General Items.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1915, Page 5

General Items.

LIQUOR IN FRANCE. STRINGENT'REGULATIONS. Received July 23, 7 p.m. London, July 23. The French Minister of the Interior has tabled a Bill in the Chamber of Deputies limiting the consumption of spirits and alcoholic liquors. It invests the prefects of departments with full powers, during the period of the war, to limit or even suppress the sale of alcohol, with the exception of wine, beer, and cider, and fixes severe penalties for puiv licans who fail to comply with the decrees.

WRETCHED ARMENIA. FEARFUL ATROCITIES BY TURKS. Received July 23, 8 p.m. Petrogrud, July 23. Turkish atrocities against the Armenians baffle description. The whole male population of Bitlis region were massacred, and the Turks then collected nine thousand women and children from the surrounding villages and herded them in Bitlis. Two days later they drove to the Tigris, shot them, and threw the bodies into the river. The Turks similarly cut the throats of a thousand Armenians on the banks of the Euphrates. Four Turkish battalions who were assembled in March in the valley of Museh are now massacring. Twelve thousand Armenians are resisting, but owing to their lack of ammunition they are sure to bo exterminated. All Armenians in the Diarbekr region have been killed. STRIPPING CHURCH ROOFS. Received July 23, 7 p.m. Vienna, July 23. Owing to the scarcitv of copper the Government has ordered ch'ui'oh roofs to l>e stripped. # CANADA'S BORROWINGS. Ottawa. Julv 22. The Canadian Government is financing heavily in New York, with the object of lightening the adverse exchange situation and financing war payments. The American market now is most favorable, owing to the condition of the British exchange.

TRADE IN CHINA. London, duly 22. A correspondent at Shanghai says it is persistently rumored that the British Government has issued special licenses, authorising delivery to alien enemies in China of all goods in the hands of iOppers from the United Kingdom to July 26. besides authorising the,renewal of all drafts. If so, the action nullifies the new regulations prohibiting enemy trading.