GERMANS' QUEST FOR COPPER

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2397, 1 March 1915, Page 5

GERMANS' QUEST FOR COPPER

POLISH CHURCHES DESECRATED. (Rec. February 28, 5.5 p.m.) Petrograd, February 27. •Lfla Germans are removing copper ' platesi from domes of tfie Oatfiolio churches m Lowicz. Seroi'al individuals who' protested were hanged in tie street. MOB RIOTS IN ITALY QUELLED' WITH 10SS OF LIFE. (Rec. February 20, 5.5 p.m.) . Rome, February 27. War interventionists and neutralists created riots at 11-eggioemilia. The troops iired on the rioters, killing two and wounding five. Several carbineers were injured. There have been disorders in several towns 'i'ho Government has prohibited pro-war and anti-war meetings. Interventionists demonstrated in tin ■ Chamber at the close of the session. STATEMENT BY THE PREMIER. DEPRECATES DEMONSTRATIONS.(Rec. -March I, 0.20 a.m.) Rome, February 27. Tne.ltalian Premier (Signor Salandra) speaking in the Chamber of Deputies', deprecated the faot that the supreme interests of the country were being weakened by riots. The Government aimed at preserving the country from unhealthy foreign influence. . He did not know whether the country ought to • ■ march or not, but when the call came, the nation would march unanimously at the country's and tho King's command. GERMAN SPY ARRESTED IN AMERICA . THE PASSPORT FRAUD AGAIN. (Rec. February 23, 5.5 p.m.) ' _ ■ New York, February 27. stegeler, a German naval reservist lias been arrested on a' oharge of fraudulently obtaining an American passport. He confessed that Captain Boyed, a German naval attache at Washington, endeavoured to induce him to proceed to England and act as a spy. " Captain Boyed denies the chaise. Stegeler declares that Boyed wished to discover whether the report was true that Britain had fitted out' merchant, cruisers at Belfast for the purpose of sinking them at the mouth of the Elbe, ■ ' the Weser, and the Oder, and blockade the ports. After discovering the movements of the British Fleet in the Irish: .Sea Stegeler was ordered, to proceed to Rotterdam to give German officers on the frontier a secret password, and to continue on to Berlin to deliver in-r formation to the Secret Service Bureau.