GALICIA ALMOST CLEAR OF RUSSIANS

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 28 July 1917, Page 5

GALICIA ALMOST CLEAR OF RUSSIANS

* Pathetic Appeal to Russian Patriotism Rushing Fresh Ttoops to Galicia to Stem the Retreat Roumanian Successes in the South

_ FRENCH HOLDING THEIR GROUND

BRITISH FOOD PROBLEM THE CONTROL OF SUPPLIES AND PRICES. LONDON, July 27. In the House of Lords, Lord Rhondda stated that the Board of Trade estimated that the cost of food had doubled to the wage earned and the cost of living had increased 75 per cent. We would not be out of ’Sanger until the result of the Allies’ ' shipbuilding was felt. His policy was to fix the prices of necessaries, the supplies of Which -he could effectively control from the producer to the retailer. Prices would be fixed on the basis of pre-war profits. He was making efforts to prevent speculation and to eliminate unnecessary middlemen. He would press for imprisonment in bad cases of illegal profits. . The policy of subsidising the loaf was only justified by present circumstances. He could not control the pride abroad. He hoped that America would be able to effectively control their supplies. Local authorities would appoint food control committees, including at least one Labourite and one woman. Communal kitchens would be established.

BRITAIN'S .WAR AIMS. NO PALTERING OR WITHDRAWAL LONDON, July 27. In the House of Commons, Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, on behalf of five pacifist Commoners, moveTT a resolution asking the House to endorse the sentiments of the Reichstag resolution and to .re-state peace aims, also that the forthcoming Allied Conference on war aims should include democratic representatives. Mr. Asquith declared that over much importance was attached to the Reichstag resolutions. Peace was of supreme importance to mankind, but the all-important condition was that it must not defeat-the purpose for which the great nations made war. He welcomed he forthcoming ‘Allied Conferenc\ initiated by Prussia, because of the new facts with a practical bearing which had recently emerged, viz., the cessation of autocracy in Rtissia and the entry of the United States. Meantime we would not be helping the advent of peace by giving the impression that we were faltering in our determination or were doubtful about carrying the burden we had taken on. Mr. Wardle associated himself with Mr. Asquith in the desire for peace* based on the achievement of the war’s purposes. Mr. Macdonald said the resolution would be a great mistake. The British Labour forces were inflexibly resolved on victory. They reused that their object was obtainable only by fighting the German people, not seeking to destroy their own shackles, but to impose them on other peoples.

THE RESOLUTION REJECTED. LONDON July 27. Mr. Bonar Law asked what was the good of basing anything on a resolution by a body which did not possess the smallest power in the Reichstag. The resolution demanded freedom of the seas, which meant that a nation with naval power must not use it while one with military power could use it without restriction. Germany must be disabused of her pre-war convictions that national greatness and development depend on readiness to plunge the world into war. He did not despair of the part Russia was going; to play, even in the present conditions, and he concluded by expressing confidence in the ability of the \ Allies to achieve their object. Mr. Macdonald’s resolution was rejected by 148 to 19.