GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1920, Page 6

GENERAL NEWS.

A daring scheme for the release of prisoners ut Pentridge (Victoria) has been detected. Long service convicts donned suits ','nrler their prison garb." Suspicions movements induced a search which revealed two automatic revolvers, djnamite, jemmies, and coils of copper wire. It is estimated that 120 prisoners ('ould have escaped had the scheme succeeded. • Since the Licensing Seduction Board has been in operation the hotel licenses in Victoria have lieen reduced from 344S to 2111. The compensation paid to the owners and occupants of de-licensed houses up to the end of June last year, ' totalled ;C(i72,5!)J. Since then a consider- 1 able number have been cWed, for which compensation is still payable. In the Victorian House of Representatives. Mr. Milieu, replying to Mr. Loughlin, Minister for Lands, on the question of soldier settlement, cnici that the latter expected the Commonwealth to pay C'iiOO per settler, whereas Vic- , toria asked for only .C177(1. South Australia .£l4lO, Westralia .'CIIOO, Queensland £7OO. New South Wales undertook to settle 0403 men for £5,750,000 hut had failed to settle half that number; yet they desired an extra £3,500,000. , The King has approved of naval clasps > to the. War Merlal for general actions a:); sea, sma-le shin actions, actions with the enemy on land, etc. The single ship actions include the fights with the Em- I

den and the Koenigsberg, while Mesopotamia, the Red Sea, the African Lakes, German East Africa, the Pacific Islands, and the Cameroons are included under actions with land troops. Further food disturbances took place at Berlin and, at Worms. At the latter, place shops were plundered. The police were helpless, hut the French patrols cleared the streets. The damage is estimated at 3,000,000 marks. Twenty-six persons wore killed and 100 injured by a railway accident in Pennsylvania. A Zeppelin similar to L7l will be surrendered in a dismantled condition to an American committee during the coming week and reassembled in America by German engineers. Three others of this type,- which were being completed when the armistice was signed, will he handed over to America. The indications are that America will use all four in a trans-Atlantic air service. Two more Zepeplins are being made ready for delivery to France and another to Italy. "