MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2267, 29 September 1914, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

COMMUNICATIONS WITH PRIS- : ONERS. (Rec. September 28,,-10.30 p.m.), Rome, September 27. The Geneva International Red Cross. Society has founded an agency to enable prisoners of war to communicate with their families and receive replies. WIRELESS TO; GERMANY. ■ (Rec. September 28, 10.30 p.m.) r ~ Washington, September 27. The wireless station ,at Sayvillo, Long Island, the only ono'capable of mnking direct communication with Germany, is officially authorised to oporate regularly in commercial communications , until January. ■ MR. CARNEGIE'S VIEW' • (Rec September 28, 6.30 p.m.) London, September 27. .Mr. Andrew Carnegie declares that the Kaieer is the most sorrowful and' pitiful man 'in Europe. The military caste arranged the war while the Kaiser was yachting, and.when ho returned the mischief had been done. —("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) TO REPLACE GERMAN HARDWARE. London, September 26. Mr. Milne, on behalf of the Board of Trade, has collected 430 samples of foreign aluminium goods. They are mostly of Germnn and Austrian makes, which compote with British goods in the Australasian market. They are being exhibited in Birmingham and Sheffield, and will bo shown later in London and other industrial centres. ENEMY'S MERCHANTS' ACTIVE. Ottawa, September 27. A number of large German firms attempted to secure secret trade by way of Holland, but did not find a single Canadian to assist the Empire's enemy. MOUNT MORGAN DIVIDEND. Brisbane, September 28. The Mount Morgan directors notify that owing, to the inability 'to sell copper, and in view of conserving tho finances,'and so affording as much employment as possible,' the dividend duo in October will be temporarily withheld. PRUSSIAN "CULTURE." London, September 26. Mr. Austen Chamberlain recalls that when he was a student in Berlin, a professor, preaching on the superiority of the Prussian spirit, said it was the duty of Prussia to make its culture and civilisation supreme throughput the world. Britain was the greatest obstacle... thoueh the. ouJj: reproach against.

English statesmen was that they kept, danger too secret.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) "THE TIMES" AT FIVE SHILLINGS. London, September 26. "The Times" is purchasable surreptitiously in Brussels at six francs (about 55.) a copy.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)