MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 4 March 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

! GENERAL SMUTS, i LONDON, March 2. General Smuts has returned to Lon don. J SATISFACTORY RATIONING Received, th.s day at 8.45 a.m. ; LONDON .March 3. The first week’s experiences of rationing is more satisfactory than queues but disclosed the meed of amending the details, specially fis regards meat. The [majority of families kept a week’s 1 coupons for a Sunday’s joint thus creating a weekend rush wherewith the butchers coclcl not cope, and there was j some queues on Sunday. j ESPIONAGE trtal. j MANY REVELATIONS. • 'Received. This Da\ at 'LdQ. a.m.' j PARIS March 3 j The espionage case revealed a veritf able hornets nest- of -financial schemers | in Switorland working in Germany’s interests. The chief operator is an Austrian banker Rosenberg wTio lived in Paris till the war and then took •refuge in Zurich, and engaged a large staff and spies for whose payment Erzberger, a' German deputy deposited a large sum. Erzberger and 8010 stayed at the same hotel at Zurich in 1915. Evidence was obtained of the visits of agents, who frequently visited Zurich, and, on returning paid Swiss cheques into Paris banks'.

CAPTURE OF HiXtCHIN HARU 'Received. This Dav at 8.50. n.ml COPENHAGEN March 3. The raider AYolf Miatchin Maru, on 2Clh, Septembef.-. Foii'yteen of the crew and two Indian passesgers were killed in tbe light. The Wolf sank Hitachi n Marti im 7th November. RHODES SCHOLARS HIPS. (Reuter’s Telegram.; LONDON March 3. Thirteen overseas sailors and soldiers Scholarships donated by Rhodes Trustees and Kitchener Memorial Fund, tenable at various universities. They include second Lieutenant C. Eorsdiok, of the New Zealand Machine Gun Corps tenable at the Imperial College. Cap-, tain N. S. Johnston of the New Zealand .Rifle Brigade tenable at Oxford

A MKRICAN T MR E AT. (Received This Day at 9.50. a.m.) WASHINGTON March 3. A referendum of Chamber of Commerce of United States overwhelmingly favours a resolution warning. German businessmen that an economic combination will be formed agaipst them after the war, unless the danger of excessive armaments is removed by making the German government a responsible instrument controlled by the people. ELECTION I'' 1G URES. 1 OTTAW.V March 3. An analysis of the election figures show 1,020,01)0 voted in support of Sir William Borden and three-quarters of a million supported the opposition. There were 135 candidates who lost their nomination deposits.

BIG STRIKE. • Received. This Dav at 8.50. a.m.) BUENOS AYRES March 3. There were serious armed conflicts between railway strikers and troops, two strikers being killed and many wounded. SUGGESTION TO WATT. NEW YORK, March 3. The United Press Hague correspondent has learned authoritiycly that German liberals and Socialists are trying to convince General Ludendorff to postpone the West front offensive, until Mr. Wilson’s answer to Herr Tlertling shows whether it is necessary.