MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

Hokitika Guardian, 9 August 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS

ECONOMIC POLICY. •LONDON, Aug. 7. * I Hon. Bonar Law, in the House of * • Commons, said Government s economic ~ | policy would be announced. on the re- " J sumption of the session in mid-October. ■ i > J THE GALLIPOLI RIBBON. LONDON, August 7 The ribbon for Gallipoli service, award od to those who actually landed oh the Peninsula, lias been approved. It consists of two outer edges of yellow and silver symblical of the wattle and the fern respectively. A central hand of of blue is separated from the yellow and silver by two narrow red stripes. [ AEROPLANE MAIL FOR ’ ] NEW ZEALAND.

(Received This Day at 11 25. a.m.) LONDON, August 8. Sir Joseph Ward speaking at the Automobile Club said he had decided to introduce aeroplanes into New Zealand to carry the mails from end to end of the country as soon as the war was over. SENSIBLE AMERICAN METHODS. , (Received This Dav at 10.15. a.vn > WASHINGTON, August 8. The Government Commission lias recommended that the Government control through the railway administration, all stock yards, and treat them ns freight depots, ensuring open competition, also the monopolisation of all cold storage needed for the transpo of same. The object of the recommendation is to suppress combines c> trolling tho meat trade.

SHIPPING POSSIBILITIES

(Received This Dav at 10.15. -i.m 1 NEW YORK, August 8.

Archibald liurd, the Naval authority, 'commenting on the Admiralty’s shipping returns, says that unless the Germans hit. upon a more effective means of r 4 tack, which is always possible, the output of the shipyards will outpace ! sinkings and with the .assistance of the American yards, the defeat of the Gorman piracy, ns far as can be foreseen, is definite.

SPEEDING UP SUPPLIES. Received, this dav at 8.46 a.m. BERNE, Aug. 3

All munition factories in Austria and Germany received an urgent appeal from the military authorities, to increase their production of war material at nil costs in order to replace the enormous losses of guns and ammunition sustained in the recent unfortunate offensives in Italy and France. CAUSE AND EFFECT. 'Received This Dav at 11.25. a.in.) - ZURICH, August. 8. The ouput of war material in the Rhino provinces is greatly reduced, owing to the Allies air raids destroying the factories.