GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 January 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

NOTES FROM THE TIMES. THE CONSCRIPTION PROBLEM. (Times and Sydney Sun Services). Received Jam. 1, 7.20 pjn. London, Dec. 31. The Daily Mail, in a leading article on the conscription question, says that Australia and New Zealand showed the way by their compulsory system, which resulted in the magnificent deeds of the Anzic mea, who carried the name .of Australia and New Zealand to glory. and Italy have proved that comis compatible with democracy. FRENCH OPINION. M. Pichon, writing to the Le Petit Journal, states that the British decision is a great step, leading all the Ailks to concentrate their whole strength. . Le Temps says that the English are tiling to the heights of the occasion sad it it a moving sacrifice. Le Figaro says that the resolve to conquer is unanimous. DISSENSION IN TURKEY. The Daily News' correspondent at Athens says that the committee of the German legation at Constantinople has been made more strict. Many AngloFrench subjects who paraded the streets have been transported to and imprisoned in the interior. Talaat Bey went to Ancera to quieten a revolt, which was due to Germans setting metals and provisions, and thence to JUraidem mines to Calm the miners, wtlo revolted against German masters. Turkish detestation of German rule is growing. The price of food has been been trebled. VALUE OF MONEY. The Times' correspondent at Amsterd*» lays that the value of a mark has 7?f*ui declined, and the depreciation is iow about thirty per' cent. Austrian money has depreciated about forty per eest.