THEIR ROYAL POCKETS EMPTYING

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2518, 20 July 1915, Page 5

THEIR ROYAL POCKETS EMPTYING

By Telegraph—Press Association—Ooprrijhll

(Rec. July 19, 10.33 p.m.) Rome, July 19. A private letter from Berlin states that the Kaiser's personal fortune has been greatly diminished He is interested in many of the industries which, havei now been ruined, and also in steamship companies which have lost very heavily; The Kaiser has already lost one hundred million marks (£4,000,000), while the Kings of Bavaria; Saxony, and Wurtemburg, and the Grand Duke of Badeit have also had heavy losses. "DECLARATION DAY" SOLEMN RESOLUTION FOR' WAR* ANNIVERSARY, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. July 19, 7.30 p.m.) London, ,Julv 18. ■ A Central Committee of the National Patriotic Organisations, organised by. Mr. Asquith (the Prime Minister), Lord Rosebery, and Mr. A. J. Balfour (First Lord of the Admiralty), has completed arrangements to hold meetings throughout the Empire on August 4, the anni« versary of Britain's declaration of war. The Dominions are enthusiastically sup* . porting the movement. ; Mr. Asquith; and Mr. Bonar Law, (Minister for the have approved of the submission at all the meetings of the following draft resolution:— "On this, the anniversary of tie : declaration of a righteous war, this meeting records its inflexible determination to continue to a victorious end the struggle for the mainten- ' auce of those ideals of liberty and! justice which are the common and sacred causo of the Allies."'