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Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 December 1915, Page 3

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(.Received This Day 9 a.m.) A PR UDENTTAL MEASURE. Pans, !sov. 3D. Tlie Chamber of Deputies has adopted a bill authorising the calling up of the 1917 class as a prudential measure. JUNES li\" THE DANUBE. FuSoareat, iVov. 3D. Mines are laying Tti the Roumanian Haters of the lower Danube. "DOWN WITH GERMANY." While reading iiis speech the King w as obliged to pause, owing to the Oppositionists crying: "Down with vGerinany and Hungary! .Lead us into Transylvania!" The Ministerialists tried to <lre\vn the shouts with cheers. i-'ALL IN EXCHANGE KATE. New York, Dec. <1. •A remarkable drop in the value & the German exchange has taken placo during the past two days, and the.value of the four marks is now quoted ai 79s 5 the rate was 84 before the Serbian campaign. GERMANS IN PERSIA. 'Petrograd, Dec. 1; The Novoe Vremya's 'iiflis correspondent says that the Germans have transported a huge Quantity of hoiribs, machine guns, rifles, and other military supplies from Teheran to Ispahan and Hamadan, The members of the Government palpably are German sympathisers and foes of the Entente, ana, the Sliah is power less. . KAISER'S VISIT TO VIENNA. London, Dec. 1. The Daily Mail's Rome correspondent says that the Kaiser's visit to Vienaa was duo ,to acute Austro-German dissensions, chiefly. on questions relating to Poland.

Received this Day. 10 a.m. SENSATIONAL DISCLOSURE New York. Dec. 1 Sensational disclosures were made by Dr Karl Uuenz, managing director of the Hamburg-American Shipping Company, when examined for " the American Government's case for alleged conspiracy against the United states, in fitting out steamers ut American ports to assist German warships in the Atlantic and the Pacific. Buenz admittedi that full instructions had been" issued from Berlin a year before the war broke out telling him how to secure neutral vessels to supply German warships it the British navy held the sea communications. The Hamburg-American line had a private' agreement with the German Government in "tins regard. It received one million dollars since the war began, direct from Berlin, to enable i to carry out its agreement Captain Boyed acted as intermediary for Germany at the Embassy at Washington, and was fully cognisant of every detail of the conspiracy and of all documents were handed in for transmission to Germany. Although Britain had served the cables in. the Atlantic att«r the war began, the Hamburg-Amer-ican line was able to maintain constant cable communication with Germany.

CHRISTMAS ENTERTAINMENTS

The New Zealand War Contingent Association, is arranging flbr Christmas entertainments at Epsom and Weymouth.