MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 January 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

THE CONVOY SYSTEM. Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, Jan. G. Sir Chiozza Money, in an interview in the “Pall Mall Gazette,” said the convoy system was proving a magnificent success, in circumventing the submarines. Of 176 homeward convoys comprising 2,430 ships, with 17J million toils of. cargo, the losses were only 1$ per cent. , FRANCE’S WHEAT. (Received This Day at 9.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 0. Advice from France state Government have requisitioned the entire wheat crop and have established bread rations of seven ounces daily. It is explained that sacrifice is necessary In order to releeas ships for the transport of American troops. CONCENTRATION IN FLANDERS AMSTERDAM, Jan. 6. Twenty-two Belgian civilians were executed at Ghent on the 20th December for alleged espionage.. All lillages in the north-east of Flanders are packed with Gorman soldiers, who are feverishly constructing fortifications. RUSSIAN WHEAT. AMSTERDAM, Jan. 6. Heads of the Hungarian War and Producers’ Office have left for Berlin to discuss the division of Russian wheat stocks. shipping CHARTERS. WASHINGTON, Jan. G. Advices from Tokio states that the government have notified the Entente that Japan temporarily prohibits the ■ sales and charters of Japanese vessels : to foreigners, because of the scarcity of ships. 1