LATE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 5 March 1920, Page 1

LATE NEWS.

ÜBy Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) SHORT ,OF FOOD. LONDON, March .4. It |has transpired that the .Germans have been receiving less than half the nominal food 1 that medical opinion estimated as being necessary for an individual. HIGH SPEED COMMUNICATION. LONDON, March 4. The Marconi Company have inaugurated a direct high speed service between London and New York. They are wiring private direct wires. This service connects the two capitals with wireless.

ITALIAN SOCIALISTS AND SOVIET. ROME, March 3. The Italian Socialist Party are sending a deputy to meet Lenin’s envoys at Copenhagen, Tho Danes are protesting at the .anti Bolsheviks leaving Danish helpers in the luroh at Archangel. PRICE OF RABBITS FIXED. London; March 3. Tho Food Commission has fixed ‘ the maximum wholesale price of rabbits thus: Specials 56s per crate; large 465, medium 38s, small 28s. THE RISE OF PRICES. LONDON, March 4. Tho Allied Supreme Council is considering economic questions. It has ascertained that the wholesale prices of commodities have increased over those ruling before the war as follows: — In France and Italy, 300 per cent. In Britain, 170 per cent. In Japan, 160 per cent. In America 120 per cent .