MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 August 1916, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

WELFARE WORK. , PEAKED BY 105. LLOYD GEORGE. -/ - . London, July 30. Mr. Lloyd George contributes a foreword to a hook on Welfare Work by Miss E. D. Proud, formerly of Adelaide ItliiiveTsity, and recently in England in (the Welfare Department of the Minisfly of Monitions. Mr. IJoyd George describes the "establishment of the Welfare Department, bf which it ,is impossible to exaggerate | the importance in safeguarding the health and well-being of female workers. (Lady supervisors are boing appointed in all national factories in which women fere employed. Mr. Lloyd George hopes that all controlled establishments will follow suit And thus help to secure a larger and speedier output, to preserve the workers' health and happiness, and relieve harassment .by employers and needless strain. It ia "e strange irony, says Mr. Lloyd fkorge, that the making of weapons of (destruction should afford an occasion jto humanise industry, and it may well be jthat When the tumult of war is a dis'fcant echo sad the making of munitions K nightmare of the past, this effort wili poften asperities, secure the (veinre of porkers, build a bridge of sympathy knd understanding between employer and (employed, and leave behind results permanent''and enduring in value to the ~ workers, the nation, and mankind at ) ,A , t ' ! BRITiSH BLACK LIST, , ' m 'AUmiQW PROTEST. , ■ ' , . . (DUTCH ACTION. \ ' * London, July 30. ! * Prots Bureau publishes the Ameri- ' fen Note on the British black list. The Kote expresses painful surprise at the arbitrary interference with neutral trade, tgainst which it must protest in the most decided terms. It complains of the harsh, even disastrous effects of the <>la«E li«t policy, which is susceptible to bo'wide an application that the possifcilitiea of serious and incalculable interruptions to American trade and undeserved injury to American citizens are limitless. The British measures are essentially inconsistent with neutral rights. American citizens are entirely within their rights in attempting to trade with belligerents, subject only to well-defined international practices and understandings which the American Government has over lightly and over frequently disregarded.. The black list brushes aside the safeguard of neutral rights, and condemns neutrals and their goods without hearing or notice. T; is manifestly out of the question for the American Government {to acquiesce in a practice inconsistent (with justice, amity and fairness. It does not seek to shield Americans for unneutral acts, but the British Government cannot expect it to see its citizens placed on an ex parte black list without calling the attention of the British Government in the gravest terms to the serious consequences to neutral rights and regulations which_such act 3 mast necessarily involve. It hopes and believes that the British Government, in its natural absorption in the single pressing object of policy, has acted without realising the undesirable results which are possible. - *TV. , ——— New York, July 30. 5 hew British memorandum states that no restriction will be placed on the neutral trade of firms on the black list unless it is systematically used to •over trade with the enemy, ' ) p t ' r , A » EASIER SAID THAN DONE. •CRUSHING GEKMAN 'DESPOTISM. London, July 30. 6 League of Britons is being formed i.i Liverpool for bringing the Kaiser and his fellow criminals to trial and punishment for the Fryatt and other murders. It is proposed that members pledge themselves to eject from power any Government refusing to make it an indispensable condition of peace that a judicial tribunal shall be established to try the guilty principals and execute them it convicted. Lord Derby, in a speer:i at Wellington College, said it would take, some time to crush. German despotism, and,' although we read of successes, v.e must i:6t think the war was near its end. £oxc of the boys there mioht be serving i le:'or3 ifrvfyas finished.