MISCELLANEOUS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2359, 15 January 1915, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS.

GERMANS WORKING FRENCH COLLIERIES Amsterdam, January 13. The newspaper "Telegraaf" says the Germans are employing 40,000, miners in the collieries at Mons, Leige, and Oharleroi, and.sending coal to Germany. They ar© also sending timber from Namur, Brabant, and Hainault. CAPTURED GERMAN GUNS. , London, January 13. ;The Government is considering how to dispose of about a hundred captured guns now in England. Some have already been exhibited in the provinces, the,object being to ;assist recruiting. OPENING OF FRENCH TARLIA- : MENT. London, January 13. ; One hundred and twenty-five members of the: French Chamber of Deputies serving at the front will attend the : opening of Parliament on Tuesday next. "-("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Ser- ■ vices.) MOUTH ORGANS FOR. SOLDIERS AND SAILORS. . (Reo, January 14, 6.25 p.m.) London, January 14. . A London firm has completed an order for ten. thousand mouth organs for the fleet and eight thousand for the soldiers.—("Times", and ydney "Sun" Services.) TOMMY ATKINS SURPRISES HERR /'/.- HARDEN. . (Rec. January 14, 5.25 p.m.) London, January 14. Herr Maximilian Harden/writing in the newspaper "Zukunft," declares that "the British Tommy has amazed-us aIL ■We thought, his first lines were something funny from England,' but now wo all take him seriously.'-' He comments bitterly on Britain's mastery of the sea, and swallowing up of Germany's large colonial territories.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) CANADA'S THIRD CONTINGENT.\Rec. January 14, 5.25 p.m.) London, January 14. Canada is mobilising her third contingent. Tha authorities are investigating the New Zealand system of franchise at the elections. —("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) KING GEORGE'S SOLICITUDE FOR . THE WOUNDED. (Rec. January 14, 5.25 p.m.) '. London, January 14. King George is sending his private motor-car on surprise visits to the hospitals to take wounded soldiers for drives.—-("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ■ GRAND DUKE NICHOLAS. : ' (Rec. January 15, 1.5 a.m.) London, January 14. Grand Duke Nicholas, .in supreme command of the ■ Russian armies, has been invested with the Honorary Grand Cross of the Bath. '