IN THE AIR.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1919, Page 7

IN THE AIR.

TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT \ COMMENCED. New York, May 8. Three American seaplanes have started on the flight to Halifax in the first stage of their effort to cross the Atlantic.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. MOTHER COUNTRY;

FROZEN MEAT PURCHASES. London, May 5. In the Home of Commons Sir Eric Geddea stated that the Government had purchased the whole of the Australian and New Zealand exportable surplus of, frozen ineafc. The quantity of New Zealand meat a wafting shipment on March 31 was 173,639 tons. Shipment was prpeeedfnf as fast jas steamers became available. Beef and wether mutton were generally reserved for the Allied forces, light mutton and lamb for civilians jn Britain. Small quantities of New Zealand meat bad been exported to the west coast of [Canada and the United States. NATIONALISATION OF MINES. London, May 7. Of eleven political economists examined by the coal commission, eight, including three university professors, favored nationalisation. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REPATRIATING AUSTRALIAN TRQOPS. jondon, May 7-. ; s "Thirty-three steamers are taking troops to Australia daring, the next four weeks. Most of the vessels are .going in ballast,. owing,, to paucity of cargo offering.

EARLY DAYS. OF THE WAR. ■' •• ii» ■ o . ■■} LORD FRENCH'S DISCLOSURES. ' •• ■ : London, May 7. The Daily Telegraph publishes the j following extract from Lord French'?! book:— ~'i.'-. , j ' "On August 3V 1914,,. General Joffre's demand 1 that the British should stand and fight was urgently, repeated and backed by messages from M. Poiware -and the British Government, yet simultaneously the Fifth French Army was being thrown back and widening the sap, *hile Lord Kitchener.was assuring the home- Government that our losses were small and the deficienees made good. Neither on this or several subsequent days did one man, horse, or gun reach me." Lord French adds: "I profoundly believe that, if I had yielded to these vio-' lent solicitations, the whole Allied army would have been thrown back qver the Mame, and that Paris would have fallen,"