MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 October 1917, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[PEK riu«H ASSOCIATION. —COPYHICHT.] GERMANY’S LOANS. A3ISTEEDAM, Oct. 21. A Berlin message states that the provisional total of the war is £625,000,000. The Reichstag Committee has been informed that further ilmitation of the bread ration is unccossary, a grain supply for the. whole, year being assured. BLEEDING BELGIUM. WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. Official advices show that Germany continues to bleed, Belgium financially of working men and materials. Incalculable economic waste is inflicted by working the men .secured in forced work on the German front in France. The German factories are conducting insidious '[recruiting uninterruptedly. The levied wa'r contributions total over two hunrded land eighty-e'igbt millions and fines add forty millions. United States aviators flying over tiie German lines, dropped numerous ■rty Loan posters, bearing most influential pictorial and statistical data. DEATH OF A NEW ZEALANDER NEWSPAPER AND ZEPPELINS. LONDON, October 21. During the air raid Lieutenant Solomon, of the Royal Flying Corps was killed. He ascended' from ail air station in an eastern county, and something went wrong with' the machine, which dashed to flu- earth. Lieutenant Solomon was a New Zealander who served in Mesopotamia The “Sunday Times” says that Londoners and all Englishmen! are chagrined that a fleet of Zeppelins was able to visit the capital and escape scot free. “Somebody blundered,” it says. “How otherwise can ho explained the strange shyness of searchlights and the consequent shyness of our vaunted barrage ?” OUR DAY FUND. Reuter’s Telegrams. (Received 111 is Day at noon.) LONDON, October 2.1. “Our Day” totals have reached a million sterling, irrespective of street collections. CTITN ESK R E BELL.Iv,N. SHANGHAI, Oct. 21. lluan’s Independent forces, reinforced from Kwangt.ung and Kwangsi, have captured Hongshniig, after a two day’s battle. Several Governors urge the Govei-r ment to agree to a compromise./ It is reported the British Minister also roeemniended a compromise. The Premier, Tuanghijui, refuses, and more northern troops have been despatched to Hunan.