Finland rejecting an amendment that the. Bill should first be submitted to the Provision Government. BULGARIA WANTS PEACE. J LONDON, July 21. £ Th© “Morning Post’s” Rom« respondent states that the “Messagero” states that secret Bulgarian «missaries have reached Switzerland with a view ‘to sounding the Entente towards a separate! peace with Bulgaria. Their argument is that the Bulgarians * are not really at war with us, •nly ' with Serbia. Tsar Ferdinand, .who is imitating f the Kaiser, has sent the Socialist leader if, Sakaroff to beguile tiw.r £ Allied and neutral comrades, while three Bulgarian professors are expeo. ©d to insinuate themselves into professorial circles. STEAMERS IN COLLISION. CLAN LINER, SUNK. [Received, This Dav at 8.50. a.m.) - MADRID, July 21. ‘ ' The Italian steamer Europe collided ( with a Clan boat, name unknown, off . Algeeiras. • The latter sank. All tho crow ©.*• cept eight were rescued. t The Europe reached Gibralcu. «•»- damaged. AIR RAID. WARNINGS. 'Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.) LONDON, <J my 22. i It has been officially decided to give air raid warnings in London by th© sound of bombs fired front the mortar placed at the fir© stations. Simultaneously the police will exhibit notices to take cover. POPE TO MEDIATE. FURTHER PEACE MOVE. i (Received, This I)nv at 8.00. a.m.) - NEW YORK, July 21. The “Sun ; s” Romo correspondent says it is apparently certain that the Pope will appeal for peace on the third anniversary of the war, next month. There is good reason to believe that instead of a general exhortation to all warring nations, that the Pope will aim Rt mediation by two nations not technically warring, as the' initial step towards negotiations with belligerents. Such a suggestion clearly alludes to United States and Austria. Reports are reaching the "Vatican, that the Turkish Premier is expected 1 to resign, to make way for a national Cabinet of Liberals favouring peace. AMERICAN BILLS. : WASHINGTON, July 22. | I The Senate passed, the Aviation. Bill,’ with one dissenting vote. * The Senate passed the redrafted Food Bill providing for three food administrators instead of empowering Hoover to full control. It provides for the control of food, fuel, and feed. It _ prohibits the manufacture of intoxicants except beer and win® for the duration of the war. It directs Mr Wilson to I present- stobka of whisky | and fixes the minimum price of wheat : at two dollars till July 1919, in order to r stimulate wheat production -j .. ; d CANADIAN WHEAT OTTAWA, July 22. y The Canadian Grain. Board has fixed g the maximum price of wheat at two dolp. lafs forty cents per bushel