MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1917, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

SERBIAN PRINCE HURT. ROME, Aug. b. Prince George, of Serbia, while inI specting troops bad liis horse shot un- . der him. He was badly injured and has gone to Switzerland for treatment. ! SERB LAN GIRLS DEPORTED. ) LONDON, Aug. 3. M. Passitch, the Serbian Prime Min- ( ister, states that tho enemy deported . to the Constantinople harems 8000 Ser- ! bian girls of from ten to fourteen , j years. CHINA AND GERMANY. PEKIN, Aug. 3. A Bill lias been passed declaring war on Germany. It awaits the President’s confirmation. WELSH MINER’S ATTITUDE rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] LONDON, August a. The South Wales Minors’ Conference by 112 to 43 recommend tho institution of a peace movement in the billigerent [ countries with a view to compelling a statement of tho war aims. The executive was instructed to draft a form for submission to the coal fields lodges, and afterwards to convene a special conference to deal with the subject. BRITISH LABOUR’S ATTITUDE (United Service Telegrams.) LONDON August 3. The Seamen’s and Master’s Associations have decided net to convey delegates to- Stockholm. The British Workers’ League and the Trades Union’s (Executive ha*vo passed motions that they will not meet enemy representatives during the war. GREEK AGITATIONS. fAUSTRALIAN <fc N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] ATHENS, August C. In view of the Royalists agitations a state of seige has been proclaimed in Attioa and Boetica. A NEW OFFICE. LONDON. August 3.' The House of Commons read a third time tho Bill establishing the Ministry of Reconstruction. GIFT OF AEROPLANES. LONDON August 4. The Overseas Club has handed over to tho Government eight aeroplanes costing £13,500, to celebrate the third anniversary of the war. The gift includes tho Christchurch banch’s gift of aeroplanes. TURKS CONCENTRATING. LONDON August 4. „ Huge Turkish forces are concentrating in Mesopotamia or Giyza as circumstances warrant. A well-informed source announces that there are numerous desertions of Turkish troops in tho Caucasus. The deserters have organised themsolves into- a band and wore working j against the Turkish army. j TO RECAPTURE BAGHDAD ROME August 3. “H Secolo’s” Athens correspondent : states that the Greek consul ’from . Constantinople states that two Turkish divisions from tho Dobrtidja and Galicia have been sent to Mesopotamia They are well-equipped with heavy artillery. Austrian and other troops are following. General Falkenhayn intends to make a great effort to recapture Baghdad in September.

THE GERMAN DENIAL.

PROOF OF. ITS FALSITY

[LONDON TIMtiW SERVICE—COPYRIGHT] (Received. This Day at 8.50. a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 5. In a letter to the “Times” Lewis Eienstin, lnte special agent to the American Embassy at Constantinople says that tho German officials deny the conference at Potsdam in July 1915. It is apparently no more veracious, than similar German declarations.

. Marquis Garroni, late Italian Ambassador at Constantinople told Einstin on July 15th 1914. Baron Wangen heim, then German Ambassador in Turkey, who returned from Berlin on July 14th told GniToni, that he was present at’ tho Conference whereat a war was decided on by means of an unacceptable ultimatum to Servia. Baron Wangenheim told another diplomatist that the month before the war the Kaiser summoned the leaders of tho Army, Finance, and Industry, and asked them if thpy were prepared for a war.

All replied that they were, while Wangenheim assured tho Kaiser that he would answer for Turkey. ■ AUSTRALIA’S TRADE. | (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK August o. The New York “Times’’ reports that Roschild of tho Government bureau of Commerce, New York, makes a most favourable comment of the largo foreign trade Australia enjoyed in 1916 despite tho severest war strain, ana predicted- a further increase in 1917, basing his statement on.figures of the crop reports from the American Consul General at Sydney. Ho states United States recently showed much in- ! terest in Australian trade possibilities | especially in view of Japan’s increased ! trade with Australia. I I GERMAN NAVAL OPINION. AMSTERDAM, Aug. 5 Captain Persius in summing up the naval work for the third year reiterates tho warning against exaggerated hopes of the submarines owing to the enemy possession of the greater part of the world’s tonnage. Also we must not overlook tho ship-building capacity oi America and Japan, to say nothing oi Britain. The latter’s naval superior itv onablos her in justice to claim th< command of sea power. GERMAN APOLOGY. STOCKHOLM, Aug. o. i The “Aftenbladt” states German, 7 has apologised for the sinking of i . Swedish vessel in the North Sea, cnc - says she will endeavour to avoid a re 5 currence, but is unable to promise, ill i lfcging that British anti-submarine ves sels are often disguised as neutrals.