MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 April 1919, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

BRITAIN'S NATIONAL DEBT. SEVEN THOUSAND MILLIONS. Received April 1, 12.15 a.m. London, March 31. Including 80C millions sterling advanced by America, Britain's war debt is 6005 millions. It is estimated the total national debt is now seven thousand millions.~Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. ARMY COMMANDS. Received March 31, 10.5 p.m. London, March 30. The Press Bureau announces that General Rawlinson has been appointed to the Aldershot command, and General Home to the eastern command, intimating that General Wilson concurred' with General Robertson that there was nothing in Sir lan Hamilton's command of the Allied forces at Gallipoli which ought to preclude him from re-employ-ment. Sir lan Hamilton declined on the ground that younger men should be given a chance. •General Byng declined the southern command for a similar rea-son.--Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc. SAFEGUARDS AGAINST SINN FEINERS. Received April 1, 12.15 a.m. London, March 30. The House of Commons passed the second reading of the Bill applying proportional representation \.o the next Irish local elections. Mr. Samuels, Irish Attorney-General, said representation of the minorities must be safeguarded. At present the Sinn Peiners and Bolshevists were wrecking the local institutions. Sir Edward Carson denounced the measure. The Nationalists and Unionists supported it as the only means of preventing the Sinn Feinera from obliterating the minoritiei. t^