MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1917, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

A SERVIAN APPEAL

A CRY FOR HELP. (Rooeivod This Dnv af, 9.50. a.m.l LONDON Sept. 4 The Press Bureau announces the Servian Press .Bureau publishes an appeal t>> all Allies for help to save the unfortunate Servian population. The internal conditions are deplorable. The enemy have removed the whole harvest and the inhabitants have only one loaf

weekly. The children are dying in

thousands for lack of milk. About eighty thousand interned Servian prisoners have perished in Austro-

Ilungary

G'EIiMAN WAR PRISONEItS

(Received This Dav at 19.25. p.in.f LONDON, Sept, 4.

A. ship that has arrived at Tyne, picked up six German war prisoners in a boat at sea. It is believed that the Germans are among those who recently escaped from camps in Britain. A small boat recently disappeared from Scarborough, and is believed to bo in connection with the attempted escape. A SERIOUS MATTER. (Received This Dav at 12.25. p.m i WASHINGTON, Sept, 4. Congress has adopted a resolution asking for details of tho assertion that one-third of the ammunition sent to General Pershing, in France, had been found to be defective.

, A PEACE CONDITION. WASHINGTON, September 4

The State Department announces that the American Gocvernment will • not insist on tho actual abdication of tho Hohonzollorn dynasty, as a condition of peace. United States will judge whether any attempted reforms arc bona-fide, and sufficiently eliminate tho sinister elements known Hohenzollerhism. MUTINY TN PORTUGAL. (Received This Day at 11.25. a.m.) MADRID, - September 4. Trouble in Portugal is reported. There were mutinies on somo warships and many wore arrested. Trains wore stopped.

CONGRESS RESOLUTION

f ‘ ‘llKUTUn’s” rKLEGRAM.]

(Received This Day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON September 4. The Trade Union Congress at Blackpool decided against participation in t)i(‘ Stockholm Conference at present by 2,849,000 to 91,000. A committeo of the employers of nten at Shipyards on tho Tyne, has boon formed to accelerate shipbuilding and avoid wastage of inan-powor.

LABOUR CONGRESS

Reuter’s Telegrams

(Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) LONDON September 4.

Tho Labour Congress division was an question of the Committee’s report cabled yesterday. Mr. Smellio proposing tho adoption affirmed that tho Labour Party was almost rout in twain by the Stockholm question. The Committee’s rooommondation amounted to a compromise, with a view to securing unity. The great need of tho moment was a close relationship of the Labour of Allied nations. However, Labour’s voico must bo hoard in the peace settlement. Mr. Havelock Wilson reiterated that tho seamen would never carry delegates to Stockholm.