MISCELLANEOUS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2308, 16 November 1914, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS

HOW BRITISH RAILWAYS HANDLED WAR TAKFFIC. j (Rec. November 15, 3.30 p.m.-. London, November 14. i A railway manager explains the amaz- i ing speed with which tho railways hail- 1 died the military traffic at the outbreak i of the' war. Three hundred and fifty < trains, thirty vehicles each, arrived at < Southampton in forty-eight hours. The { military organisation for ralway' con- i trol had been completed only a few days t before. 1 SHORTAGE IN DYES; ' r (Rec. November 16, 3.30 p.m.) ' c London, November 14. ' Owing to a deficiency in dyes, due [ to the cessation of German I supplies, the s British Board of Trade is considering a the, formation of an English company n to which t'he Government will subscribe h a portion of the capital and guarantee t the interest on the debentures : for five 'jj years.- Twenty-two leading firms sup- a port the proposal. 1 ' g BRITISH LOANS TO AFFLICTED « .< , STATES.. a (Rec. .November 15, 5.5 p.m.) o London, November 14. It is officially announced that Britain has advanced £2,910,000 to Belgium, and £800,000 to Sc'rvia . E

FOOD SUPPLIES REACH' BRUSSELS

(Rec. November 15, 5.5,: p.m.)' . . Amsterdam, November 14. Consignments from four tugs manned by Dutch and carrying a thousand tons of food, liavo reached the American Minister, at Brussels under Field-Mar-shal von Der Goltz's safe conduct. Eighty per cent, of the inhabitants of the country districts are existing on green vegetables. A DEMENTED DUKE. Copenhagen, November 14. ..Reports state that the Duke of Cumberland (and of Brunswick-LuneboTg) has been found wandering in a demented condition as the result of the war, and that he has been . placed in an asylum. KAISER UNLOADING HIS PROPERTY. London, November 14. The' Kaiser has-offered his marble' palace at Corfu at a low price to a' German hotel'syndicate. He fears that it will, be v confiscated if Greece- joins the Allies:—"Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) GERMANY'S BOASTED MILLIONS. ■ .London, November 14. Berlin' boasts that Germany is able to send six million more trained men into the fighting lines.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services,) "TIMES" AT £9 A COPY. London, November 14. A correspondent who escaped from Brussels has arrived in London. He says that extraordinary interest is taken by civilians in -Brussels in the "Times" war news. Single copies fetched 180 shillings each. Remarkable business was done. /Duplicated type-written copies, specially relating to the operations in Belgium, were sold and circulated by stealth; and brought forty shillings each to customers who smuggled away the precious sheets and read them with delight— (''limes" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) . BANKRUPTCIES IN HAMBURG. London, November 13 The "Standard" states that the petitions in bankruptcy filed in Hamburg alone since the beginning of the war disclose a deficit of twenty-five millions sterling.. AN ADDITION TO AUSTRALIA'S NAVT.

Sydney, November 14. Senator Pearce. Federal Defence Minister, las approved of tlie captured German. gunboat Komet (captured at Rabaul, New Guinea) being renamed the Una, and recdmmission?d.