STOP PRESS NEWS Chronicle Office ,3 p.m.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 September 1915, Page 3

STOP PRESS NEWS Chronicle Office ,3 p.m.

GREECE AND THE ALLIES. Athens, September 2. Greece and Great Britain have sigued a commercial agreement hxing the total importations and exportations 'between Greece and the Allies. Greece undertakes to prevent ail traffic in contraband and the Entente permits the free exportation ol tobacco, raisins, and currants, and the importation of all goods exclusively reserved for local Greek consumption. LONDON' MARKETS. London, September 2. Wheat is quiet and unchanged; llonr is lifeless and oats is very quiet.; tieans are firm, peas are steady, Ncnv Zealand blue peas from (jOs to 80s. COALMINING CONFERENCE. London, September 2. A national conference of the coalmining industry met at the Home Office. The masters and men agreed that the necessity has not yet arisen to suspend the Eight Hours' Act, nor ?vojuld the suspension materially increase the production. Eli'oi ts should be made to restrict w<w\kers from absenting themselves lrom work ami atbolin the inequalities of labour in the various districts.

THE RECENT UUtelAy SUCCESS. Paris, September 2. A communique hails joyfully the Russian success at Strypa. and adds that this victory shows that the Russian armies are masters oi the conditions ol their retreat, and continue to be capable of assuming the offensive whenever the circumstances are favourable. Particulars show tiiat the heavy artillery struggle in the Artois. the A'rgonne and the Verges continues. J lie French batteries silenced those of the enemy. CALLING UP lIEJECTS. Berne, Sept. 2. Twelve thousand Germans in Switzerland, who previously were rejected for physioal reasons have been recalled to Germany for service. Relatives are anxious as to the fate of the earlier recruits, as no casualties ol Germans from Switzerland have been published since November. ———m—i