MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1917, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(Per Press Association —Copyright)

CANADIAN POLITICS.

OTTAWA, June 9

Sir P. Borden is attempting' to form a Unionists’ Government, taking in Liberal Conscriptionists. A majority of thirty-five for the Conscription Bill is assured.

AMERICA’S GENERAL.

LONDON, Juno 8.

General Pershing the Commander of the American Expeditionary, with his staff has arrived at Liverpool. Admiralty and War Office representatives welcomed him.

Interviewed General Pershing said ho was proud to-be the standard ..nearer of his ocuntry, in this great war for civilisation. Ho hoped American would be able to play a big part on tli Western Front. /

, PASSPORT® FOR RUSSIA. LONDON, Juno 8. Lord Robert Cecil, speaking in the Commons, said Mrs. Pankhurst had not applied for her passports. Tho War Cabinet decided it was desirable to issue passports to Macdonald and Jowott as tho Russian Government strongly desired a minority and majority representation, at Petrograd, and ■expressly wished delegates of the Independent Labour Party come. The ■Ambassador at Petrograd advised that refusal would lead to seriouß misconception in Russia. Tho passports were not intended to enable ' the holders to participate in the Stockholm Conference and would be issued on that understanding. ARRIVED IN FRANCE. WASHINGTON, June 8. It is anounced that 100 Americans n aval aviators and the first contingent of Regulars have arrived in France. ! MISSION TO AMERICA. i | WASHINGTON, June 8. : Roumania and Switzerland are sending commissioners to the United States j A RECORD SUBSCRIPTION NEWTORK, June 8 Mr. Morgan baa subscribed £50,000, 000 to the “Liberty Loan.”

GERMAN METHODS. PARIS June 8. The newspaper “Les Nouvelles” states fihat the Germans fined Mons 500,000 marks on the pretext that the Allied air rads were duo to a publshed statement that Prince Rupprecht and the Bavarian sta ffwere then at Mons. The newspaper said there is reason to believe that a 'German general and possibly another high officer were killed during the raids. The German newspapers announce that the airman Schaefer who brought down thirty Allied aeroplanes was killed in a fight with a British air squadron. ROUMANIAN FEARS. LONDON, June 9. Tho “Daily Chronicle’s” Roumanian corresondent states that tho whole of correspondent states that tho whole of situation wth the greatest anxiety. Rou mania is irrevocably bound to the Allies and any defection on Russia’s part will result in the disapearnnee of Roumania from the comity of nations. The army is ready and eager and awaits tho signal for the attack, but the indifferenco and inertia of her powerful neighbour means paralysis. Its inactive guns and rifles are silent everywhere. Tho Gormans are continually showerng leaflets advocating peace saying that the Itoumnians aro the victims of French and English duplicity. German agents disguised as Russian officers readily cross tho frontier seeking to overthrow the Roumanian dynasty, but ho Roumanian soldiers refused to be cajoled into betraying their king.