MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
CABLE RATES UNDULY HIGH. (Reo. September .29, 6 p.m.) London, September 28. "The Times," in a leader, says the cable companies in charging full rates for _ plain language 'cables are making; an illegitimate profit out of the Government prohibition of code cabling. The rates ought to be considerably cheapen, edj and the censorship ought to be cap. able of discriminating in favour of commercial firms of recognised standing as Japan did in the Russo-Japanese -War.'
. REUTER'S AGENCY IN REPLY. (Rec. September 29, 6 p.m.) London, September 28. Router's News Agenoy. in reply to tne "Times" leading article, states that it has never pubJislied news transmitted by the German bureau affecting British interests'adversely, unless plain matters of fact are to be so interpreted. —('•Times" and Sydney "Sun' , Serfices.) -
The "Times," in its leader, aekedt "Did Router's Agenoy take any precautions when communibating" to "the Press its telegrams from Berlin to give warning that those telegrams were of Gere man official or semi-official .origin, eo as t-p enable the"pulilfo"to"3istniguisli between such telegrams and those dispatched by Reuter's own correspondents?" ' ' ; -■ " ' ■'
GERMAN-NEW ZEALAND SERVICE.
(Reo. September 30, 1.35 a.m.) Sydney, September 29." Advices state that the German stea- '■""; mer Wismaiy bound for New Zealand, I has taken refugo at Baujuwangij in •"■ Java. .' ."'■'■ ■'■'.- ""■' [
Tlie Wismar was to have opened the proposed direct service' 'between Germany and New Zealand. She is a ves. eel of 4686 tons belonging to the Ger« raan-AustraJian lino. ;
SMALL TRANSACTIONS IN WHEAT. Sydney, September 29. Transactions in wheat are limited to Government sales Holders in the country are dissatisfied with the price fixed by the Government. The meat' markets" are weak and prices cheaper.
A RUTHLESS ENEMY. Sydney, September 29. Archbishop \Yrigbt, in his charge to Sjnod, described the German war methods as ruthless and merciless as those of the Huns. '■ ■■
"Mobilisation has wrung the hearts . ■■.; of millions upon millions, or lvoinen,'! > wrote a London coiws'pondent early in : August. "lii Europe the best part of : 12,000,000 m.m have been pressed into altivo eervice. A gentleman who came, from St. Petersburg through' IJe'rfui and- •■ Pans to London, said that the only "~ thing tho countries through which ho passed had in common wore weeping women., For 1500 miles "he wae the forced witness of au endless succession iof .heartbreaking partings. In Great Britain mobilisation has been under-' taken and completed with the iriost extraordinary celerity and smoothies. Men have disappeared from their homee -; and their daily toil and joined fiieir regiments at their different barracks .without the faintest sign of any social dislocation. Tho heads of tho British Army merit the gratitude of tho nation - for the perfection of their nlans. At the same time there aro few families in England who have nal cauSO to kuow that war is upon ue. I had occasion i to employ an emergency typist. Hβ ' told me, in the evening, that his fivo ; brothers, who are all anyal reservists, and who aro all married, had been summoiled to tho great ,uayal bases." I ■ waited for him tho next evening in vain He also was a Territorial reserve, and had gono thp same way ae his brothers '■ But iii England there has-been no hard- ' ship in the homes, no compulsion iipop the consciences of men. Everyv.-Ihti. I tbero has been joyous" compliance with .; tho mobilisation order. In France aid , :i Riissia it has been the same. Bat : i ; ' ;■' Germany and Austria, with their lar > ! infusion of Serus, thoro has been a tiv of blood wherever the ronnding-up o'!cors have gone." Serbs have refused ifire ujibn their brothers "in blood, an.' ' they havo been shot down as they stood Not hundreds,' but thousands of nion ■ have been' coerced into taking their '■ .stand beneath a hated flag to attack '!
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2268, 30 September 1914, Page 5
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