GREAT BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 105, 26 September 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN

W ENDING THE MORATORIUM.

W Times and Sydney Sun Services. m Received 25, 6.25 pjn. y" London, September 24. ' Tlio Government, after consultation With the various interest*, is ending the moratorium on bills of exchange, retailers' debts, and rents. As regards other Bebts, there will an extension of a •tenth. The moratorium ends on NoTember 4tb. «J" , GENERAL ITEMS. !^i' *j.' Received 25, 11.5 p.m. ,■* London, September 24.

Mr Stanley Buckmaster succeeds Ha Smith as Director of the Press Bureau. Hi Smith goes to the front. A sentry fatally bayonetted MacLeod, \k coastgnardsman at Berwick, thinking kc was a spy. v„ »' COMFORTS FOR "TOMMY." —' APFBAL TO WOMEN OF THE ta EMPIRE. ,- Times and Sydney Sun Services, gp Received 25, 6.25 p.m. r* ■• London, September 24. ' In Ticw of winter requirements. Lord Kitchener has asked the Queen to supply 300,000 belts, knitted or woven, and 900,000 pairs of socks, available in NoYember. The Queen is willing to accede to the request, and asks the women of she Empire to assist in the making.

j A SIGNIFICANT APPLICATION. Times and Sydney Sun Services. w > Heceivcd 25, 8.25 p.m. /*""""* London, September 24. Aghakhan, the temporal 'Bead of the Mohammedans in India, has applied to the War Office to serve as a private in the Indian contingent.