MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Alr STRATEGY. LONDON April 15Lord Rothmere. has anounccd the formation of a Strategic Council. Members are selected for their knowledge of aerial war fare and capacity to envisage the problems of the coming months, and years.

A GOOD SIGN.

LONDON. April 15. The Stock Exchange is more cheerful. Consols are quoted at CSO.

OBITUARY. NEW YORK, April .15, Senator Stone is dead.

ZEPPELIN SHED FIRI'

A BIG DISASTER

(Received This Pn< r at lO'n. a. i.; BERNE, April 1(5,

v The fire destroyed a Zeppelin factory which was only lately transformed irrto !> Gotha factory. The fire also destroyed the Zeppelin sheds, stores and |:.ffilces, twto m'odel Zeppelins and la number of giant aeroplanes. grea t quantities of benzine.and timber. I'll e fire broke out on Saturday and continued till gmidav. Explosions sent uo huge columns <>l flame, and hurled debris over Friedteriehshafen, destroying the hoimes. The inhabitants were panic stricliefl 1 . and many fled to the neighhtnvrisig towns. Nearly 40 workshops ajai burnt. There are 140 dead and 200 injuo'cc l .

HUN MOVES LN SPAIN

This Day at 8.50. a.m * AVASHINGTON. April 16.

Germany is insiduously eiideavourict/i to allieniate Spanish sympathy Iron i the Allies. Semi-official advices state that G> i - many ip striving by promises ais 1 threats, to cut off the supplies whi< 1 i Spain promised to send to Americni troops on the West Front. -1 powerful undercurrent of German influence in Spain, is reflected in the subsidiser! newspapers, which declare that Spnui prefers civil war Tather than w.t' against the Germans. A USTRALIA ’S PR E M TER. (Received This Day at 9.1 5 a.m.) NEW YORK. April 1(5. The. New York “Times” announci s Liiat Mr William Hughes, the Aust-ru - ian Premier arrives in America shortly' to urge Mr Wilson to bring large stores of Australian wheat to America and 1 'nis relieve the scarcity in America. Mr Hughes will suggest that Australian wheat be taken over at a dollar per bushel.