MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 September 1919, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

A COURT-MARTIAL VERDICT. By Telegraph.—Press Assn Copyright. London, Sept. 21. At the court-martial held in connection with the tarring and feathering of a young naval officer at Cambridge in June last the husband, Lieutenant Wright, was found guilty. The court administered a simple reprimand tj'th no loss of rank or seniority. [Lieutenant Wright.woe at the front and his young wife was a V.A.D. at Cambridge. Wright objected to the attentions of the natal officer to his wife and,' as they did not cease, he and his brother stripped him and chained him to a tree after giving him a costume of tar and feathers. The victim was discovered in the morning] PROFITEER HUNTING. London, Sept. 21. Profiteer-hunting has begun in earnest in Britain. Ten thousand workers de monstrated in Hyde Park and sent the Government a message: "Get rid of profiteers or get out." The profiteer tribunal has commenced operations. Residents in many districts have arranged open air markets, where goods are selling at half the shop prices. —Times Service. WAR OFFICE ADMINISTRATION. London, Sept. 22. Considerable comment has been aroused by the forecast of the Sunday Times that Lord Rothermere will shortly be entrusted with the War Office where Mr. Churchill has succeeded only in adding to his unpopularity. He is credited with th« chief responsibility for military meddling and muddling in Russia.—Aub. N.Z. Cable Assoc. LABOR AND COALITION. London, Sept. 22. The Labor Party announces that there is no truth in the statement that the party has been approached with an invitation to join Mr. Lloyd George. REGULATING GERMAN EXPORTS. London, Sept. 22. Colonel Knott, president of the British Chamber of Commerce in .Germany, interviewed Herr Efzberger' Finance Minister, and Herr Schmidt, Minister of Economics, regarding the proposal to establish a clearing-house in Berlin to control all exports from Germany to the British Empire and imports 'from Britain. Colonel Knott states that the German Government consented in principle to a British official controlling the license department of the Ministry of Economics. This would prevent the dumping of German goods in Britain. Germany, however, is at present unable to dump, as the stocks of manufacturers are very small. Colonel Knott states that the idea was that German manufacturers would make offers to the central British organisation through the Berlin clearinghouse, and only such offers as were accepted would be allowed to leave Germany. The result of the British control of the clearing-house would be that they would see that the exports did not exceed the imports.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.