BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 June 1916, Page 5

BRITAIN.

IN PARLIAMENT. REPLIES TO QUESTIONS. STARVATION OF OUR PRISONERS. London, June '2O. The llDi]-e of Commons agreed to tlhe Kitchener memorial. Mr. Asquith promised facilities to diseuss the Economic Conference if they were generally desired. lie promised a statement to-morrow witlli regard to conscientious objectors.

Ifr. Tcimant said that of 04 Irish rebels sentenced to death all the sentences had been commuted to penal servitude.

Mr. Asquith hoped that the Dardanelles papers would be available before the end of the session. Mr. Eugene Wasan drew attention In Italy's large wool purchases at the Sydney sales, and asked whether the Government would make .special representations to Italy to see that none of the woo! reached Germany or Austria. Lord Robert Cecil said that the importance of preventing wool reaching the enemy had frequently been brought to the notice of the Italian Government, who would take strict measures to prevent smuggling. Lord Robert Cecil, in reply to a question, said that a further unfavorable report had been received that the German authorities had deliberately reduced the official food rations for prisoners at RuhJeben. Between sixty and three hundred marks had accumulated which snould he spent on food. Germany had been informed that if she did not reply to protests within a week Britain would be compelled to consider her course with regard to German prisoners. Reports from the American Embassy showed that the rations are little more than, onethird of the requisite allowance. The German Government had been informed that if they were unable to feed prisoner; properly they should be released.

GENERAL ITEMS. ■Received June 27, 11 p.m. London, June 27. It is feared that Lord Lansdowne, Mr. Long and Lord Robert Cecil will follow Lord Selborne in retirement. Mr. Bonar Law presides at a general meeting of Unionists on Wednesday. Gordon Campbell has handed to the lied Cross the first instalment of CoO.OOO from the meat trade, whereof C2O,(K>O is from the Argentine. All the minimum prices on the Stock Xxcjiange were abolished on Monday.