AMERICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 25 June 1917, Page 5

AMERICA.

FOOD CONTROL BILL PASSED. Received 10.40. WASHINGTON, June 24. iTTe House has passed the Food Control Bill, including a drastic amendment prohibiting the manufacture of intoxicants for the duration of the war and authorising the President to commandeer existing stocks of spirits. The voting was 366 to 5. MATCHES IN BALES OF .COTTON. Received 9.15 a.m. LONDON, June 24. American matches have been found ■in bales of cotton in Lancashire, where there has been an epidemic of fires. 1 It is attributed to German sympathisers in America. BRITISH FOOD PROBLEM THE FOOD PROFITEERS. Receeived 9.40 a.m. LONDON, June 24. % Newspapers are clamouring for Lord Rhondda to stop profiteering to meet the output. New Zealand lamb, according to official prices, reaches retailors at 104 d per lb., yet consumers pay 1/10. They urge the imprisonment of profiteers. RECONSTRUCTING RECONQUERED TERRITORIES. A FRENCH SCHEME. Received 9.15. ' LONDON, une 24 r , . The Observer’s Paris correspondent says the intervention of the United States and the fact that the Russian inactivity threatens to prolong the war, has resulted in an international movement to commence the reconstruction of the ruined districts and the economic energies of France without awaiting the conclusion of peace. There is no real scarcity of labour in the industrial world; 44,860 firms are employing 1,470,000 men and women where they employed 1,522,000 before the war. Agriculture, however, ' lacks 200,000 men, the mines 60,000; while, 30,000 are wanted to repair the "havoc in the liberated territories; 100,000 are required for army work upon roads and railways, making a total deficiency of 400,000. France hopes America will send either labourers or soldiers which will enable the demobilisation of Frenchmen above forty-five.

FANTASTIC SCHEME PROPOSED BY ASHMEAD BARTLETT. Received 9.15. LONDON, June 24. Mr Ashmead Bartlett, in the Sunday Times, proposes that the Allies should immediately make terms with Turkey and Bulgaria on the basis of Turkey regaining Thrace and Constantinople, after the Straits are made an international highway under joint Turkish and American control, the forts to be dismantled. The Allies should assist Bulgaria and Turkey financially, and they should be allowed to repudiate all war indebtedness to the Central Powers. BRAZIL’S REVOCATION. WASHINGTON, June 22. The Brazilian Note to the United States notifying Brazil’s revocation of neutrality, stated that Brazil “can no longer stand unconcerned when the United States, actuated solely for the sake of international judicial order, has become involved, and when Germany has included us and other neutrals in the most violent acts of war.”