, 1915-06-30

eminent expenses Tor three moGths, Degln'
ming with July, has passed the Chamber OF
Deputies by II vote of 1872 TO l. Upon i'm
ishing his explanation of the Bill, NJ. Rlbot,
the Minister of Finance, was surrounded by
his Ministerial colleagues and his opponents
all offering their congratulations while the
Deputies stood and cheered.
A despatch to the Central News Agency
from Rotterdam states that bombs dropped
by British aviators near RouleIs, III BelSi-
um, caused the explosion of a large ammunl-
ton depot and killed so German soldiers VINO
were loading an ammunition train:
The Amsterdam correspondent OF the
same Agency states that several trains
loaded with heavy guns have left Es-
sen for the German front on the Bzura
river, in Poland, to be used i'll the advance
against Warsaw.
A despatch from Toxic states that Major
Nakapima and Captain Hahimoio, officers
fighting with the Russians at Lemberg,
committed hari kari rather than suffer the
dishonour of being made prisoners of war,
according to an official bulletin from Petro-
grad.
The Victoria Cross has been awarded to
Lieutenant-C Commander Nasmith, for taking
his submarine, the E IL, into the Sea of
Marmora and sinking Turkish transports,
storeships and a g%unboat. Lleutenants boy
", Hughes and Brown have received the
Distinguished Service Gross aud each of the
crew the Distinguished Service Medal.
The Trades Union proposal for the VOL
untary enrolment of Unions workers il pro-
ceeding favourably. Many ~jneligibies have
been rejected and also some metal workers
without the necessary experience, and ia
miiy men with The stipulation Of non
transfer, mobility being essential, but never
theles 900 men have enlisted IN Birmlng.
ham, and at Glasgow, Manchester and Liv-
erpool a boom is expected after the weekend.
Only the miners are stubborn, and MIR.
Smile, President of the Miners Federation,
says that the position is as serious MS when
the demand for a minimum wage was nude
in 1912.
Mr.. Runciman, President of the Board of
Trade, in the course OF a speech said ii was
imperative to economic coal, owing to the
enlistment of 100000 miners, and that it was
impossible to allow coal, meat and -four to be
sold at abnormal prices, therefore, if it was
not possible otherwise 10 keep these prices
within reasonable limits, the Government
would take drastic measures disagreeable to
those against whom they might be taken.
Everybody should eat less meat aud the
millers should reduce the price of -four,
The Government, he declared, does not de-
sire to take over the entire food supply. In
Flanders we have made provisions Tor de-
fence, however great the attack may be, our
numbers there being adequate for any task,
and our turn will come. We are learning
now how TO deal with the submarine menace,
and truer now than when the statement was
made in April. We have enough explosives
for our own use and also are overcoming our
shortage of munitions, and soon there VIII
be enough for ourselves and the Russians
AID possibly for the French, if the latter
need them.
The English newspapers approve of the
memorandum TO the United States upon the
Order in Council, expressing the opin-
ion that The Government has gone to
The limit to meet the American objections,
and that it would not be justified IN consi-
deIing the profits of neutrals against the
safety of the armies of the Allies.
New York, June 27th-Tbe United States
newspapers regard the British memorandum
as evasive upon the points raised i'll the Uni
ted States Note as published on April 18th.
The United States prefers the law to be OBJ
served rather than damages to he paid for
the breaking Of the law. England stops
trade between neutrals in non-contraband,
and kilograms from Washington forecast q
reiteration of the United States Note to