MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 August 1917, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[PEK Pit ESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.} - ' A. TURKISH FRIGHT. (lleoeived this day at 12.30 a.m.) ROME, August 14 The “Idea Nazionale' reports that the British fleet supported by land forces and powerful air squadron* was about to resume operations to force th® passage of the Dardanelles. IN THE OOMMONb. (Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) LONDON August 14. In the Commons the PacincisuS accepted Mr. Asquith’s advice not to pursue the matter further on the subject of the dropped War Loan Bill, through Committee. ' Mr. Bonar Law stated the pre-war taxation yielded 160 millions in 1917 and would' yield 570 millions, mainly by direct taxation. Government had tried to get the utmost-taxation, without destroying the power of financing by loans. The present bill was mtend--1 ed to meet debts incurred. BRITISH ECONOMY. IN MAKING AMMUNITION. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m.} LONDON, Aug. i. . The Public Accounts Committee estimates that notwithstanding the rise-of wages, a saving/of £43,000,000 effected in the cost of 1917, by the development of * system of ascertaining the cost of proauotion. Upwards of £8,000,000. were spent at Gretna factory, our largest projectile shell-filling establishment. It is estimated that in another twelve month* Gretna will psy for the whole expen** when compared with prices formerly paid for American products.' GETTING BLOCKED. Received, thi* day at 8.45 a.m.) STOCKHOLM, Aug. 14. An endeavour will possibly be made to hold the Socialists’ Conference -at Christiania or other Scandinavian city, 1 the authorities at Stockholm declining to grant the use of a hall therefore. GOLD WANTED. Received, thi* day at 8.'45 a.m.) • , AMSTERDAM, Aug. 14. Millions of Dutch eggs are delayed on the frontier, exporters refusing / 1 their despatch to Germany in th* absenoo of payment in gold. * CHINA DECLARES WAR. i (Received, This Dav at 8.60. a.m.) 1 , PEKING, Ah*. China has finally decided to declare war on Germany and Austria /simultaneously. THE POPE AND PEACE. (Received, Thi* D*'y at 8.50. a.m.) ROME, Aug. 14. The Pope has renewed nis peace proposals. THE POPE’S SUGGESTION. Received this day at 2.36 p.m.,) NEW YORK, August 14. Dispatches from Rome state the Pope had suggested to all belligerents the restoration of Belgium, Servia, and Roumania and the peaceful solution of the problems concerning Alsace-Lor-raine, Trent, Trieste, and Poland. TOLL OF THE SEA. ;• ~ {London timms service-—coetricht] (Received This Dav at 9.30. a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 14. > In the Commons, Mr. Roberts stated that 3,828 passengers, and 5,920 officers and seamen, had lost their lives in British merchant vessels, owing to enemy action, since the beginning of the war. •’ A TYPHUS PANIC. (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.l BERNE, Aug. 14. Hunger typhus is scourging many parts of Germany. There were 600 cases and 54 deaths at >, The diseaso is afflicting Cologne, Kar?- - A B ruhe and Mulhausen. The auth<tt»t»e* .-c >v diagnose it as dysentry, ordering night burials to quell the panic. , ■ • ’ .. V— * RIOT IN MADRID. ~ (Received,- This Day at 8.50. a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 14. Telegrams from Spain indicate tniv many persons were wounded in collisions between strikers and soldiers at Madrid.