GENERAL CABLES.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1921, Page 5

GENERAL CABLES.

CONSCIENTIOUS dBJECTORS’ PROBLEM. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. Received Feb. 12, 5 pjn. • Christiania, Feb. 11. Conscientious objectors, provided they are genuine, will be accommodated in the national service, which will include afforestation, road-making, etc., for a period of fifty per cent, longer than the term by military service, with army pay and rations.—Reuter Service. WOMEN AT THE UNIVERSITY. Received Feb. 13, 11.5 p.m. London, Feb. 12. A recommendation favoring a separate University at Cambridge for women was defeated.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. REVOKING PRICE CONTROL. Received Feb. 13, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 12. The Food Controller is revoking, in February, 14, thirty food price orders, including apples, stating that in view of the large stocks and shipments expected from Australia an inflation of prices is improbable.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. DANGER OF TYPHUS. Received Feb. ]3, 5A p.m. New York, Feb. 11. The health authorities are alarmed over a danger of a typhus epidemic arising from infected immigrants. Thirtynine cases arrived on board ships since February 1, and several vessels from Italy had deaths from the dir’ease during their voyages. The port authorities have appealed to President Wilson, asking him to have an embargo placed on emigration from infected regions in Europe, but the President declined, stating that quarantine precautions should be adequate. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. ALLEGED SMUGGLING OF JAPS. Received Feb. 13. 5J5 p.m. New York, Feb. 11. At Galveston (Texas) Federal officers seized the Japanese steamer Fiiknvo Maru, from Marseilles, charged h smuggling Japanese into the United States.-N.Z. Cable Assn. GRIMSBY STRIKE SETTLED. Received Feb. 13, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. IL. The Grimsby fishermen's strike has been settled, the owners agreeing to recognise the union and confer with it regarding reductions in wages.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Afisn. WORLD’S BIGGEST STEAMER. Received Feb. 13, 5.5 p.m. London, Feb. 11. The White Star Line has purchased the former German steamship Bismark, the largest steamer in the world, from the Reparations Commission, and intend to place her in the Ndw York services.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CONTROL OF HOSPITALS. Received Feb. 13, 11.5 p.m. London, Feb. 12. Thd Duke of York, speaking at a Hospital Saturday Fund dinner, wholeheartedly favored a continuance of the voluntary system of maintenance, as advantageous both to the public and medical science. Pospibly, owing to the increased cost of the maintenance of hospitals, State or municipal aid would be inevitable, but he hoped it would not involve State control. —Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.

LABOR AND BUILDING. Received Feb. 13, 11.5 p.m. London, Feb. 12: Following conferences between Cabinet and the master builders, it is understood the dilution of labor que® tion will be referred to the reconstruction committee, representing employer* and operatives, to which the employers are submitting an alternative scheme providing for the graduation of laborers to skilled work. Operatives fear a new sliding scale of reductions, and employers anticipate a slump owing to a labor shortage. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. 1 CONTROL OF GERMAN CA-BCES Received Feb. 13, 11.5 p.m. Washington, Feb. 12. The American Government will demand a definite settlement of the question of the disposition of former Ger-, man cables at the communications conference meeting on February 15. The United States will also insist that Yap should be open to all nations as a cable base on terms of equality. It is understood Britain is willing that the former German-United States . Atlantic cable, now touching British soil, should revert to its original position. France has already raised obstacles against restoration of the German cable, which she has diverted to Brest.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.