MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1918, Page 7

MOTHER COUNTRY.

LABOR AND RUSSIAN POSITIOI London, Sept. 20. The Labor Conference adopted the n port on the Austrian Note. M. Kerensky defended the part Ru sia played in the war until Bolshevisi triumphed, and advocated Entente ii terrention. • An excited debate followed, and evei tually the Russian report was referrc back, ■with the view of reaching a agreement.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assoc. GERM and Austria FIRE IN MUNITION FACTORY. Vienna, Sept. 20. Official: A fire in a munition works i Woellersdorf caused a panic among tl workers, and there was a great nurnbi of victims. The cause has not been di covered. —Reuter. MILITARY CROSS FOR NEW ZEALANDKRS. Received Sept. 21, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 20. TJje Military Cross has been awards to the following New Zealanders: Cap K. Saxon (Rifle Brigade): Lieuterian' M. E. Johnson (Auckland Mounteds), C. Mac Lean (Engineers), and J. McLec (Canterbury Regiment). —Aup. N.! Cable Assoc. and Reuter. RAILWAY DISPUTE SETTLED. Received Sept. 21, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 20. The railway dispute has been settle as the result of a conference betwet the railwaymen and the AVar Cabine The agreement provides for a week! increase of five shillings for male at female adults and half a crown fi workers under 18. This increase is 1 be retrospective from August s.—Au N.Z. Cable Assoc.