GENERAL CABLES

Taihape Daily Times, 4 February 1918, Page 4

GENERAL CABLES

FIVE SHILLING NOTES.

NOT NECESSARY YET.

LONDON, Feb 1

Mr. Bonar Law stated in the House of Commons that the Government had no intention at present of issuing fiveshilling notes, but a small stock was being printed, in readiness for a possible , silver emergency. LABOUR AND THE WAR. UNIONISTS’ ATTITUDE SOUND. “WAR TO VICTORY.” Received 8.55. / LONDON, Feb 3. A special article in the Labour petition says the best observers believe that most of the anxiety existing today regarding British workers is without foundation. The restlessness is largely superficial, oTTe'to the long and continuous oversTfaTn and the ever-increasing prices. The hardships of strikers are to be expected, but these are unlikely to extend or be prolonged unless they are mishandled. Eighty per cent of the unionists are supporting the war to victory, and Bolshevikism and pacificism have made little progress on British unions. ISjIT A GERMAN TRICK? LONDON, February 2.

A section of the London Press flatly describe tbo German strike as clever camouflage, designed to incite revolt and tlie spread of pacifism in British industrial districts. They especiallj' support the engineers ’ attitude towards the man-power scheme. The workers are warned against the attempt to trap them in a conspiracy but it is generally believed the majority are incapable of being fooled. The “Times” commenting on Mr. Henderson’s letter, suggests that the Government modify its attitude towards the engineers.

AIR RAIDS ON GERMANY.

LONDON, February 2

The Press Bureau gives details of tho raids on Germany, cabled on January 25th. Large quantities of botub.s were dropped on Treves, Thionville, and Saarburg Railway Junction. Aviators machine-gunned villages in Moselle Valley, also trains and buildings at various places. Naval gunners sinrutaneously bombed the soda factory and clocks at Mannheim and the town of Thionville. Heavy explosions and fires resulted.