MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 8 March 1918, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[.PE MiCSS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT.] I CHINESE REPORTS. OF DISTURBING OCCURRENCES (United Service Telegrams.) LONDON March 6. The Daily Mail’s correspondent at Tientsin reports numerous disturbing reports are reaching Pekin" - regarding German activities and intrigues in the border provinces and the presence of hostile troops in northern Manchuria The military Governor of Kium has telegraphed urgently ' for reinforcements to oppose the troops who are marching on Takidi Heilung Chiang. Twenty thousand Red Guards and numerous Bolsheviks, are at ATadivo. stock, and are using the Chinese Eastern railway in Manchuria.

CALLING UP OF 1919 CLASS. PARIS March 6. Cabinet has approved of calling up the 1919 class. GERMAN plots revealed. PARIS March 6. Revelations in the Rosenberg case show that he and an accomplice, Bettelheim, supplied Italy with a list of the Austrian regiments engaged in the. Italian offensive and simultaneously supplied Germans with information of the French operations. Bettelheim is a society’ man and he was introduced to the ex-Khedive, by the German agent who granted the ex-Khedive several million francs annually during the war for acting as the Central Powers’ chief agent in the Mussulmen countries. Germany also promised the ex-Khedive a large smri if Britain failed to restore his revenues after the war.

A PROPOSED UNION. BUENOS AYRES, March 6. The American and Argentine Governments are arranging a conference of all the American Republics with a view to reaching a. basis of real union of the American nations. LONDON" March 6. In the House of Commons there was an animated debate on Admiral Jellicoe’s dismissal. Sir E. Carson protesting that the resignation was a National calamity, said he was not consulted as a member of the Cabinet. Mr Bonar Law explained that this was due to Sir E. Geddes’ advice. A SUICIDE. i AMSTERDAM March 6. The official explanation of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg’s death is that he suicided owing to failures in negotiatiations to rid him of a sentimental tii* for the purpose of enabling him to marry a German princess. The newspapers comment on the insincerity of the explanation. The theory of murder is generally believed. SINN FEINERS. LONDON March 6. Six hundred Sinn Feiners seized Kiltunagli, a village in Mayo which they used as a drilling centre. The inhabitants were compelled to use Rinn Fein passports, A GERMAN REPORT. AMSTERDAM. March 6. The “ Deutsche Tages Zeitung” publishes Germany’s latest lie that Sinn Feiners fired a shot at Mr Lloyd George, the' bullet missing by a hair’s breadth.