MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

GERMAN STEAMER CAPTURED

BRITISH STATISTICS

lit I i- I CAPTURES IN 191 < t- ! LONDON February 21 d ; l> the Hous. of Commons, Mr J. 1 ,e MacPhersou, Under-Secretary to the o IVar Office introducing the Army Estih wates, said that the British captures in (J 917 i ncluded : t : Heavy howitzers 168 -’j Heavy guns 68 1 j Field guns r | Trench mortars 1055 f j Machine-guns 2842 i j The Labour Corps now numbered - 1 350,000. At least 2,000,000 tons of ? shipping would be saved in 1918. j During the year there had been conj veyed to various fronts: j Men nearly 7,500,000 ! Animlals 500,000 I Vehicles 200,000 J fttoros 9,500,000 tons

NEW ZEALAND CASUALTIES. WELLINGTON February 22. The following is a summary of the casualties in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force up to the 11th. inst: Other

Totals 1650 0 0,‘23: > » I DEATH OF LORD BE ASSET. I (Received This Day at 12.30. a.m.) LONDON February 21. j Obituary—Lord Brassey. i WAR. HONOURS. | (Received This Day at 12.30. a.m.) LONDON, February 23. King George, at Buckingham Palace conferred 290 decorations, including the Distinguished Service Order, to ’Colonels W. Cunningham and .1. Duigrm. New Zealanders.

AN INTERVIEW. (Received this day at 12.30 a.m.) LONDON February 24. Importance is attached to the Japanese Ambassador’s interview . with Hon A. J. Balfour.

AUSTRIA’S EMPEROR. BERNE February 24. The Emperor Charles has arrived at Gorman headquarters, fie conferred with the Kaiser, General Hindenburg and’ Ludendorff and Herr TTortling.

SOLDIER’S GRAVES. LONDON February 22. The meeting of the Imperial War Graves Commission approved the report of Lieut-Colonel Kenyon, making a recommendation for equality of. treatment for headstones of officers and men, the Government to hear the cost of the outlay and maintenance. It as stated that some, if not all, of the Dominions would decide on the headstones representing the Dominion rather than the individual.

AGAINST MAN POWER ACT. LONDON February 23. The President of the Scottish Miners' Conference has announced that •large majorities in various mining districts have ballotted against the Government man-power proposals.

DURHAM MINERS’ DECISION (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) LONDON, Feb. 24. The Durham miners have decided to support the Man Power Bill. It L proposed to supply 50,000 of class A men, to be selected by the miners’ organisations.

(■Received. This Dnv at '8.50.. a.m ' COPENHAGEN, Feh. 24. A British auxiliary cruiser captured the German steamer Dusseldorf, on the voyage from Coe (?) to Stettin. GERMANS IN ASIA MINOR. (Received r Fhis Day at 9.50. a.m.) ROME, Feh. 24.

The “Tribune” reports that'numerous Germans are leaving Constantinople for Asiatic Turkey. German hanks in Constantinople .are winding up. 'i

RAILROAD CONTROL. WASHINGTON. Fob. 22nd. The Senate debated the railroad Control Bill, and rejected an amendment providing for Government ownership. An economic agreement between America and Spain has been signed at Madrid by which General Pershing lias obtained mules, blankets and supplies from Spain in return for oil and other commodities from America.

CONTROL OF RAILWAY'S. ■'Received This Day at. 9.50 a.m.*, WASHINGTO, Feb. 24. The Senate passed the Railroads Control Bill, giving President Wilson absolute iiower to operate the nation’s railroads.

AUSTRALIANS’ COMPLAINTS Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, Feh. 24,

Australian wpundeds, repatriated from Turkey, endorse the accounts of the cruelty of the Turks to prisoners of war. They flatly contradict the statement that the Turk is a clean lighter. Tim usual punishment, for a petty (rime is tn tie the prisoner head downwards, and the feet are lashed with raw-hide whips. The treatment in Austria where the Australians stayed for some weeks, was heavier, compared with Turkey. One returned man d eel ami flic Germans in Turkey were the prisoners only friends, probably because the Turks hate the Germans, and* vice versa. Tlu> Germans regard whites as a tie between themselves and the Fatherland.

FOOD IMPORTS

Received, this day at 8.45 a.m.

LONDON February 24

Tlie % “Observer” states the War Cabinet Ilia si decided that food imports shall now have priority over all other war demands in the allocation of shipping 1

A "PRINCELY HEAD

Received, this day at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, Feb. 24. The Prince of Wales has accepted the presidency of the National Rifle Association.

CHANGING THE MAP.

(Received This IJav at 11.25. a.m.) PARIS February 24.

The “Matin” states the so-called etnographie map published in Berne in 1917 by German propagandists shows the deliminatiqn of (lie Ukrainian and Polish frontiers, as defined at Brest Litovsk, shows the. western frontier given to Russia, would run by; Pskoff and Kbarkoff, emerging into that which for mcrly was the easterly limit of greater Poland, while Petrograd is shown as belonging to Finland, thus driving Russia hack to the -Muscovite Steppes.

Officers. ranks. Killed .. ass 6,896 Died of wounds .... .. 137 2,681 Died, cause unknov •n . 4 753 Died of disease. .. 19 753 Drowned .. 10 39 IVIissini" 9 158 Prisoners of war .. 5 111 Wounded ... 1140 27,891