GENERAL CABLES.

Taihape Daily Times, 11 July 1918, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

o THE CONQUERED COLONIES MUST NOT GO BACK. LONDON, July 9. The “Globe,” commenting on Mr. Lloyd George’s address to Americans, in which he said we did not want to dispossess Germany of her inheritance, asks “Are the conquered colonies to be treated as part of Germany’s inheritance? If so, we assure Mr Lloyd George that the Dominions will have something to say. If that is 'Mr Lloyd George’s idea we recommend him to get in closer touch with national opinion.”

POST-WAR CONTROL OF WOOL

CONSERVING SUPPLIES POE

ALLIES

Received 8.50 a,m,

LONDON, July 10

No section of British traders is more alive to the need of preparing for post-war trade resumption than the wool traders. Several committees are constantly sitting considering a scheme for submission to the Government with a view to enabling the wool trade to revert to normal conditions at the earliest possible opportunity after peace is declared. Hopes are entertained that they will be> able to formulate a scheme which will operate the instant the Government’s army requirements cease It is admitted that the Government must, as already announced, control the supply of raw material, giving the Allies the first call upon wool for soinfe period, but the trade believes wool auctions can be esumed as soon as the war is ended, and similarly control wool manufacturers.

FIGHTING IN ALBANIA.

ITALIANS DEVELOP THEIR

SUCCESS.

LONDON, July 9

Italian official —The Albanian action continues. On the left wing, after artillery preparation in which British monitors effectively participated, the infantry from the Lower Vojussa carried, after a bitter struggle, the heights between Lcvani and Pojani monastery Meanwhile, the cavalry attacked the enemy in the rear and destroyed several bridges over the Metali. Wc captured Fieri, also strongly defended positions at Cafaglava Corocof, also Heights of Cafadovris at the head of Tomorica. Prisoners now exceed 1300. Wireless Austrian official Pressure of the enemy forces advancing across the Vojussa continues. There has been fighting westward of Berat,, in connection with which the French gained ground on the Upper Dcvoli, BRITAIN'S ENEMY ALIENS. ASTONISHING STATEMENTS. LONDON, July 9. In the House of Lords, Lord Beresford declared that the lenient treatment of aliens was intensely irritating to the public. He had received 3000 letters in protest in a fortnight. Uninterned male enemy subjects numbered 12,600, whereof 6000 were Germans, including some in every department of the State. Fifty-seven were still serving as British consuls. (Lord Sandhurst replied that the Government appreciated the popular anxiety. Opportunity would be given to discuss the question.

In the House of Commons, the xThu. A. Stanley, in reply to a question, said enemy subjects had made 1310 applications for patents since the outbreak of the war. The Board of Trade granted 944.