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Taranaki Daily News, 24 April 1917, Page 8

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IMPERIAL WAR CABINET. PROCEEDINGS DELAYED. Australia. n-N.Z. Cable Association. London, April 21. Mr Llsyd George's absence interferes with the sittings of the Imperial War Cabinet. The overseas delegates -avn been occupied with sectional committes on various subjects. The Array Council has temporarily prohibited the buying or selling of raw wool, except under permit. MR LLOYD GEORGE RET.URNS. ' London, April 21. Mr. Lloyd George lias returned to London after a series of conferences with the French and Italian Governments. NEW ZEALANDEIt'S DEATH. London, April 21, Harry Elsmore Howard, second Lieutenant of the Northumberland Fusiliers, who served with the New Zealanders at Gallipoli, has died of wounds. ANTARCTIC WHALING. London, April 22. ' Mr. Bigland., M.P., submitted to the Umpires Resources Development Committee a memorandum suggesting State control of the Antarctic whaling industry. He estimates the output of fats would yield £1,000,003 a year towards the reduction of the war debt. State control is facilitated by the fact that no landing stations are available except in British possessions. IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. Wellington, April 23. The Governor lias received a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies notifying the lollowing resolution, passed unanimously at a meeting of the Imperial War Conference on April 13: — . ,i-J "That the Imperial War Conference desires to place on record its view that the resolution of the Imperial Conference passed on April 20, IM7, should be modilied to permit of India being fully represented at all future Imperial Conferences and that the necessary steps should be taken to secure the assent oi tilt: various Governments in order that the next Imperial Confereneo may bo summoned and constituted accordingly." -REPUBLICAN MOVEMENT. '•THE MOMKN'T RIPE." London, April 2'2. Mr. 11. G. Wells, writing to The Times, advocates that the moment is lipe for orsanisatioi,- with the object- of encouraging republican movements in Central Europe. He suggests that a scries of republican societies in the chief towns bf Britain should express sympathy with their fellow republicans abroad and form a basis for more purposeful activities, which need nob conflict with loyalty t the t'jronc, giving clear expression to. tha great volume of republican feeling which has always existed in the British community. He declares that it would be an agreeable thing to the Allies. The Timej editorially comments that, the letter showes that clever men somelimes write very foolishly, and characterises republican manifestations in, Britain as absurd. PUBLIC MEETINGS PROHIBITED. London, April 22. A proclamation prohibits public meetings and processions in Dublin between April 23 and May 13.