News from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 228, 5 March 1915, Page 5

News from England

BOMBS DROPPED IN SCOTLAND. NO damage done. London, March 3. Two German aeroplanes dropped three bombs, without doing any harm, near Glasgow. WORKERS DURING WAR-TIME. EXE MY OF BRITAIN'S EFFICIENCY. ALIENS TOO WEIL TREATED. London, March 3. The shipyard representatives have accepted the award of Sir O. Askwith. Sir F. Hopwood and Mr Gibbs, for a four (hillings increase and ten per cent, on piecework. The strike committee on the Clyde has ordered the men to return to work on condition that there is no overtime, also if an impartial tribunal by Tuesday has not granted the workers an extra twopence .then they will stay in and a strike will commence in which the workers will do as little as possible. Mr Ramsay Macdonald describes the pamphlet circulated in Germany, abont which a question was asked in the House of Commons, as a distorted version of his article, written seven months ago, against the balance of power policy. Mr Joynson Hicks, in the House of Commons, moved that it was desirable to concentrate the administration of enemy subjects and aliens into the hands of one Minister responsible to the House. He stated that there were seventy thousand aliens in the country, twenty thousand in London, of whom sixteen thousand were of military age. He complained that their treatment was too lenient. Responsibility for internment was divided between the House and the Wr.r Office. Lord Charles Bercsford said it was a singular coincidence that ships which (ailed without a proper escort were blown qp by German submarines. It could not be denied that the Formidable was blown up because her departure was > known to spies.

Mr Tennant said that every alien enemy was under constant police surveillance, and that it was unnecessary to create a special department. , THE "TIMES" CURE FOR STRIKES. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received 4, 5.45 p.m. London, March 4. The Times, in a leader, suggests, as a cure for strikes, taking employers and employees to France to view the ravages and urgent war needs, and shame then into a refusal to continue squabbling over farthings.

Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, March 3. Lieutenant Tayler, of the YorlTand Lancaster Regiment, died of pneumonia at HazcTffenck. St. David's Day saw the "Welsh Guard , on duty at Buckingham Palace for the first time. The Czar as Colonel-in-Chicf of the Scots Greys, has conferred a number of war orders and decorations on the officers and men. Passengers by the Lusitania to New York were required to identify each piece of luggage before it was hoisted on to the ship and to satisfy the officers as to their identity before passing the guards on the gangways. The luggage was scrutinised to prevent the smuggling of in- ~ fernal machines. Mr Lloyd George's references to the effects of drink are unpopular with the " men in Glasgow. An employer states that excessive drinking by men in the shipbuilding industry has curtailed the ontpnt by twenty per cent.; others put the redaction higher. It is stated that many men working on the Clyde have to be idle at least two hours daily in order to reduce the output to the level of the trades union allowance.