FIGHTING THE PROFITEER.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3315, 20 October 1919, Page 5

FIGHTING THE PROFITEER.

___——o—_._ ACTIVITY IN ENGLAND fins» LONDON, Oct. 18. Mr Mc_Curdy, M.P., addressing ‘.119 Food Confel-enc'e, said the Government had been strenuously attacking hi.g.l prices. During the few Weeizs since the Pl-ofiteering Act‘, was passed, 1600 local trilbunals _ha.'6. been establislieol, and 1350 prosecutions brought forward,‘ resulting ‘in 1320 convictions and fines amounting to £7060 Several important retail ol'ganiselfiolls, including grocers and drapers, were voluntarily developing "—C.hc—nlcS whereby prices could be reduced and the profiteor eliminated.

‘STILL AT WAR. AMERICAN TROOPS IN SILESIA. WASHINGTON,, Oct. 18_ Mr Brandegee, in the Senate, questioned the dispatch of American troops and police to Silesia, demanding by what right they were senththere. Mr Wadsworth replied that their dispatch arose from the. fact that, technically, the United Statés is still at war with Germany.

Mr Nelson sai_d troops were sent in":-.rel,v to ensure the holding of a pl?.'-b----iscite under fair conditions. 4 ~Mr Hitchcock contended that the Senate was certain to pass the PeaceTreaty without changes or reservations and the knowledge of this fact was embittering its opponents-. Ratification of peace in European countries involved £1 Silesian plebiscite. .. Mr eLn Roofi claime dthat the treaty would not be ratified by America 'unless with the addition of at r"es‘ervation providing that ’Unite'rl States" troops. éhould not beused‘ without the consent‘ of Congress. ‘ -‘ -\ T DESPARADOES ON "THE 7BA_T.TL:E‘FIELDS. 5 ‘ ENGAGED IN GANGS.

' GUILTY OF MURDER AND PILLAGE." * 5 Received 8.45 a.m_ .. PARIS, Oct. 18. Recently a South African ‘negro named Albers, previously serving in 2. British Labour. Corps,_wasV courtniartialled and shot at Lille. Invcsti—gations proved he wasvythe head of~a formidable gang of dcserters, who had been tcrrorising the old battleiields,_ plundering and murdering. The gang operated on the Somme, then near Passchendaele, where the victims included three women who were visiting the graves of the. fallen. A large force of military police was envgaged, who tracked the despcradoe-s to their lairs, which consisted of well provisioned dugouts. The gang mul'dcred the household of 9. farmer at Fleres. and later killed two other farmers and rifled their houses_ Albcrs (luai'r'ellcd with an accomplice named Stevens over the distribution of the booty, and killed Stevens. Three other accom—pliccs Were executed in Belgium. and the fourth was sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude. ' TYPHUS IN SIBER-lA. H DREADFUL MORTALITY. Received 8.2 M a.rm. ‘ ' OMSK, Oct. 18. An American Red Cross Mission yworking in Western Siberia. reports a "typhus epidemic. l'Dh.ere have {Keen ‘130,000 cases among Siberian troops i since January, and there are now 6000 1 fresh cases daily. Koltcha.k’s~ reverses i are mtributcd to lack of sanitary faci- ’ lities. The disease is spreading rapidly .among the civil populaftrion owing To !Bolshevik refugees crowding together lin cities and livin,rf in dugout/s in "Fhe ; fields-. Child mol’tal'it.y is 30 per cent.

GRAFTING Ol‘ G4L.ANDS. POSSIBILITIES OF MEDICAL SCIENCE. ‘ Reeei.{7ed 8.25 am. IPARIS, Ocf. 18. Professor Ve-ronefi, writing in Le Journal, in connection with his reconsl: work respecting the ‘grafting -of glands, says the secretions ofeertain glands live ‘three hours after the death of the body. The professor advnocates ltlxe removal of such glands from healthy persons aeoidonfally killed for grafftixlg into persons sufiering from illnesses which the grafting of new glamls would remove. Vloronefl Hm-e-ntions ‘such glands can be c6—?l‘sTe"l"Ved for a. considerable fime in. cold sfoliwagc.

NAVAL CONTRIBUTION STOPPEDH BY SOUTH AFRICA UNION. BLOEMFONTEIN, Oct. 17. Before closing, the National Congress adopted Genei-al Hertzog’s motion that the. Union Govez-nment’s contribution towards the maintenance of the Navy be discotinued. » REUNION Ol‘ CHURCHES. ’ “THE WILJI. TO AGREE.” Received 9.15 a.nl, LONDON, Oc't--. 18. In connection with the Church Con~ gl'L‘ss at I.eieesl'el-, 21 Christian reunion meeting was addressed by Anglicans and Non-eon.t'onnist's. The Bishop of Petel'bOrongh, presiding. acknowledged the helpfulness of the Non—confomnists to the Congress, and pnaycd ‘the day‘ fiwould soon come €v'llen they would be‘ one in spirit. Christians in this coun—*: try had wholly changed recently. Ins+te:l.d of the will to differ, there was i now the will to agree. The Rev. Carnegie Simpson (Presby-i "rerian), declared if -some pnéctical step: for reunion was not laken in reasonable ' time, a. reaction might arise in the Non— _. ennformisfc Churches. -

DUTCH ADVANCES T 0 GERMANY. TO IMPROVE RATE. OF EXAGHAANGE. Received 10.25 a.m. ‘ AMSTER‘DAI\![, Oct. 19. The Ber-liner 'l‘agel3latt stfixtes that Dutch financial institutions are jointly providing Germany with credits totalling fifty million gulden for the purchase. of’ raw materials, conditional on a proportion of :rn:lmlf=actures _ therefrom being; oxpol‘t(§cl.. I'osul’ting in improving thn rate of exchange. VISCOUNT ASTOR. DEAD. Received 10.25 a.m._ _A . A »LOND.O§,i ocg, _,19. Obitua.r.y‘: Viscount Ast-ol‘.“=, _ M _ _. ‘ = V ‘ .'Receive(l 10.'w25 a.m. ' 5 W ‘ ‘ ’ ’ LONDON, Oct. 'lB. Cotton: Ndvexilbel', 21.93. ' Jute: Quiet; Oc‘r'ober-Nove.m_bel', £6B. Hemp: Inactive; high point four, Oc‘tobcl'—De<_3enlbmj. £46, . Rubber: Para, £3O; plantation and—smoked, £27 10/. - " Copra: Steacly; Oc.tober7Dece'mber, £53. l _ ‘A Linseed oil, 91/. i ' Turpentine, _125/. V_

MUTINY ON OIL TANKS. Received 9.15 a..m . LONDON, Oct. 18. ‘Cody, firemari concerned in ‘the aboard the oil tank steame-1' (cabled on Scptelnb<el'_]s's*) was so.ntonc'e‘fl to fivé years’ penal servifude at Dorches-tor Assizc-S, and Council and. Lynch (also firemen) to eighfeen months.