MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 24 September 1917, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS

KIR RE PRICES. r.ursTHAT.TAN A: N.y,. CA'tr.F, association «t R KM'Ell.] I.ON l)0.\ , September *_M. , The Army Council lias iiN«*d tile maximum prices, for Now Zealand licmmp and s ial fibre in order to swore farmer hinders twine at a reasonable price. THE (T .M U Ell LAND. EXPERTS STATE SHE STRUCK A .MINE. [PEH PRESS ASSOCIATION. COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, tfept. 21. The Oumhorland inquiry aroused eon sideraMe interest owing to t-lio lingo insurance. It is stated that €1.000,000 is involved. Iho vessel and. cargo Mere insured as a war risk under the Imperial seliemei, and also as an ordinal \ risk through Australian offices. Affording t<> expert evidence the ( um-In-rland struck a mine. The opinion is expressed that . the way the plates were blown inwards makes it impossible for the explosion to have been internal. Tile Wavy Department, however, is not satisfied and has requested further evidence. It favours holding a marine court of inquiry. SERBIA’S AGONY. 2,00.000 SEEKERERS. LONDON, Sept. 20 Agonising details have been received of the situation of the Serbian population, which normally was 3,170000, but is .now 2,218J000. The reduction in the male population is 3S per cent, including practically all tiie males from eighteen to sixty years. Thirty thousand Serbian " women, children and boys from the Nish district were deported and interned ji.u Asia Minor, where KOOO wore delivered to the Turks. A great number of women preferred suicide, throwing themselves out of trains going to Asia Minor. Those left in Serbia ,are continually writing to friends, saying, -‘Send us bread or we will die.” At the present Lime only £6,000 is being spent monthly in Serbian relief, though there are 2,000,000 sufferers, including 60,000 families without any means of living. HOLIDAY I'OR MENOTTAWA, SeiiLeniber 20. Sir Robert Borden in answering a question in Parliament said Unit be understood that no steps had aO been taken in Australia to secure the return from the front for holiday of men composing the first 5,000 dispatched to the war. No such action was contemplated in reference to the Canadian forces.

CHEAT and gloriofs dan.' [“KEUTEn’s” fKIjECUAM.] LONDON, September 21. Router's headquarter's correspondent 1 utalos: —A largo percentage «f the prisoners captured in the latest push are you hr chiefly Bavarians. Aniesscnger dog captured bore a message ordering that the high ground towards AfolenaarcTsthoelv must be recaptured at all costs and ordering that all guns possible should range on it. Ihe work oT consolidating is strenuously progressing under the nroteetion of a heavy barrage. The ground won is <>l '"ital tactical and of high strategical importance. The day has been a' great, and glorious one for the armies in .(‘’landers. NEAT ZD A 1! .'ANDERS’ WORK. LONDON, September 21. Reuter’s correspondent at headquarters, describing the latest. British advance, savs, that considering l lie cii-teumstniv.-es, the .oamm'iinieatioii was good. Credit for this is due to the New Zealand Brigade, which, during the comparatively short period ol pieparation, preceding the attack buried over 30,000 I'oet of telegraph cable so deeply that it could defy any shellum Bv the devotion of various divisions remaining in the line longer than usual, it was possible to pi t more than a normally large proportion of fresh troops into this attack. KAISER T'EAISES LCXRFRC. r.vnSTIUUAN’ A. N'.z. CAM I*ls ASSOCIATION & r.EUTKU.J LONDON. Sepembcr 20. A wireless official message from Berlin su'ys ; —The Kaiser telegraphed to von K iiehlmann lr : s warmest appreciation of the faitful services (bunt LuxImrg lias rendered liis sovereign and his Fatherland. 'The Kaiser added that it was his intention to appoint (omit Ltixburg to another diplomatic post in recognition of his merits. FRENCH SHIRRING. Font SHIRS ST'NK. LONDON. September -0. The French shipping report states that arrivals for the past week total 9SO and sailings SUI. Sinking numbered two vessels of over 1600 tons, while two we Vo unsuccessfully attacked.