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Taranaki Daily News, 19 November 1917, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

A MOST DELICATE SITUATION. AX APPEAL FOR WISDOM. A POLITICAL CRISIS FEARED. | Australian Cable Association. ■Received Nov. IS, .1.5 p.m. London, Nov. 17. ' Newspapers appeal to the members of the House of Commons to sink personal enmities and deal wisely and deliberately with the moat delicate situation that has arisen since the war. with tho fullest appreciation of the estreme danger which is threatened bv the Italian defeats. It is expected that Mr. Asquith, on opening the debate on Monday, will speak with the greatest caution and in a moderate tone, but it is feared that a crisis will develop inevitably. The Daily News says that democracy has been unseated and mohocracy, whose dictator is Lord Northcliffe, is in power, j CONTROL OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. TILL THREE YEARS AFTER WAR. Received Nov. 18, 5.5 p.m. London, Xov, 17. In the House of Commons, the Imports and Exports Temporary Control Bill was introduced. It provides foi ihe continuation of the existing restrictions on imports and exports for three yean after the war. LOSS OF DISPATCHES. A SUBMARINE INCIDENT. COURT OP INQUIRY OPENED. RESOURCEFUL AMERICAN LADY. Received Nov. 18, 5 5 p.m. London, Nov. 1". A Court of Inquiry has opened into the case in which Mr. Stanley Wilson lost some despatches in December, 1!)19. Mr. Wilson narrated that lie was carrying four bags from Athens when a Ger--man submarine stopped the vessel, and ho threw one bag overboard, which floated, but darkness intervened, and it was not noticed. An Aroericaa lady took another bag, saying that no German or Austrian would dare to enter the cabin of an American woman. This reached London safely. When in Austria, Mr. Wilson heard that the Austrian authorities had read reports in the English papers of a floating bag. and they sent a submarine, which found the bag. There were two other bagr, aboard the steamer, which eventually reached London

THE WOMEN WORKERS. NEARLY" FIVE MILLION EMPI.OYKD Renter Service, Received Nov. IS, 11.5 p.m. London. Xov. 17. It is officially stated (hat there are now over 4.750,000 women workers in Britain, nf whom over 1250.000 are in (he Government employ, incl-irtinc; 870,fI(M munition workers. S : nci- t1..» vnr b:--gan women workers have im. Iby nearly l,sfluoCo. United Service. Received Xov 18,, 5.5 p.m. London, Nov. 17. Lord Cowdrav is resigning from the Air Hoard. He protests that the letter written by Lord Northcliffe was the first inlimation that Mr. Lloyd George was seeking a successor. (As far back as the beginning of last June there were rumors as to Lord Cowdray resigning the chairmanship of the Air Board.) THE IRISH DIFFICULTY.

London, Nov. 16. The representative of the Australian Pfess Association, who is at present visiting Ireland, writes that the situation in critical but hopeful. The crux of the problem is no longer, as during the past, thirty years, Ulster's refusal to consider Home Rule, but the development of a new difficulty, the Sinn Fein movement, Which is spreading like wildfire throughout Nationalist Ireland. The Sirrn Fein leaders express the wildest and often treasonable views, and urge their followers to drill and study the methods and weapons of war, but the party embraces a vast number of moderate men and women, who, the representative believes, Would accept a settlement on the basis of colonial home rule.

The latter have joined the movement mainly as a protest against the alleged Redmondito inactivity. It is the almost unanimous opinion in southern Ireland that the Nationalists, as a party, are rapidly losing ground, and that they will probably be wiped out at next general election.