GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 March 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

NOTES FROM THE TIMES. BULGARIAN POSITION Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, March 20. The Daily New s Rome correspondent states that the internal situation in Bulgaria is critical and a military revolt supported by the civil population is feared. * NEW LABOR PARTY. Mr. Stanton, M.P., announces the formation of a new Labor Party to amalgamate the national services. Imperialism and broad Socialism. He expects it to embrace the manual workers and thinkers associated with Mr. H. 0. ■Wells. MORAL DISTEMPER. Professor Morgan has published a teTrible record of German atrocities, based on official inTcstigations in France. He insists that the responsibility for the orgy of bloodiest rapine is not confined to the army. The whole of the people are infected with some kind of moral distemper. "FLAPPERS" AS "PLOUGHMEN." A new brand of flapper has been discovered. In Lincolnshire forty young women ploughed heavy clinging slippery land with ploughs they had never handled before and drawn by teams fresh from Want of work. They were dressed iu jersey, breeches, skirt to the knee and gaiters. They exhibited a professional touch tlmt delighted the farmers and the experiment promises to solve the labor shortage. WOMEN'S DRESS. ' Twenty thousand new thrift posters have been plastered in London urging women especially to eschew expensive dressing, particularly hats, boots, shoes, stockings, gloves, and high heels.