MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 July 1917, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

THE GERMAN CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH.

MR. LLOYiD GEORGE'S CRITICISM.

"A FACING-ALL-WAYS SPEECH." Ans. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Received July 22, 11.55 p.m. London, July 21. Mr. Lloyd George, speaking at the Belgian Independence Day feast at the Queen's Hall, referring to the German Chancellor's speech, asked what hope did it give of an honorable peace? It, he continued, was a dexterous facing-all-wayn speech. It was the speech of a man awaiting the military issue, and let the Allies bear that in mind. There were phrases in the speech that the German military powers <will understand: phrases about making the frontiers of 'Germany secure. That was the phrase that had annexed Alsace-Lorraine and drenched Europe in blood since 1014. That wns tUe phrase wher.-hy, if they dare, they will annex TVlginm am! Conrland, and Hgaiii precipitate Euro;., in a welter of blood within a generation, unless wiped out on the battlefields of Europe. CONTROLLING BUTCHERS' PROFITC A. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Router. Received July 22, 5 '< p.m. London, July 20. The Press Bureau states that the Food Controller announces the maximum price of live cattle for army consumption as follows:—September, 74/- per cwt., October 72/-. November and December 67/-, January (XV-. The maximum prices will be fixed correspondingly, and steps taken 'to control butchers' profits. The price of flour will V standardised, so as to enable bread to be sold at 9d the 41b loaf.

COST OF THE WAR, Received July 22, 5.8 p.m. London, July 21. Tt is expected the credit vote to bo risked for noxt week will be for £500,000.000. making the total for the war £5,012,000,000. A NEW APPOINTMENT. Australian Cable, Association. Received July 22, 5.5 p.m. London, July 21. Sir Thomas Munro, county clerk of Lanarkshire, is undertaking the chief directorship of the Labor Department of the Ministry of Munitions. The duties include the establishment of local committees of employers and employed for the prompt settlement of disputes. ADEQUATE FOOD SUPPLY. Received JuW 22, 5.8 p.m. Vancouver, July 21. A message from London reports Mr. Lloyd George as having stated that there is adequate food in Britain for 1917-18, and that starvation is impossible. FOOD ECONOMY CAMPAIGN. liuter Service. Received July 22, 11.5 p.m. London, July 21. Mr. Kennedy Jones explains that he resigned because the special food economy campaign was not so necessary now the harvest wan in. ARBOPLANBS INCREASED. London, July 20. The Air Board has dec Wed to increase the number of aeroplanes by the same methods of standardisation and large scale output which Mr. Lloyd Reorgc applied to shells. This will enable the Allies in 1918 victoriously to dominate the German tines.

NATIONAL SERVICE FAILS. London, July 20. It is evident that National Service is a complete failure, and will shortly clone. It has been a great expense and the results are negligible. It* functions relating to the control and substitution of labor -will be transferred to the labor exchanges. SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' PAY. London, July 20. The Federation of Trades' Unions is inviting members of boHi Houses of Parliament to confer with the trades unions af> the*Housc of Commons on Aucu-st 1 to consider the pay of soldiers and sailors. The invitation states that the price of men's needs is enormously increasing and where British battalions are brigaded alongside colonials the Britisher can only look at the commo' ditiea and curse the parsimony which fives him one-sirth the pay of the Aus fraliai; tuid New Zealander. It is not decent for stay-at-homes to talk or patriotism while this scandal continues. .EST HOMES FOR ANZAOS. Times Service. London, July 20. The Australian Bureau has been established in the Place do l*Opera, Paris, to help Anzacs, provide rest rooms, tea iind guides. MEDALS FOR NEW ZEALANDERS. A. and N.Z. Cable Assoc, and Reuter. Received July 22, 5.8 p.m. London, July 20. Seven New Zealanders have been awarded Meritorious Service Medals.