BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 April 1916, Page 5

BRITAIN.

CABLES CUT. BETWEEN HOLLAND AND ENGLAND, Received April 2, 5.5 p.nt, £v London, April 1. The cables connecting Holland and England have been cut, and only postal communication is available. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. CANADA AND SOUTH AFRICA . ACCEPT, ~ """ ,/ ~. Received April 2, 6.5 p.m.

London, April L Canada and South Africa have accepted the Empire Parliamentary Committee's invitation to send delegates to London. The association is awaiting Australia's and New Zealand's replies. It has been arranged that the Australian and New Zealand delegates will be granted free passages by tht Peninsular and Oriental line, the Union 'Steamship Co, and the Canadian Pacific Railway across Canada, also by the Shaw-Savill and New Zealand Shipping Companies, thus enabling them to make a choice of routes homeward and outward.

POST-WAR TRADE,

THE DOCTRINE OF SUNLIGHT SOAP. REPUDIATED BY HIGH COMMISSIONER. Received April 2, 5.5 p.m. London, April 1. Sir Thomas Mackenzie, speaking at the Mansion House, replied to Sir William Lever. He said: "We entered the war, not for trade or territory, tat for the preservation of peace, freedom, and civilisation. Germany has abused every privilege granted her, and is even now developing plans for our ruin, degradation and enslavement. It was not with a view of resuming trade with Germany that the mothers of the overseas dominions had sent their husbands and sons to fight." Sir Thomas Mackenzie hoped that Sir William Lever's doctrine would not find acceptance anywhere. [A London cable of March 30 said: Sir William Lever, speaking at the annual meeting of uever Brothers, deprecated efforts to secure British trade protection after the war by tariffs against Austria and Germany. The strength of Britain, lie contended was due to her open trade and the fieedom of the seas. When the war was over all bitterness must cease. The creation of tariffs against Germany was a cowardly cry, only worthy of a backward race, and a policy of antiGerman restrictions would only stimulate false imperialism founded on injustice and the disregard of the rights of others.]

THE CLYDE STRIKE. CONFERENCE POSTPONED. Received April 2, 5.6 p.m. London, April 1. In view of the fact that the Clyde dispute is settling down as a consequence of the men returning to work, the conference which Mr. Henderson and other Cabinet members were, attending at Glasgow on Sunday has been postponed. MEETINGS OF PROTEST. Ten thousand Clyde engineers, at Glasgow Green, adopted a resolution resenting the apparent indifference of the Government in replying to the application for an advance in wages. A sec oiid meeting protested against the arrest of the leaders at their homes in the middle of the night, and demanded their return to Glasgow. , PROCESSIONISTS HOOTED. Thousands of the Clyde workers took a holiday to attend a protest demonstration. Crowds of citizens in Glasgow hissed the processionists, shouting, "Shame on you! Think of the men in the trenches!" The police who were escorting the processionists prevented more serious trouble. THE DARLING OF JINGOES. LAUGHABLE CRITICISM. London, March 31. The Frankfurter Zeitung says that Mr. Hughes has become the darling of English jingoes, and this attitude embarrasses the Government. The latter has to treat well the IPrime Minister of an important colony which has given a strong, though, on account of its criminal lack of self-restraint, a pcrfecl"y use, less auxiliary force. A HERO ACKNOWLEDGED. London, March 31. The Victoria Cross has been awarded to .Sub-Lieutenant Arthur Tisdail in connection with the River Clyde landing at Gallipoli. He made four trips between the ship and the shore, rescuing men under heavy fire. Tisdail was subsequently killed. Petty Officer Perring and Seamen Malia and Parkinson were awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Medal for assisting Tisdail. CROWN PRINCE OF SERBIA. Oharing Cross station was crowded to welcome the Crown Prince of Serbia. 'Prince Albert met the special train, and Mr. Lloyd George and Sir Edward Grey, representing the Cabinet, Field-Marshal Lord French, and many distinguished personages were on the platform. Thence the Crown Prince drove to Buckingham Palace, and wc,» cordially, Meetjd by their M&jutte* * i