MOTHER COUNTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1919, Page 5

MOTHER COUNTRY.

BACK TQ NORMAL TIMES. DISMANTLING OF WAR MATERIAL. By TeleErapli.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Oct. 14, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 13. The Government has already vacated three large West End hotels and formally surrenders the Hotel Cecil (occupied by the Air Ministry) this week. The War Office is preparing to release the National Portrait Gallery and the Wallace Collection, which will shortly be reopened to the public. Tke displaced staffs, numbering 4000, will be accommodated in the Alexandra Palace, which has been used as an-aliens' camp during war time. The Government economy proposals include the dismantling of a huge aerodrome at East Fortune (near Edinburgh) and the scrapping of the enormous electric plant and spacious underground oil reservoirs. They are also breaking up. the airship R29. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ENGLAND ANTI-BOLSHEVIK. INFLUENCES OF THE RECENT STRIKE. Received Oct. 14, 9.10 p.m. New York, Oct. 14. Mr. John Greely Jenkins, a former Premier of South Australia, and now a British delegate to the International Trade Conference, interviewed, said that the outcome of the British railway strike showod that the Government, and not the strikers, must be supreme. The affair, if anything, strengthened Mr. Lloyd George with the great majority of Labor people. England was anti-Bolshevik, and Red propaganda had not been given an opportunity to secure a foothold. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.