MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 September 1916, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

MR. BONAR LAW ON THE OUTLOOK. NO ANXIETY NOW. THE END A WINNING ONE, ' 'POST WAR PROBLEMS, ■Received Sept. 14, 5.45 p.irv Loudon, Sept. 13. At a luncheon in honoi of the Premier of Newfoundland, Mr. Bonar Law said the war was going well. It bad taken lliem a long time to utilise and briny to a striking point the Allies' resources, but they were being used now. It was no accident that the position had greatly changed, and there .was no anxiety as to the position now. Anxictv was a thing of the past, chiefly because the Allies were working together. Moreover, there was no shortage of ammunition. He did not profess to see the end of the war. It might be a long struggle, but the cn<> was a winning one. The problem of reconstruction would more severely try the people's character and the Government's capacity than the task of winning the war. The most important of problems was that of emigration. It would be Britain's duty to keep as many as possible at home. The strength of the centre of the Empire must be sustained. We must give the men lighting our battles chances and the widest outlook. The Government would be greatly blameable if any emigration W'ent outside the Empire. The relations of the Imperial flovcrument must change in order that there will not be one set of men contributing lives and treasure without a voice as to how those lives and treasure should be expended. He paid a. tribute to the overseas troops, especially at the Dardanelles. That was a glorious failure, but it was also more glorious than many successes. LABOR DEMANDS, A STRIKE UNLIKELY, i .LAUNCH OF MERCHANTMAN. London, Sept. 13. Mr. Asquith has refused the Clyde ■ dockers' claim for twopence hourly war 1 bonus. Tiie first railway conference dealing with the men's demands for a 10s increase assembled to-day and continues to-morrow. The general opinion is that a strike is unlikely. Possibly the men will be offered and will accept a 5s permanent increase. The disturbing South Welsh clement, who demanded 15s and threatened to strike on Sunday, has now ' fallen into line with the other railwaymen. The Shire linei Brecknockshire of 12,000 tons, for the South American meat trade, has been launched at Belfast. This is the first merchantman launched since the war began. POLICE TO CONDUCT RAIDS. 'SLACKERS AND MALINGERERS DEALT WITH. ONLY SHIRKERS TO BE DETAINED. London, September 13. The authorities are modifying the indiscriminate system of rounding up civilians. Instead of joint police and military raids being directed by Army officers, in future raids will be carried out exclusively by the civil police, and detention only enforced when there is a genuine suspicion of shirking. If satisfactory evidence of identity is given, lalls will afterwards be made at the addresses given on the exemption cariilicates. Received Sept. 14, 7.35 p.m. London, Sept. 14. The police and military stopped all the visitors at the Newmarket race meeting. One house inspection netted two men. A proclamation in the London Gazette makes it an offence for any member of the Reserve forces not yet liable to military law to malinger, feign disease, or take drugs calculated to produce unfitness. . BRITISH AEROPLANES. Loiulon, Sept. 13. Lord Montagu of Beaulieu states that the latest type of aeroplane lias already brought down 27 Fokkers. For weeks at a time no German aeroplane has been over some parts of the British line. Air defence after the war will involve an encircling -ordon of 20,006 aeroplanes and thousands of aircraft for the army. EFFICACY OF BLOCKADE UNIMPAIRED. London, Sept. 13. Returns of the War Trade Statistical Bureau show that the increased exports of t'bv> United States to neutrals are wholly due to the Hitting off of supplies from belligerent countries, and bear out the official contention that neutrals' increased imports only meet tbeii legitimate needs and that the efficacy of the blockade is uuimipaired.