GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 148, 17 November 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

I ALLEGED SPY ARRESTED. jffi- Received 16, 7.35 p.m. > London, November 15. Horgt Vondergotte, " alias Bridgmann Taylor, claiming to be an oflieer of the Mexican army, was arrested for failing to register. Counsel prosecuting stated that the Foreign Office and Admiralty had the gravest suspicion that accused waa a German spy.

GERMAN SEWING MACHINE ! ' TRADE. PREPARATIONS FOR ITS CAPTURE. Received 16, 7.35 p.m. London, November 15. Vickers, Son, and Maxim are erecting a factory so as to capture the German sewing machine trade.

INTERNED MARINES AT PLAY. I Received 16, 5.15 p.m. London, November 15. British marines interned at Holland subscribed 'o purchase a cinematograph, whiclf is nightly used for their amusement.

COTTON MARKET RE-OPEXIXG. GOVERXMEXT ASSISTAXCE. •Received 17, 1.20 a.m. London, November 16. With ew of enabling the Liverpool cotton market to re-open, the Governnent, the Liverpool Cotton Association, tad the Liverpool hanks will jointly guarantee bank advances made to merchants to meet the market differences within certain limits. The Government b taking SO per cent, of the risk, and the other guarantors 25 per cent. each. THE EXPORT OF WOOLLENS. Received 17, 12.30 a.m. London, November 16. The Board of Trade has issued relations governing applications for the ixport of wool and woollens. Licenses or export of raw material and worsted o British territory and allied countries rill be considered .when the material is [eemed unsuitable for army purposes, 'he export of kbaki cloth is absolutely inhibited, except for military purposes if the Dominions.