LATE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 February 1919, Page 1

LATE NEWS.

AUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE' ASSOCIATION

FOOD PRICES LIKELY TO RISE HONDON, Feb. 15. .Mr Roberts denies that tlie Ministry of Food is bolding up supplies. He says nothing worse could happen than to release control now, as it would send prices up. ’The Treasury was prepared to cut its losses on food stocks alien a particular commodity became stable. The Treasury was prepared L. unload its stocks at world prices, regardless of losses.

NO CHEAPENING YET . LONDON, Feb. 16. Mr. CJynes, Labour Deputy Leader, in an interview, said there was no substantial reduction in food prices probable until greatly Increased overseas supplies arrive.

ALIENS BEING DEPORTED. LONDON,> F'l'b. U. The violinist Soennus and two other Jew Bolsheviks who are propagandists have been deported from England. The Government has decided on a policy of clearing the country of undesirable aliens, and directly Russian ports are avilablo all undesirables will be returned en masse. BRITISH MINISTERS. PARIS, February 13. Lord Milner acts on the British delegation in place of Mr Lloyd George during the latter’s absence from Paris. Lord Reading returns to America next week, and takes up his former Ambassadorieal duties for a few months. Then lie resumes the Lord Chief Justiceship in England. BIG AIRSHIP. LONDON, Feb. 14. The latest tvpe of Admiralty airship is about the size of a Zeppelin, and is believed to be capable of a non-stop, journey to America. It carries 3 days fuel, and travels at the rate of seventy miles an hour.