LATE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 1 November 1918, Page 4

LATE NEWS.

SCRAPPING LUXURY WORK. NEW YORK. August 21. At the close of a conference ol the field agents in the United States Em])loymcnt Service, held at W asliington to-dav the following statement was issued by Air Nathan A. Smyth on behalf of the Department of Labour: —■ ‘‘lf we are to win the war quickly the production of luxuries and nonessentials must come to an end. Manufacturers must give up the creation of needless goods, workers must be willing to change from non-essential to war production, even at hardship to themselves and the public at large must stop buying luxuries.” , > There is a shortage throughout the country of a million unskilled labourers needed in various war industries. To remedy this condition and provide workers to take the places of those to be called up under the new Man-Power Hill, the Community Labour Hoard of tho District of Columbia has set an example which community labour boards throughout the country are expected immediately to follow. It has announced a list of 24 classes of work regarded Ins non-essential. Employees in these | classes are summoned voluntarily to rei lease their unskilled labour for war i work.

STARVING AMERICANS ESCAPE With the Americans, Aug. 24.

There are no indications of a German withdrawal from the V cs!o to the Aisne. Prisoners taken in the last few days and in a raid,on a tannery last night near Eismes assert that they have orders to hold the Vesle line, but the French advance north-west of Soissons menaces this line. In the Fismes region yesterday a d on Tuesday two Americans who hal lain in No Alan’s Land tor some time crawled into tho American lines. One of them. Private IlSirold Harman, of .Mount Carmel, Illinois, had spent 8 days in a shell-hole without food. The only water he drank was from the shell hole and that was poisoned by gas. Flis attempts to reach bis lines were ('(instantly observed by the Germans. Snipers on both sides of his shelter fired at him frequently, machine-guns were turned on him, and the Gormans even sent aeroplanes to pour bullets into him. But he eventually crawled in at night, very weak, b-n in good spirits. The other man. Private Alike l.etnnnovski, of Langley, Illinois, spent HI days in a German dug-out without food and with little water before lie managed to reach the American lines last'night in a state of exhaustion.

AIR. ROOSEVELT’S £O,OOO GIFTS NEW YORK, Aug. 24

From the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to him for services in connection with the peace of Portsmouth, which closed the Russo-Japanese AYar, Air Roosevelt has made awards to all kinds ol war institutions in all the Allied countries, thus distributing over £9,000. These gifts are in extraordinary variety, and include £IOO to the acting American Vice-Consul at Harbin, and Vlndivostock for the CV.echo-Slovnks, “the extraordinary nature of whose great and heroic leat is literally unparai lelcd, so far as 1 know, in ancient or modern warfare;” £IOO to -Mine. Major Botchkareva for use as a token of respect for those Russians who have refused to follow the Bolsheviks in their betrayal of Russia, of the Allies, an I the cause ol‘ liberty throughout the world; £IOO to Mr. Paul Sbimmon for use among Armenians and Assyrian Christians.

Another £IOO is given to Judge Joseph L. Nuiiaii, of Georgetown, Demerara, for wounded soldiers and their families in Ireland, because lie believes in Home Rule within the Empire and stands uncompromisingly for prosecuting the war with all possible efficiency until tho enemy is overthrown.”