SERIOUS SITUATION IN MEXICO

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2928, 14 November 1916, Page 7

SERIOUS SITUATION IN MEXICO

CAUSED BY SUCCESS OF VILLA'S TROOPS. Australian-New Zealand Cable Ansociaiion. . Mexico City, November 12. . There is a serious situation owing to the capture of Parril, Wiminez, and Santa Rosatia by the Villa troops. It is' reported that Chihuahua is \ partly cut off. ■'■•'. LONDON NEWSPAPERS* DEARER "TIMES" TO BE SOLD AT ljd. Australian-New Zealand Oablo Association. London, November 12. .' : The "Weekly Dispatch" announces that the price of the London "Times" will be three-halfpence after ''November 18, It is expected that other Icadinc ■ newspapers will follow "The Times," : owing to the cost of paper. , [The "Times" for years was sold at 3d., when its leading contemporaries were selling at Id. When Lord Northcliffe acquired a controlling interest be reduced the price to Id.] .- NEW LAND IN THE ANTARCTIC WHAT THE SHACKLETON EXPEDITION DISCOVERED. , < i.ustrali<w-New Zealand Cable AsEodsAtAen. 'London, November 12. Mr. Frank Wild, who was leader of : the Shackleton party which was marooned on Elephant Island, in an interview, said: "During the voyage of the Endurance new land was discovered east of the Weddell Sea, near Coat's Land. Later, during the drift ice we disproved the existence of the so-called New South Greenland and Morrel Land. These discoveries were probably large bergs, for • we drifted rigbt over their location, and there found'twe hundred to two thousand fathoms of water." .' '■:'■ Films of the Shackleton expedition have arrived at Liverpool.

REUTER'S TELEGRAM COMPANY BRITISH SYNDICATES OFFER TO - PURCHASE. (Router's Telegram.) London, November 12. A syndicate, headed by the Hon, Mark Francis Napier, Lord Glenconner, Viscount Peel, and Sir Starr Jameson, offers to purchase Reuter's Telegram Company, with the object of ensuring that the* agency will continue independent of alien control. The existing administration will not be altered. '■jg> ■ : NEW ZEALANDERS AT FOOTBALL A MATCH IN LONDON; Australian-New Zealand Cable Associ*Uon. London, November 12. Playing Rugby football, tho New Zpa- • land Postal Corps beat the Australian • Pay Corps by 21 to 9. ARMY CANTEENS Australian-New Zealand Oable Association, . London, November 11. .«. The Army "Canteens Committee in abolishing the contract system, and abolishing tho more comfortablo and attractive canteens, at an initial outlay of £2,000,000.STEAMER FOUNDERS WITH LOSS OF LIFE (Keut«r's TolejranO I Torofjjo, November 10. '•'! The steamer Casfcaha ha.s bean sunk ,-. off Maniton Island.- Twenty of those ... : lon board were drowned. One was I saved.