MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2285, 20 October 1914, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

A BOY'S ADVENTURES. (Rec, October 19, 5.50 p.m.)' London, October 18. A Ramsgate lad whoso, father and five ■ uncles are serving wpth the colours walked to London 'and called at Buckin"ham Palace, and " then at Scotland Yard, and asked to see Lord Kitchener. By accident Lord Kitchener tvas visit* in" Scotland Yard, and was stopped by tlio boy, who said he wished to become a recruit. Patting tho lad on the. shoulder Lord Kitchener said: Too young, sonny; wait till you get older. ■ He sent tho boy to the Military Trains ing School.—( ! Tnue&" and Sydnoj? •"Siin" Services.) . J DISGUISED GERMANS SHOT. (Rec. October .19, 10.30;.p.in.) Paris, October 18. Two German officers -• disguised civilians, who wore-, caught, were court* martialled, and ordered to bo shot. AUSTRALIAN FINANCE. Melbourne, October 19. Mr. Andrew Fisher, Federal Prirfloi Minister, states that the note issue will be mainly used to finance tho States. Increased taxation was not content* plated at present, but would come later, when tho position was more clearly da 2 fined. i TROOPS FOR THE TROPICS. Melbourne, October 19. The military authorities proppso t<l establish a. new force for service in the tropics. Volunteers under fifty.years of ago are invited.-* Previous military oxporience js unnecessary. The period of eervico will be until the end of tho war* ' ARRESTS IN BERLIN. Paris, October 18k The Berlin polico have arrested the members of the British Relief Committee working at the British Consulate under the survoillancei of the Amorican Embassy. -■■-. ' ', Dospite the censor, and despite th« many contradictions (remarks the San Francisco "Weekly Chronicle"), it must yet be ssiid iii all fairness to tho world's uows gathering service that information concerning tho present war has been as full and as rcliablo as ever it was. Those long accounts from correspondents who professed to write as eyewitnesses of battles have been missing, but the fanciful descriptions which wevo not really information can well b9 spared for the greater promptnese shown in presenting the official despatches. If those- lattor have often beon contradictory, it _ has yet been, comparatively easy to pick out tho element of truth contained in them. Contrasted with tho news of 1870, tho present accounts liavo been modols of accuracy, as anyouo can seo if he takos tl)'o trouble to look up tho old files. I'o-day there arc- 'errors and partisan statements, but their refutation follows mere rapidly than we received the orig-