News from England

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 257, 9 April 1915, Page 5

News from England

PROHIBITION OF ALCOHOL,

PRAISED BY INDIANS.

Bombay, April 7.

' All the vernacular newspapers have leading articles in praise 01 the King"s prohibition of alcohol. London, April 7-

A memorial from merchants and manufacturers employing many thousands of hands has been presented to the Government in favor of prohibiting the Bale and manufacture of liquor during the war. The memorial lists are not connected with any temperance organi--sation.

DEALING WITH DRINK,

LEGISLATION BEING FRAMED.

Received April 8, 8.10 p.m.

London, Arril 8.

Cabinet will consult the Unionist leaders with a view to legislation for curtailing the sale of liquor during the war. The Archbishops of Canterbury and 3Tork, Cardinal Bourne, and Rev. Compton Rickett, on behalf of the Free Church Council, have issued a joint appeal for alcoholic abstinence during wartime.

PROHIBITION UNCALLED FOR,

SOME PROPOSED RESTRICTIONS.

Received April n, 12.45 a.m. London, April 8.

It is understood that Cabinet considered all-round prohibition impracticable and uncalled for at present, but favored prohibition of wines and spirits, and the encouragement of lighter beers by a compulsory reduction of strength, and further restrictions on the sale of intoxicants in military and munition manufacturing areas. The Government Is sounding the Opposition regarding the necessary legislation. The Public Trustee's report shows that the Department is administering enemy property in England and Wales of the yaUnTof eighty-five millions sterling.

MEN FOR ARMS FACTORY.

London, April 7.

The War Office has issued posters appealing to skilled and unskilled men to offer their services to armament firms.

MINERS RETURN TO WORK.

London, April 7.

Two hundred thousand Welsh miners to work with admirable loyalty to Lord Kitchener's appeal.

WOMEN AS' RAILWAY PORTERS.

London, April 8. The Great- Central Railway has given lour thousand men to the war, and is taking on women. Four hundred have been employed, and are successfully replacing the men. A young officer arriving with his heavy kit-bag and a quantity of luggage was astonished to find it captured by an amazon in badge and cap, who put his luggage on the taxi in a businesslike way and pocketed the tip. An official stated that the women have their limitations, but there is plenty of scope for them.

IS IRELAND BACKWARD?

;". SOME RECRUITING FACTS. London. April 8. ' There are 442.17"! ofi'u-ient male* of recruiting in Ireland. I.;tt>st statistic* -disclose that 31.(10(1 have enlisted-- MS"'» In Ulster and 20,000 in the southern pro. Vine.es. The agricultural labors have generally withheld from enlist men!. The farmers frank!v admit that tl.cv ;:r<»

making large profits from th•• war. ami few appear conscious of any special obligations to their country. Shop a--i-i----ants often have spurious notion* of social prestige which precludes their uiixii!_ .with the "common soldiers."