GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 59, 14 June 1916, Page 6

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS. Unitid Fbjsss Association. London, June 13. The buoyancy of the Stock Exchange is hardening all round. Consols are at 61-3, and war loans at 90] to 96f. As a result of conferences of the British and French Governments, a scheme is nearing completion to limit the importation of wool #snd woollen "toddles" to France, with a view to stopping speculation. This action is regarded as specially significant, in, view of the general impression that the United States is amassing stocks of manufactured woollens with the intention of flooding the belligerents' markets immediately the war is over.

The Commission on the dilution ot labor, with the men's representatives, has signed a far-reaching agreement regarding the Clyde area. Mr Balfour telegraphed his congratulations. * The Government, through the Liquor Control Board, has purchased all breweries and three hundred publichouses in Carlisle and neighbourhood, and intend to close one hundred public houses and build several model refreshment houses. State-brewed beer will be sold at State-owned houses. It is expected that the Government's action will be repeated elsewhere.