GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 26 July 1915, Page 7

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

MOTOR COMMISSIONS. Li. :PAID BY GOVERNMENT, COURT REVELATIONS. “ (Reed 9.31) -a.im) LONDON, ■ July 23. lA. case in the King’s-Bench, over disputed commissions Tor .-selling motorcai.'s to the War Office, reL ve aled that th e various amounted to £4fijfsho-onten per cent, c f the purchase money, which, the judge pointed out r -the-Government was practically paid. , NO SLAVERY .ALLOWED.

IN CAPTURED GERMAN AFRICA

FORCED LABOUR FREED. (Reed 12.45 pp.m.) LONDON, July 23. Th e ani-slavery .society, in a letter to Nr Bonar Law, urges the liberation of any forced labour found in German South-west Africa, Togoland, and the * Camercons. Mr Bonar Law, in reply, said that doubtless th e administration in German territories now occupied, the British forces would .mot allow the continuance of practices repugnant to British methods. Mr Runchnan .in .he House of Commons announced .thatithe Government had already given the French Admiralty and railways the benefit of the arrangement between our Admiralty and the Welsh Colliers, both Admiralties benefiting-by-the prices secured in existing' contracts. Russia and Italy, when they expire, would rdteive simidair tireatment, to