MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 December 1917, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[TER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] THE POPE’S EFFORT. rAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION] HOME, December 21. The Pope, in receiving the College of Cardinals, who presented Christmas greetings, pronounced an allocution regretting the tali lure of his last peace initiative, which had been prompted by the tears of mothers, widows, and orphans. and by his desire to. end the world’s calamity.

■His Holiness added that he had sowed tlie seed, hoping that it would fall on good soil and fruitify. He expressed great joy at the liberation of Jerusalem.

CHRISTMAS HOSPITALITY. LONDON December 23. Many citizens entertained the Dominion’s soldiers in London. Sir Thomas Mackenzie presided at the Now Zealand Y.M.C.A.’s dinner and entertainment at the Criterion Restaurant. Several hundred New Zealanders were present.

LABOUR CONFERENCE. PARIS, Dee. 26th. i A conference of the general confederation of Labour resolved that the peace formulas of President Wilson, and the Russian revolution, are those of the French working classes; recapitulating Maximalist peace terms, with the addition of freedom of straits and serfs, compulsory international arbitration and the formation of a League of Nations.

'Phe conference also demands the publication by belligerent Governments of the Russian peace terms as the only means of preventing a separate peace; also an early conference of workers of all countries.

A MYSTERIOUS WOMAN. GERMANY’S CHIEF SPY PAUSTRALIAN & N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION & REUTER.] NEW YORE, December 26. The. San Franeisci authorities are seeking a mysterious Madame TI., who is the central figure in the German spy system. It is believed that she was implicated in the scheme to blow up the Wrilaiul Canal also the anti-Tndia and other plots. , RUPPRECHT BREAKS DOWN.

BERNEi December 2ft. Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria is suffering from nervous breakdown, and lias been ordered a long rest. (Rnppreclit led the German armies in opposition to General ftyug's recent advance when TTindenburg line eras captured.) NEW GERMAN ATROCITY. INDIGNATION IN AMERICA. NEW YORK, Dec. 20th. There is the greatest indignation over the report of the first German atrocity against American troops when a sentry’s throat was cut after capture. The incident has intensified American j hatred of Prussianism. AMERICAN RAILWAYS. WASHINGTON, Dec. 2ft. ft is stated tha the Federal Government intends to operate all railroads at an early date next year. A PROPOSED -MEMORIAL. (’Received This Day at 10.15. a.:n.) LONDON, Dec. 27th. Labour organisations aim at raising £300.000 sterling by a shilling levy, for the purpose o! building national labour headquarters in London, as a memorial to workers who have fallen in the war.