CABLE BREVITIES.

Hokitika Guardian, 29 January 1918, Page 3

CABLE BREVITIES.

A TERRIBLE tale, I LONDON, Jan. 13- ! Mrs Spies and her granddaughter, i Aliss Lipke, from Toowoomba (Queensland) who had been on a holiday in Germany in 1914, and have now been repatriated, tell a terrible story. They : were detained in Hamburg, and had to | report to the police daily, and were twice fined for failing in this. They j bnri to be indoors at 8 o’clock in the | evening, and were not permitted to ! S peak English, and were continuously I insulted. Their daily diet was a vile j synthetic codec, two slices of bread, j suede turnips and potatoes. They were ! allowed 21b of bread and 30 grammes iof mnrgerine a wehk Butter cost ! 30s and bam 10s a pound. Latterly ; | dothes and boots could not be bought, ! and paper manufactures were substituted. They instanced how a woman paid •10s for a bed-cover, which at the first washing was reduced to pulp. Serious | food riots were frequent, and shops ' were smashed. They saw the machinegunning of women, many dead being strewn in the streets. Sickness was general.

i MAN POWER. i j LONDON January 12. | Lister Liberal-Unionists ljavt passed r, i resolution urging the Government to exj tend conscription to Ireland and so j ensure equality of sacrifice and service. I In the debate on man-power the ! Ereneli Chamber of Deputies, M. May- | Prsa> an international socialist remarkj ~(l that Australia had seized the j German colonies, and declared that sue | was going to keen them Afterwards 1 she rejected conscription. “When one !.acquires,” said M. Alaveras, “one must ! pay.” j i'll his speech at the American lunch. | eon Mr Winston Churchill (Minister 'of Munitions) said that the reception | of Mr Llovd George and Dr A ilson >< i speeches meant that an unbridged abyss I still senarated Prussian hopes and amhi- ! tions and sober .British and American I opinion. lie emphasised the urgency of fihod econlomy and rationing. Every ton of food saved meant a ton of shells fired. . Owing to the shortage of ships ho had had to reduce, by 100,000 tons the imports of shell steel, for which the manufactured parts were ready and also fuses, guns, and gunners. AMERICAN NEWSLONDON January 13. The ex-Mayor of New York (Mr Mitchell has received a major’s commission in the United States Aviation Corps. America proposes to export 90,000,000 bushels of wheat to meet th-> the shortage of the Allies and is most rigidlv limiting home consumption.

A WORLD COURT. NEW YORK, January .13 A meeting of the United States Bar Association outlined the. plans for a World Court after the war based on the contracting parties agreeing to submit disputes to the international court and not to declare war or begin h >*"

tilities until the court has considered the dispute. The court will use economic or military strength to enforce

its rulings. Many European statesmen have approved of. the scheme. | Sir F. E. Smith (British Attorncv--1 general) was tumultuously applauded 1 after his speech to the United States

Bar Association. “Britain,” he said, j “has not deserted an ally since the days 1 of the Norman conquest. This war I will go through to the finish.”

RETURNED GERMANS. LONDON January 15. It is reported that 835 Germans including Captain von Muller of the Linden a son of Admiral von Tirpitz and commandant of the Bluoher have arrived in Holland from England. An Amsterdam' message says that in order to mark their disgust at the Fatherland party forbidding disabled men to speak at a recent meeting and subsequently heating them, 1300 soldiers have returned their Iron Cross decoration to the War Ministry.

THE YARMOUTH ATTACK. LONDON January 16

The bombardment of Yarmouth lasted six minutes. It is wonderful thcie u.is so small a loss of life and damage to property. Hie enemy quickly found the range and got the shell home upon the buildings, but most of the shells j}ew high and s trunk tho roofs and op pm* rooms. The smallness of the lost of life was due to few people being in trie bedrooms there being a general exodus to the cellars. None wore killed, or wounded in tho. streets which were quite empty. An aged couple who were in bed were killed by the fall of the rool. The two others killed were a sailor on a ship in the harbour and n man who was in an upper room when a shell burst. There were many narrow escapes especially by children.