BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 March 1916, Page 5

BRITAIN.

TRADE AFTER THE WAR. VIEWS OF COMMERCIAL MEN. London, March 1. Mr. McKennfc, addressing the conference of Chambers of Commerce, said: — "We have seen Germany during peace planning, preparing and finally provoking war. We were dependent upon her for many trade essentials, but never again." A resolution was carried asking the Government to take counsel with the Dominion Governments and obtain their views on the post-war trade problems of reciprocal trading, relations with enemy countries and control of enemy businesses within the Empire, also asking the Government to establish preferential and reciprocal trading within the Empire and her Allies, favorable treatment of neutrals and tariff restrictions on the enemies, making the prewar conditions impossible. The resolution also urged the stimulation of home industries and increased employment for native labor. THE WAR IN PARLIAMENT. ANTI-CONSCRIPTION COMPLAINTS. London, Feb. 20. Lord French took his seat in the House of Lords. In the House of Commons Mr. Asquith announced that Rear-Admira] De Chair would be the flag officer advising the Foreign Office on blockade questions. Sir John Simon, in the House of Commons, said he believed headquarters said that nobody would be exempted from service.' Such action was wasteful and uneconomic. If the War Office wanted to imitate Germany it should imitate her efficiency, not her brutality. Mr. Lough said that the tribunals were more like the old press gang than anything else.

t THE AGE LIMIT. Received March 1, 5.5 p.m. I London, Feb. 29. Mr. Tennant, in the House of Commons, said that the Government did not consider it necessary to extend the age limit for enlistment. BRITISH CASUALTIES IX SERBIA. Received March 1, 5.5 p.m. London. Feb. 29. The casualties in the Serbian and Salonika expeditions were 37 officers and 1439 of other ranks, '' r ' THE DERBY SCHEME. Received March 1, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 20. Mr. Long said that the Government was considering a moratorium for rent and other liabilities of married Derbyites. i MR. FISHER ENTERTAINED. i AUSTRALIA'S CREDIT. I London, Feb. 29. , Mr. W. Campion, M.P., pave a luncheon (to Mr. Fisher,|at which the managers of ! the Australian' banks, also Sir R. Kevi- ■ son and Sir Charles Tritton. father of I thi» money market were present. j Mr. Campion paid a tribute to Mr. i Fisher for commencing two transconti- ! ncntal lines without borrowing a shili ling in London. Mr. Jeans said Britain was not unmindful of the great financial obligations Australia was incurring in pursuance of her determination to shoulder the burden of Empire. Mr. Fisher, in reply, said that compulsion in Australia had not been received unanimously, many people thinking it a vile attempt to interfere with their liberty, but the men of foresight and grit would carry it through. They would not forget the financial assistance the Commonwealth liad received from private banks in Australia. Bankers had furnished the. specie and the Government issued State paper and raised thirty million pounds. He did not believe that anybody in Australia was a penny the worse off, and the country's credit remained undisturbed. j *gjr';4* ; 'A WARXING. v ~ London, Feb. 29. The Financial Xews warns the public j that German secret service agentß in j England are likely to try to create a J financial vasic,