MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 June 1917, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

THE'SEW ROYAL TITLES. London, June 27. tie Dtike of Teck becomes the Marquis of Cambridge, and Prince Alexander of Battenburg becomes the Marquis of CArisbrootce. The family name of Battenberg beoomes Mount Batten, after a headland, overlooking Plymouth harbor. The Earldom of Medina is named after a,riv£r in the Isle of Wighb. BCTTI?H SOCIALISTS. ' , ■ London, June 27. The British National Socialist Party declined the invitation of the Council of Workmen and Soldiers to attend an international conference, ion the grounds that the conference would be attended 6y enemy Socialists who supported the attacks on Belgium. France, Serbia, and Ilussia, and still justified German atrocities. The conference could not serve the cftnse Of peace or socialism while the German armies are still in possession of jjVaded territories. ; : ' PRISONERS ENGAGED IN PLOUGHING. Baceived June 28, « p.m. Lon'don, June 27. In the House of Lords, Lord Milner, in a statement regarding agricultural labor, said instructions had been issued ' for ploughing up 2,<00,000 acres of grass War prisoners were being increasingly employed. From 6000 to 6000 fresh prisoners were duei from the front, and the majority would be utilised in agriculture. , COTTON EXCHANGE. Received June 28, 6 p.m. London, June 27. Xho Pre&s Bureau states that as tlie tftsolt of the Board of Trade and cotton interesta' conference the Liverpool Ex- ' clubige re-opens on Friday under a board of eostrol, with a, view to avoid further (peculation. flfflmTiKlft LT THE SOCIALISTS. ! tßeecfred June 28, 6.20 p.m. London, Jane 27. Tie Britisfh maritime organisations - fcftve declined to remove the embargo on fb. ißamsay Mac Donald and Mr. Jowetit, OjaSCttKJIATIOK OF COMMERCIAL TREATIES. ■ Received June 28, 5.25 p.m. London, Jnne 27. In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar L»w eaad the Government was considering the denunciation of commercial treaties to enable them to enter into new 'ones after the war. Maty and ■ hwl already denounced theirs.