MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 June 1917, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(Per Press Association —Copyright) CANADIAN RECRUITING OTTAWA, June 5. There is a boom in the.eastern Canadian cities in recruiting rinco the conscription proposal. Enlistments have doubled. METAL RESOURCES. LONDON, Juno 5. The War Cabinet has applied a committee to prepare a scheme for establishing an ImperiaUMinernl Resources Bureau .to collect information n's to the Empire’s mineral resources and metal requirements, and to adviwo methods of development. Tho committee includes Lord Islington, Sir Thos. Mackenzie, and Messrs W. S. Robinson, Scliroiner, and G. H. Peley. TR EATMENT OF JEWS. Madrid, June sth. The G-ermanophile press publishes an official Note, inviting tho Government to nominate a commission to verify the incorrectness of the reports about the alleged massacre of Jews in Palestine. THE IRISH CONVENTION. TAUSTRALIAN & X.Z. CAULK ASSOCIATION] LONDON, Juno 5 In tho House of Commons M. Bonar Law stated that the Government had complotod the Irish Convention and was awaiting the decision of some of tho parties who had been invited to participate The Ulster Unionist Council will bo summoned on Friday to discuss the Convention . BRITAIN’S FINANCE. [ ‘ ‘itEUTRrtV ’ TELEGRAM.] LONDON, Juno 5 . Since the war tho Post Offico applications for war Loan exchequer bonds and war saying certificates totalled £l9l, 000.000. This lias not nffected tjio savings bank, deposits which are now £185,400,000 compared with 188,000,000 for tho previous year Tho figures are a remarkable tribute to the. financial strength to the country.

AMERICAN LOAN . In the House of Commons, Mr. Bonar Law .stated that America had advanced Britain £80,000,000. SOCIALISTS CONFER. COPENHAGEN, June 0 .Negdtidtions have begun between the German majority Socialists and the*'Dutch and Scandinavian delegates at Stockholm. ARREST OF SPIES.

(Received This Dav at 9.30. a'.m.) NEW YORK, June 5.

There have been further arrests of alleged spies. The police state a ware less apparatus was shipped to Mexico in separate parcels.

It is also alleged that they induced sailors to deliver letters to German agents in Norway. There have been 140 German agents who were encouraging aryti-cqnscrip-tionists, arrested and interned during the week.

CHINA’S PRESIDENT.

NEW YORK, June 5. Chinese newspapers have received a cable from China that the Vice-Presi-dent has resigned. AMERICA'S ARMY. (Received This Day at 9.30. a.m.) NEW YORK, June t>. President Wilson has issued a pioclamation urging the opposing factors to arrange everything in readmes to to registration day. It is expected that nearly a million will rogistor, whereof the War Department selects the material wherefrom to form an army of 615,000.

FRENCH CONFIDENCE IN THE GOVERNMENT. (Received, This Dav at 8.50. a.m.) PARIS, Juno 6. The Chamber of Deputies has concluded a three days’ secret debate. M. Ribot’s speech was the main subject. The Chamber adopted, by 453 to 55, a vote of confidence in the Government, recalling the solemn protest of the Alsatians at Bordeaux in 1861, affirming the necessity of the restoration of Alsace and -Lorraine to France. The ex-minister, AT. Noulens was appointed Ambassador to Russia. .

GERMAN NEWS AMSTERDAM, June 5. The Uolongo Gazette semiofficially says those who thought peao* zephyrs -were blowing fust change their minds declaration that territorials lritlst. bo evacuated and the call from Paris again to summon belligerents to .arms. Any peace discussion must only bo condemning.' Czech Socialists hWe received their passports to attend at Stockholm. HAUL FOR THIEVES. (Received This Dav at 9.30. a'.m.) LONDON, Juno 5. ■ Thieves plundered mappin Webb’s show cases in the vestible of Carlton Hotel securing valuables worth £15,000 IN SWEDISH WATERS. LONDON, June 5 - German submarines are actively destroying Swedish fishing boats near Kostfer

Tho home food question in Austria is increasingly critical. All 1 ' food parcels for Italian prisoners are systematically used to feed tho starving population. BRITISH PRISONERS. [“reuteb’b” telbgeam.] LONDON, June 5. In tho House of Commons the Post master-General stated that tho British prisoners in Germany number 42,831 and tho Gorman prisoners in tho United Kingdom 58,138.

SOCIALISTS DISAGREE. ZURICH, June 6. Te International section of German Minority Socialists refuse to attend the Stockholm Conference.. Mehring, tho leader explains to the that he refuses to atten the same conference as Selieidmnnn. leader of tho German Socialists.

SUFFERING DENMARK. (Received Tins Dav at 10.15. am.) COPENHAGEN, Juno 6. A Commission of most of the ,proniine)nt representatives of Danish countries to negotiate with belligerents trade and industry is visiting foreign on important questions regarding the conditions of life in Denmark, which is on the verge of catastrophe. She is suffering as much hardship as if she had been a belligerent.

WITHIN THE .LAW,

RIO DE JANIERTO, June 6

Replying to Germany’s- protest against requisitioning German ships, Government declared that" Brazil liad actod within the strict limits of tho law.