MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 18 June 1918, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

[run PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.] JAPANESE Aim' TOKTO June To. Japan wifi increase her army to twenty five corps. A correspondent adds that the Entente Government are urging the Japanese fer intervention in Russia. At a Council meeting held on this subject at which It he Allied represent/a t: vos were .oresent, Jules d’Estree, Belgian Minister to Potrograd, who escaped from Russia said there were 20,000 armed German war prisoners in Siberia on the transSiberian railway which is now the only communication with the outside world. This could easily be cut bv the German prisoners. I saw armed Germans at every staion ostensibly allied with (he Bolsheviks.

JAPAN’S ATTITUDE. TOKIO, June 15. Field Marshal Yamugatu’s Tokio, and the reassembling of the High Military Conference have revived public interest in the question of Japanese intervention in <tho war. A RUMOUR. ROME June 15. A rumour is current at be Vatican that the Nobel Peace Prize will bo awarded the Pope.

MUNITIONS EXPLOSIONS. LONDON, June 10. A Paris message reports that a munition factory at Mainz was partially destroyed by an explosion. There-are many victims and considerable 1 damage was wrought. memorial services. CHRISTIANIA, June 10. The seamen’s organisations held memorial services over 970 Norwegian sailors who have been killed during the war.

SEIZING SHIPS. WASHINGTON, June 15. Peru's action in seizing the German ships, may be followed by Chili, which 1 has seventy-five Germans ships in her ports. DANISH SHIPPING. NEW YORK, June 10. The “New York World’s” Washington correspondent learns that- America is negotiating with Denmark with the object of securing the Danish Merchant Marine, consisting of 500,000 tons of shipping. A Danish mission to the United State'; has been consulting the War Trade Board for several days. Denmark resents the enforced idleness of her merchantmen. It is believed that the Germans have, already been consulted regarding the terms she will allow Den mark to make with the United States.

A LIEUT ..-GENERAL. (Received This Dav, at 12.10. a.m.) LONDON, June 17. The. newspapers arc publising photographs of the military record of Monash as the. first civilian to rise, to the rank of Lieut. General. They highly approve of the precedent. WOUNDED AGAIN. (Received This Day, at 12.10. n.m.) LONDON, June 17th. L. Fre.vberg, of Wellington has been wounded for the Bth time. AERODROME BURNT. AMSTERDAM June 17. Nivelles aerodrome, iu Belgium, has been burned, ineluding fifteen Gothas, just from Germany. Two German noncoms have been arrested.