GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 16, 20 January 1916, Page 4

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

LIQUOR RESTRICTIONS. IN MUNITION AREAS. (Reed. 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 19. The decrease in convictions for drunkenness since the restrictions on liquor-selling is' 50 per Tcent, except in Scotland, where it is only six per cent. Scotland is threatened with more drastic restrictions.

PATRIOTIC WORKERS

DOWN TOOLS AT DUNLOPS

NO TYRES FOR GERMANY

.(Reed. 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, January 19. Several thousand workers at the Dunlbp works at Birmingham, stopped work because they were under the impression that tyres were finding their way to Germany through Denmark. They resumed after 'assurance by the Companys' superintendent and the official Ministry of Munitions that 'the goods were not going to Germany.

WHEAT TONNAGE WANTED.

BY BRITAIN, FRANCE AND ITALY

(Reed. 8.5 a.m.) j* LONDON, January 19. f

The Times' attention has been drawn to a circular issued by the Runciman Co., London, inviting tonnage for North American wheat, on behalf of BVitish, Italian 'and French governments, at freights ranging from 16/to 22/6 'a quarter. The circular is freely discussed in the Baltic and there is much comment at the British Government countenancing such extraordinary rates and the possibility of the immunity of such vessels from being requisitioned.

NO MORE FOWNES' GLOVES

A GERMAN TRADING COMPANY.

PROPRIETORS BEFORE THE

COURT

ADMITTED TO BAIL £2OOO EACH.

LONDON, January 19.

William Gurden Rigden, William Fownes Rigden, Stanley Fownes Rigden, partners iu the glove firm of Fownes Bros, are charged with trading with tlie enemy. i" Counsel stated that cor4pppondeifte was found shewing that defendants, who were a branch of a New York German owned company, imported into New i'orK from Germany goods to the value of ,£6OOO, promising to pa .1 after the. war, paying additional in| terest and promising further, big orders. They were remain'.' ■- jn bail of £2OOO, each.

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