Great Britain

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 192, 22 January 1915, Page 5

Great Britain

i- if■ r ~ ! —• THE FINANCIAL RESTRICTION'S. PRUDENCE EXEMPLIFIED. a s WELL RECEIVED INT COMMERCIAL CIRCLES. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 21, 5.40 p.m. j London, January 21. The Times, in a leader, say* fliai when six hundred millions I1&V9 ijeen spent 011 the war alone in a year, it is only tlie merest prudence for the Government to lay down restrictions on th<; outflow of capital in other channels. Its action at this moment consequently caused no particular surprise in financial circles, and was very calmly received in the city and 011 the Stock ExT change. e RUSSIA AND VODKA. A LECTURER'S VIEWS. FRENCH' PIAPER'S VIEWS. AN ENTRANCE" OF SMALL STATES. London, January 20. Lecturing before the British National Liberal Club, Stephen Graham declared that if the prohibition of vodka was permanent, Russia, after the war, would have extraordinary power. It would be necessary to provide education for industrial communities to occupy the time formerly spent over vodka. Russia would take its place as a western power of virtue and industrialism. Times and Sydney Sun Services London, January 20. The Paris Figaro .states that Italy, Roumania, Bulgaria and Greece are about to enter the war, Italy and Rotil mania attacking Austria and Bulgaria > and Greece settling accounts with Tur- ' key. | • Members of the Roumanian Sanitary ; Commission visiting the battlefield dc- ! clared that Roumania had decided to liberate all compatriots oppressed by : the Hungarian yoke. AN IMMIGRATION STANDSTILL. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 21, 5.40 p.m. London, January 21. The Immigrants' Information Office has announced that, owing to recruiting for the war, assisted passages to Australasia have been practically suspended. THE PEACE CONFERENCE. THE NET RESULT. BELGIUM MUST NOT BE ANNEXED. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 21',""6.40 p.m. London, Jan;.iary 21.

The net result of the Copenhagen conference was a resolution, directing the attention of workers, particularly of the belligerent countries, to the principles of international solidarity and the proletarian sense of justice as to stopping a war caused by capitalism. The conference protests against the violation of Belgium, and expects all Social Democrats vehemently to oppose its forcible, annexation. r UNEMPLOYMENT DECREASED. London January 20, 1 returns of 23,000 industrial firms shojv that, unemployment has decreased siniki July. The trades most adversely aft'ebted are the building, cotton and furniture trades. GERMAN PESSIMISM. REGIMENTS WIPED OUT. London, January 20. Eye-Witness states that there seems to be a difference in the feeling in the German ranks to that of some weeks ago. They now realise that a victorious advance is out of the question, and that their duty is to merely hold ground. Though the idea that Germany iB going to gain an advantage commensurate to her sacrifice seems to have disappeared, few contemplate the possibility of a defeat and invasion. The latest German casualty lists show that several regiments have practically vanished as a result of wholesale slaughter in Poland. SOCIALIST PEACE CONFERENCE. Lonjon, January 20. A Copenhagen message says that the International Socialist Peace Congress was regarded as a kind of Trafalgar Square demonstration and a premature movement. Three thousand citizens attended a meeting at the Town Hall ia favor of stopping the war.