News from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 208, 11 February 1915, Page 5

News from England

HIGH PRICES OF FOOD. government action urged. MINERS USEFUL AT THE FRONT. WHAT TI-IE FINANCIAL COMBINE MEANS. A WAII TO A FINISH. London, February !). The Economist, discussing the rise in food prices, says they arc bound to reach the highest point reached for forty-thre<. years. The purchasing-power of wages bus fallen 7 per cent, in one month. Ma:iv farmers continue to hold wheat, and the blockade threat will be used to hoist prices. Unless t.iere is some improvement in the position the Government will be driven to take over staple foodstuffs or re-enact maximum prices !n order to save the poorer classes from widespread sufferings. A German wireless message announces that, at the new Khedive's request, Lord itchener will visit Cairo at the end of tbe month, and that probably the Prince of Wales will accompany him. The West Yorkshire coal owners have conceded nil the men's demands until the end of the war.

DEARER BREAD. Received in, 5.5 p.m. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, February 10. The price of the quartern loaf has been raised to eightpence.

BAGPIPES IK RECRUITING. Received 10, 5 5 p, m . Times and Sydney Su n Services. T - London, February 10. Itirry Lauder lias i-i-pmiised a band of pipers to tour Scotland to stimulate recruiting.

DILATORY PUBLICITY. Times and Sydney Sun Seviccs. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. London, February 10. 11l the House of Commons, Mr Joyn-son-Hieks, M.l\, complained that though the Turks captured Tabriz o„ January fitli it was not announced in the Press till the 13th. Britishers, lie said, did not mind knowing the truth, however bad.

TYPHOID' AMONG TROOPS. THE VALUE OF INOCULATION. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. London, February 10. Mr H. J. Tcnnant, Secretary for War, in the House of Commons, stated that 421 cases of typhoid had occurred among the British forces, 350 of the cases hoi among uninoculatcd men, within two years. There hud been thirty deaths and in thirty-four eases the victims h.id net been inoculated.

NO SHORT AO E OF MEN*. BUT LACK OF NEWS. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. London, February lfl. Mr Long urged the Government to lake the country into its confidence regarding the recruiting. Tliere was one risk. lie said, of telling the enemy something lie should not know, but ther* w.is the other risk of discouraging our own people. Personally lie preferred the first risk. He believed they could get many men as they wanted, provided that we made clear that the men wo™ really wanted. He hoped the War Office' Woi:l I publish widely oar treatment rf German prisoners. He urged that letters ironi wounded soldiers sliouhl he cm l ied post free. Mr Byles asked whether any m'sfortune or disasters liad been coneeaiel from the nation. The nation ought to be told whether it had lost or not lost off the coast of Treland. Highly qualified and experienced journalists were not permitted to approach the trenche-*, but amateur journalists were allowed to send trivial, belated, and inadequate accounts of events for which the natiim was thirsting.

THE GERMANS' MAI) POLICY. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Loudon, February 0. The Times' military coiTesponde.it says: "We havo seen squadrons 1>0!n----barding our undefended ports, Zepr."lins dropping bombs on open towns, and submarines sinking nierch imtincn. We would have paid them to come, for sinre the Scarborough raid we have recruited an army corps in a week. The threat of piracy leaves us cord. If German teeth like to bite granite, why shonld'it they? The madness of the German people is likely to alfeet their and lead to adventures that no sane leader would sanction in his calm moments."

MILITARISM IX" WOMEN'S FASHIONS'. Times and Sydney Sim Services. I-owlon, February !). All tile new fashions in Paris partake of the military cut and liave martial names. A neat blue serge with Mack sash nn severe lines is called "The Kitchener." A small khaki with ste-I buttons is named after Cencral Frem-h. An extremely popular costume of fie new uniform blue is "The .TofTrc."

PAIXS IN THE STOMACH. While tliis ailment is not dangerous, it is not at all pleasant, and anyone who is subject to attacks of it will be pleased to learn bow quick relief may be bad. A dose of Chamberlain's Colic and Dirrhoea Remedy in a little water is all that is needed. It is an ideal remedy for this complaint for it always .nffects immediate relief and is pleasant to take. AH chemists and storekeepers.