1918-10-15 — Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Large Catch of Whales. The Norwegian State whaling: stations up to July 1 had caught 200 whales bat expected to catch in all 500 during the summer. "The stations had crdera to takai -care of the intestines and walt them down, as it is the intention to make gloves of them. The --msterial is fine in every respect, ipliable, soft, and exceptionally

strong. The manufacture of -gloves was to have commenced at

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American War Debt- The American war debt ja now aomewhat less than £2,500,000,- #000, or one-third the amount of Great Britain's war debt. Before the war both nations collected about the same amount in, taxes ssch year, approximately $200,- -000,000; Great Britain now'raisse $652,000,000 and the United States about, £800,000,000, bat as the population of the United Statee is more than double that of Great Britain, something like £1,000,000,000 would have to be their contribution if they were taxed in the eama proportion Be the people of Great Britain.

Gardening for American Convalescents,

In an jesus of the American Red Cross Bulletin, published in London, it is stated that scores of acres of vegetable gardens are to be found yielding a fine barvest in the grounds of the variona base hospitals in England, where American sick and wounded soldiers are being cared for. The -gardens were all cultivated eisher by oonvalescent patients or by the doctors, nurses, and staffe of the hospitala during their leisure hours. The work is treated sa s recreative agency to bring back -the men to a normal mental and

physical state.

Widow's Lart Adult Son. In the House of Commons re- -cently Sir John Batcher" asked the President of the Local Go Ternment Board if he would give, power to Tribunale to exempt from "military service the last surviving adult son of a widow or of a -woman whose husband wES A prisoner of war. In reply Mr. Stephen Walah said that Mr. Hayes Fisher had no power to extend the terms of the recent Proclamation which authorised Tribanale to grant exemption only in the case of the last umr- viving son of a widow of whom at least oze son had died of wounds.or sickness contracted on service. He added that s Boyal Proclamation might widen the powers of Tribunals, and that the whole matter was being consider. æd.

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Empire Oil Resources. Di. Porkin, speaking at lectare at King's College recently emphasised the importance of oila to England. Glycerius, he ssid, could be extracted from animal and vegetable oils, and the fact that, at the beginning of the war, we had allowed a con- eiderable amount of lard and other file to reach Germany through neutral sources had enabled the Germans to manu. factors the glycerine with which high explosive shells were pro pelled into the British trenches. The British Empire was mainly dependent on sea trazaport for its oil and petroleum supplies at the outbreak of war. Then the

-demand was not so enormous 89 at present. In his opinion the British Empire could be self- supporting in the matter of oil. "There were in the soustry mineral rescurcas from which petroleum, kerosene, paraffic wax, and fabricating oils could be manu factured. He knew that there were difficulties in regard to the new industry, sfarting of a

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Rescue from a Burilog Tank.

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