BRITAIN.
THE WAR IN PARLIAMENT. . REPLUG TO QUESTIONS. Received Nov. 12, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 11. Mr. McKenna states that the Government were "unable at present- to legislate to relieve colonial incomes of the triple income-tax. Mr. Runciman, in reply to a question, said that the Government were aware that the Swift Beef Company controlled the Australian meat export, and that the company had not paid income-tax. Mr. McKenna said that the Government were seeking power to apply the income-tax to an excess of profits, and to tax foreign companies. Mr. Bonar Law stated that the position of the Australian base metal industry at the end of the war was under Government consideration. No offer of the output to the authorities had been made through the Colonial Office. LABOR COMBINE. OVER A MILLION MEN. London, Nov. 10. The Miners' Federation of Great Britain, the National Union of Transport Workers, -and the National Union of Railwaymen have ratified an amalgamation creating an alliance of between 1,260,000 ajid 1,500,000 workers. A HOPEFUL VIEW. ANAL DECISION IN THE WEST. London, Nov. H. Mr. John Buehan, when lecturing, (aid he • believed the decisive struggle would be in the West, where the Allies have completely recovered the initiative and have broken down some of the enemy's strongest defences. The spectre of diminishing man power was drawing nearer to Germany, AN OUTRAGEOUS QUESTION. AUSTRALIANS IN EGYPT. London, Nov. 11. Sir. Ginnell, in the House of Commons, asked Sir E. Grey if he could state the number of outrages and offences committed by the Australian forces in Egypt, and whether instructions had been given that they should be reported or recorded. Answering interrupting members who demanded his authority for such statements, the Speaker remarked that Mr. Ginnell had made himself responsible for the statements. Sir Edward Grey replied that he had no official information of such outrages. A WARNING. YOUNG MEN MUST ENLIST. London, Nov. 11. Lord Derby announced that unless the young men enlist before November 30 the Government will redeem its pledge of November 2. MUNITION WORKS. SPLENDID ORGANISATION Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Xov. 11. With the idea of affording glimpses of the gigantic organisation of the munition industries, a party of representative pressmen made a tour of typical workshops. They saw two establishments at Birmingham where cartridges, shells, fuses and primers are turned out in almost incalculable quantity. One will soon reach a production of eleven million cartridges weekly and twentv thousand shells weekly. The work is mostly done by women, three thousand of whom are housed in a single vast workshop. One faetory has been trebled in size since November; the other if wholly new and covers eleven acres. The two employ twelve thousand hands, and are merely .typical of scores of others. The whole country is divided into munition areas controlled by local boards of engineers and experts. Besides twenty national shell factories and eleven national heavy projectile factories there are 1346 controlled -workshops employing over a million hands. The spirit of the industrial Midlands is different from that of London. A strong and eager determination to do solid war work is teen everywhere. Evidently the munition workers have settled down to a long war. They are working as if thej were engaged in a great business undertaking intended to last a generation or *ven 4 hundred year*.
THE WHEAT TRADE. COMMONWEALTH INTERFERENCE RESENTED. London, Nov. 11. The Australian business men generally fail to see the necessity of the Commonwealth's interference in the wheat trade. There has been no indication that business houses usually handling wheat are unable to finance the Australian crop, or that the Government is able to charter ships cheaper than private firms. In some quarters the British Government's prohibition of trading between foreign ports is interpreted as intended to assist the Commonwealth in securing- tonnage.
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