GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 35, 11 February 1916, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

THE KING. WILL NOT OPEN PARLIAMENT. LONDON, February 9. i ; Reuter announces that King George ' was prepared to open Parliament, but ' yielded to medical advice not to undertake it in his present state of con- • valescence. J - EAT LESS SUGAR. SUGAR COMMISSION'S ADVICE. LONDON, February 9. The Sugar Commission announces that owing to the shortage of tonnage, further restriction on importation is necessary. It exhorts the public to reduce the consumption of sugar in jams, biscuits, and sweetmeats in order j to keep the price down, also to influ- | ence the rat e of exchange. PICTURE PEOPLE ALARMED. LONDON, February 9. The probability that the importation of films will be forbidden has* caused consternation in the industry. Speakers at a meeting of the tra.ra stated that if importation is forbidden, the majority of the picture theatres will close down.

A NOTEWORTHY EXHIBIT

LONDON, Feb. 9

Considerable public interest is bein taken in the exhibition of Australian and New Zealand and other Dominion posters at the Mansion Housa. This is part of a vigorous recruiting campaign which Mr. Wakefield recently inaugurated. T-he Lord Mayor also entertained many Australian and *cw Zealand wounded at sea. • The Daily Telegraph remarks: Ih* pictures breathe the virile fighting spirit of our heroic kinsmen overseas. GERMANY'S "FIGHTING MAC." Seme myths die hard. I find (says an English writer) that the belief is quite current again in some quarters that General Sir Hector Macdonald is alive and actually engaged in the present war. At an Edinburgh- recruiting office I overheard this amazing rumcur discussed in all seriousness by a group cf recruits of the labouring class. They alleged that the missing hero was no other than Mackensen. "Hector," declared one, "made it a condition wi' the Kaiser that he widna' fecht against the British. That's why he's been hammering at the Roosians and Serbians. Noo that the Serbians are cleared oot o' their, country and the Germans-and ■ Bulgarians are up against cor men, Mackensen's awa' hame and the Kaiser has thanked him for what he's done. It's as plain as a pikestaff. Mackensen's nae other than 'Fighting Mac'" It is of interest to note in this connection that two of Sir "Hector Masdonald's nephews have been fighting on the Western front in the ranks cf the London Scottish.