OVERSEAS FINANCE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 280, 20 August 1915, Page 5

OVERSEAS FINANCE.

j ' PROPOSALS SUBMITTED BRITISH GOVERNMENT WILL ASSIST. (Reed 11.35 a.m) LONDON, August 19. Mr (conferred .wiith High Commissioners and Agents-General of Australia, Canada, and South Africa and a representative of th e Indian Government in regard to Overseas financial necessities for 1915-16. Mr McKenna was sympathetic, and pledged the British Government’s cordial co-operation in the various proposals submitted and discussed. The Conference was adjourned for thre e weeks to enable representatives to further consult their respective governments. SIR JOHN FRENCH’S REPORT. NOTHING DOING. LONDON, August 19. Sir John French reports that there have been no important incidents since the communique on the 10th, when we recaptured positions at Hooge and consolidated the trenches there. We have been since subjeetd to an occasional bombardment, but there has been no infantry fighting except two small bombing attacks on Tuesday, which v/ere easily repulsed. There have been intermittent unimportant artillery engagements on the remainder of the front.

NATIONAL LABOUR CONFERENCE IMPORTANT RESOLUTION PASSED (Reed 1 p,m,) PARIS, August 13 The National Labour Conference appeals to International Proletariat to demand compulsory arbitration, the suppression of secret diplomacy had the cessation of comuetitive armaments It approves an American suggestion for an International Labour Conference at, the same r : "CS and date as the diplomatists* peae 3 conference.