MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 July 1919, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

, . jCOMMEROIAL SUPREMACY. .r. LABOR LEADER'S WARNING. Vjy Utegnph—Preu Assn.—-Copyright. , ~ > London, July 27. . ) dx, Thomas, the railwayman's leader, . tea returned from America, He told an Interviewer: "We are certain to lose our commercial supremacy to America unless • Ws'.drasticaty change our political methods. We must first restore confidence to -the working classes, induce them to rely on the- ballot-box, and refrain from atrikes."-Aue. N.Z. Cable Assoc. BRITISH TRADE. /■;' v London, July 22. Produce merchants at Ilford are doirg .'t\, roaring trade by under-selling shop"keepers. . . ~ JMr, Roberts, speaking at Darfield, said that, owing to the adverse trade cxchaogewith America, the housewife pays nearly threepence per pound extra for bacon. Unless the coal output was greatly increased there was no hope of , lower prices. i , Mr. Roberts added: "We exchange coal lor food." \ /The Board of Trade points out that it is ntf part of the Gpvernment'3 policy • to discourage competition with the world . itt-t|ie German market. It is desirable , that British traders should make every , effort to secure a proper footing in Central Europe.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. REMOVING WOMEN'S DISABILITIES. London, July 23. • < -The debate in the House of Lords on the Bill removing disqualifications on Women entering the professions indicated that many peers desired that all peeresse* be given their own right to sit* in the .House of Lords, not .only those who have been recently created. SEARCH FOR MISSING. London,. July 27. In order to make exhaustive inquiries into the fate of all men missing during the war the Government is sending a special mission to tour Belgium and the north of France and examine ]>easants and others likely to have been in touch with men hiding in the occupied territories. ■ ■ j < A WAR OFFICE CONCESSION. London, Juty 28. ' The War Office trill permit the wives of officers and otjker ranks to join their husbands on the {thine, at their own etpense.—Aub. N.2. Cable Assoc. WSOCESSrON OF DEMOBILISED SOLDIERS. Received July 28, IS p.mi. London, July 27. Airtv thousand discharged demobilised soldiers marched in a procession through the streets, saluted the Whitehall oeßotaph, and participated in a memorial service for the fallen In Hyde Park—Am. N.Z. Cable Assoc.