MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 September 1917, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

SINK WITHOUT. MERCY. lAUSTRALIAN & N'.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION*] LONDON, Sep. 15. Apparently the submarines are striving to enforce the policy advocated by Count Luxburg to sink vessels without leaving a trace. The schooner Jane Williamson was attacked off Cornwall and tho orew of six men took to tho •boat, whifch the suuonwin© shelled. Three of tho crow were killed and the remaining three, who wero picked up the following morning wore seriously wounded. In the second case, the schooner W illiam was attacked and sunk by a submarine which then fired shrapnel on the crow* in tho boat, one being woundid.

MR BALFOuR’S VIEWS. fAUSTRALIAN <X* N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON, Sep. 15. Mr Isoiiar Law, in a previously unpublished speech, to a trade union deputation urging conscription of wealth, said:—“lt is simply a question is what is best in the country’s interests, whether a levy on capital or taxation spread over a long period. J do not say that a levy would be impossible, but it would bo ruinous to attempt it during the war.”

HIGH OFFICERS LYNCHED

COPENHAGEN, Sep. 15

Generals Crawovski and Stevanov and five high officers were arrested aViborg for joining General Korniloff’s movement. They were taken to the Town Hall to receive tlie sentence oi the Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Council. A mob of thousands of soldiers stormed the Town Hall and lynched the seven men arrested.

BOND BILL PASSED. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, September 36. The Senate has passed the Bond Bill passed without division. GERMAN CRUELTIES. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. WASHINGTON. September 16. The State Department has received reports of cruelties in German prison camps. Some Russian soldiers cut a tunnel with a knife and escaped. They state their diet was solely bread and turnip soup, with occasionally a little horse meat. Their tortures included enforced standing to attention for 24 hours, and suspension by tho wrist.

One labour battalion was reduced from two thousand to 500. A SUBMARINE SCARE.

Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. NEW YORK, September 16.

Reports of the submarine scare are conflicting. Some assert that destroyers aro scouring the coast of United States and others that ships were recently warned to look out for submarine dummy funnels-, masts and superstructure.

The Times hints that it. is possibly a German hoax.

AMERICA SUMMING UP,

(Received This Day at 9.30. a.m.) NEW YORK, September 16. Frank Simmonds writing in the “Tribune” examines the latest war statistics. He says Germany confront* the certainty of a four year with * reserve of loss than a million men, composed of boys. Simmonds believes that Germany will exhaust her. last reserves. before September 1918. Thenceforward, she will choose between hortening her lines or courting disaster.

SUGAR STRICTURES. Received, flu's day at 8.45 u.m.) WASHINGTON, September 16. President Wilson- has Issued a proclamation placing tho sugar industry under strict license. It is now virtually under Mr. Hoovers control, which will stop speculation. A MEXICAN DEMAND.

Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. NftW YORK, September 16. Mexican newspapers demand the expulsion of Von Eckhardt as the a iolater of neutrality.