GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 March 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

% NOfea JFROM THE TIMES. EXCLUSION OF ALIENS. " ' limes »n4>»Sydney Sub Services. •. London, March 5. The Evening News says that the Goveminent is considering a Labor Importa- , tlon BUI to pretest aliens replacing enlisted! at bairdressing, in confectionery works, hotels, restaurants, electrical and printing works, and in the toy trade. theatrical agents journeying from . America to book turns have received an ,'.official hint to cancel the trip. A sec- ? the theatrical press is discussing thji possibility of having only British artists in the music halls. ..•-'.,.' ENVER'S UNPOPULARITY. -.., 'The Times' correspondent at Cairo . .Wires that reliable information has been .. reeeivedMm Constantinople to the efthat Enver and Talaat have, lost t .popularity. Formerly the populace lined ,:'. the streets, regarding Enver as the hero ,v, of Tu*key,'but since Erzerum and the ~,. 4«» th of Yussuf he drives at full speed ;. ,«Bd is not acknowledged. Talaat's life ■, J»*i been attempted, three shots being ' jv J}r<d, one killing his secretary. ' The '.,,. population is furious with the Young .'Turks *od Germans. ;..:BGLGARIAN FOOD REQUISITIONED. '.- ;The Salonika correspondent af the -■ '.. Times says that the Bulgarian Government has requisitioned foodstuffs :; throughout the country. tIE SHORTAGE OF SHIPPING. limes and Sydney Sun Services. . Received March G, 5.5 p.m. London, March 5. ' At the annua] meeting of the Shipowners' Association, Mr. Kenneth Ander•oß aajd that the Government purchase of ships would not mitigate the disease of -which Ugh freights were symptoms. More available tonnage relatively to the demand was the only available cure. Mr. W. H. Haeburn, the incoming president, ' laid that the Blockade considered the interest* and susceptibilities of neutrals too sympathetically, and he hoped that tbj wfrftgnjate* *°M tighten it up.