BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 November 1915, Page 5

BRITAIN.

THE WAR IN PARLIAMENT.

'A PREMATURE QUESTION. London, Nov. 4. fit reply to Sir A. B. Markham, wlio faked whether Mr. Asquitb would notify the German Government that German capital in Britain at the end of the war would be utilised to pay indemnities for air raids and compensation to dependents of those killed, Mr Asquit h said he was not prepared at present to notify Germany beforehand what .procedure Britaip would adopt.

HELP FOR BELGIAN REFUGEES. THREE MILLION SIXPENCES - WANTED. London, Nov. 4. The Lord Mayor is appealing to the Jreoples of the Empire for three million sixpences to enable three million destitute Belgians in Belgium to be fed on King Albert's fete day, November IS.

QUEENSLAND MEAT BILL A QUESTION IN PARLIAMENT. ' London, Nor. 4. Mr. Theodore Taylor, in the House of Commons drew attention to the Queensland Meat Works Bill, giving power to appropriate meat works and extinguish the owners' right without compensation. He asked whether the Imperial Government had asked for the Bill.

Mr. Sonar Law said he understood the BiQ was intended to give the Queensland Government greater powers to control meat than those which it exercised. The legislation was at the wish of and in consultation with the Imperial Government, but the latter did not require the introduction of the Bill.

DENS OF INIQUIfY. BILL TO STAMP OUT NIGHT CLUBS. Received Nor. 5, 10.45 p.m. London, Nov. 5. In the House of Lords, Lord Canon, explaining the Bill to regulate night clubs, said they were the haunts of temptation and dens of iniquity. Young officers were tempted to these places, swindled and drugged, And sometimes turned out into the streets. They were often blackmailed, fearing exposure, The Bill passed.

NO GENERAL ELECTION. GOVERNMENT WILL PREVENT IT DURING THE WAR. Received Nov. 5, 10.50 p.m. London, Nov. S. In the House of Lords, Lord Lans4owne said the Government were profoundly convinced that there Bhould not be a general election during the' war, and will not spare any pains to prevent such eventuating. REWARDS OF BRAVERY. ' ONE HUNDRED MEN HONORED. Received Nov. 5, 10.60 p.m. London, Nov. 5. Thirty-six Distinguished Service Orders and sixty-five Military Crosses have been awarded to members of the Homo forces, principally in connection with the fighting at Loos and Hullueh. THE WRONG UNIFORM. NEW ZEALANDER FINED. Received Nov 5, 10.20 p.m. London, Nov. 5. Quartermaster-Sergeant Victor Land, Of the New Zealand Artillery, has been fined one hundred pounds for wearing an officer's uniform with three decorations. Prisoner pleaded thai shrapnel had turned his head a little. A RED CROSS PRISONER. IEENTIONED IN DESPATCHES. Received Nov. 6, IJS a.m. London, Nov. 5. tady Paget, of the Red Cross Societv, In* been taken prisoner at Uakub. General Hamilton's despatches mention Brigadier-General A. H. Russell and Lieuteaukt-Colonel Esson, New Zealand-