MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 August 1919, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

GENERAL EXPENDITURE, BTATJPDBNT BY MR. OTURGHILL, , JUNCTION NECESSARY, JJj.Mejnraph.—Press Asm- Copyright Received Aug. 14, 8.45, p.m. London, Aug. 12. to. dttrdiill, speaking on general expendrtnre. said it had been arranged that M ifritton forces tn the Rhine, by the erld 6i September, would be reduced to one stlforlg brigade and an Air Force sqrutdrtftt. there were still over 100,000 German and Turkish war prisoners, need- ' Jag" Iw.QOO troops to guard them. PerinissitnY had been granted to repatriate the ,Tutf», bnt the Saprtme Council had net yet intnorised the repatriation of the Germans. The maintenance of 100,- '. WJt> Wops, bt Whom 20,000 were British, in Mesopotamia was tbe principal main- ' Bjtrlng' of profligate expenditure. Inwere proceeding with a view to force, as well its those in t £ff£j&a»4 jPalestinc There were $5,000 troops in Ireland, compared with 30,000, '. fcafofe the war. Th& Irish executive wad most stronglr .opposed to any reduction at #a*etJt. >We had to maintain 100,000 in France for. salvage work, otherwise it #6uld leave valuable assets rotting W the 1 ground. There were still many thousands of the seriously wounded in sid*p»ais.;it was clear *hat tbe only means of reducing expenditure was to ■ tahig horn* the men at the earliest opKtimrty and re-establish"' private indus:Mr, CSlwrcbill again Amphasised that th* argent problem was to reduce the tout of national government, ejen if it ■ tnv»lve4r tbo • abandonment of many cherished- schenws. The "estimated cost «f ttpTddwiing the pre-war army, owing pay allowances, would be tytwesn fifi and 75 millions, compared With tV> MiHioftS formerly He had in•ttoeieVi Sir H. M. trertcliard to provisionally frame a scheme limiting to 85 million the air force expenditure, est!Kited ftt 25' million.—Renter. ; • London, Aug. 12. bailee rnl<L» have revealed the plans t»f the 'Wstfrtiists, which included a re- , fratilje i,t Glasgow and Bolshevik regimes on' the Clyde, in Yorkshire, and the Widlands, eßpeeially at Nottingham and N.Z. Cable Assoc. SißftO OteTRACT IRREGULARITIES. LARGE SUM INVOLVED. v JWceired Aug: 14, 8.45 p.m. •London, Aug. 13." % the ffoflse of Conrmons, the Lord 'A9*ttcate dealt with tbe recent aTlega- ." itAns iii nonfiection with, alleged irregularities in regard to aerodrome contracts. He said the Public Accounts Committee's report made it appear that ISetWeeri £50,000 and £60,000 was iri- *. Snltfrt. while' the actual amount was f£fes6.ooo. He condemned the lack of administrative supervision, and said that the edfifu«ioh in the accounts left no ' prospect of a saccessfnl criminal prose*cUtion against anyone.—Rcuter. ' London, Aug. 12. In the House of Commons, on tbe Air Force .vote, General Socly, replying to charges of extravagance, said the vote of 88-millio'' 'deluded a large sum for comItletinV \\:>r contract*. He had con- . traded under the armistice for the production of 50,000 - aeroplanes annually. The Air Forte had beferi reduced from 30.000 officers, to 10(10, and the 264.000 other employees to 63,000.—An5. N.Z. . Citfclo Assoc. •

; Received August H, 925 p.m. ' •:','. "V London, August 11. GMieftl B*ely, replying to questions regarding the Air Force, disclosures, said . thai every possible' Step was taken to ' briliff to justice anyone guilty of corrupt jrtWtioes regarding the contracts. I TISCOtJNT GREY'S APFOINTMEWr. » focehred Aug. W, 8.45 pJO. London, Aug. 13. " tflMqnnt fifev has consented to vkit 'America to deal with peace questions. 'fcptECT ACTION" POSTPONED. "wlieceiTed A«£ 14, 8.48 p.m. London, Aug. 18. AlliWte passed a readlntiira to postpone direct action, in view of the changed attitude since the prof«s«] was, first considered.