MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,

Hokitika Guardian, 11 July 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS,

(PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.} THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC. LONDON, July SL Pneumonia following on influenza is causing many deaths. Eleven of one ship’s crew died. There wero ninety-six deaths at Birmingham during the Week. SHARE MARKET. LONDON, July 9th. Wnihi shares—buyers 375, sellers 38s. EXCHANGE OF PRISONERS.

AMSTERDAM, July 9. In the Reichstag, the War Minister stated that Germany had accepted conditions, whereby exchanged English, French and German war prisoners should not bo re-emploved.

BELGIAN DEPORTATIONS. WASHINGTON July 9. The Belgian Minister here has issued a statement to the effect thatdeportations and forced labour of Belgians by the Germans continues in the. military zones. The Belgians are compelled to work behind the German front under Allies fire.

SCHOLARSHIP SCHEME. T* ‘REUTER’S” TEI.EGRAM.j LONDON, July 9. Under the Overseas Sailor and Soldier Scholarship Sehemo in connection with the Rhodes Trust and the Ivirehener Fund, scholarships in Architecture to Lance-Corpl. A. IT. Brown, of the New Zealand Engineers and in agriculture to Captain E. J. Fawsett, New Zealand Infantry. »

THE METAL MARKET. LONDON. July 9th. In a sharp rise tin reached £344 10s a tpn. Other metals are unchanged. SALE OF WAR BONDS. LONDON, July 9th. The sales of war bonds last week amounted to £21,000,000.

QUESTION OF ALIENS

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LONDON, July 9

In the House of Lords, Lord Bcre.sford declared that lenient treatment of aliens was intensely irritating to the. public. He had received 3000 letters of protest in a fortnight. Uninterned male enemy subjects number 12,600, whereof 6000 are Germans, including some in every financial and commercial industrial -department of the States, and 57 still serving as British consuls. Lord Sandhurst replied that tho Government appreciated the popular anxiety, and had given the .opportunity to discuss the question in the House of Commons.

Lord Stanley, in reply to a question, said that enemy subjects had made 1,310 applications for patents since the outbreak of war. The Board of Trade has granted 944.

THE PRESS INDIGNANT

LONDON, July 9.

The newspapers are indignant- at the Ministry of Munitions failing to prevent the strike of over 10,000 wood workers at the London Aircraft factories as a protest against the dismissal of a shon steward.

NEW FOOD CONTROLLER

LONDON, July 9

The Press Bureau reports that J. N. Clynes (Labour member for Canchester) has been appointed Food Controller vice Lord Rhondda (deceased). »_ GIRLS FOR- HARVESTING. LONDON, July 9. Three thousand girls from the Training Colleges and Universities left London to nssist, in harvesting the flax crops. & THE LUXURY TAX. t* LONDON, July O' It, is believed that the postponement; of the discussion on the Luxury Tax until autumn indicates its final abandonment.

MILITARY RUMOURS. PARIS, -July 9,

Alilitary writers distrust the circumstantial rumours that General Ludendorff is abandoning the offensive in the west, in favour of a tremendous thrust on the Italian front.

PUT.VKET NURSES. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) LONDON, July 10th. Lord Plunket presided when Air. Massey opened the Babies ot Empire Motherernft Training Centro, under the auspices of the Overseas C'luh Patriotic League. Mr. Massey said thousands were saved through the work of Plunket nurses and public health organisation in New Zealand. Dr Trilby King, who is medical director of centre described the work.

AVIATION GIFT. (Received This Day at 1.5. p.m.) LONDON, July 10,

Sir Bassil Zaliaroff has given £25,000 to establish a professorship of aviation in London.

TO FIGHT WITH ALLIES

(Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) TOKIO, July 10

A confidential memorandum by the Czecho-Slovak Council, presented to Premier Kato, states the Council has ordered the transport of forces from the Russian front. They cannot accomplish the re-creation of Russia, therefore it is their clear duty to pursue ft strategical movement to Franco. Their desire, above all things, is to fight on the battlefields of France.

PEKING, July 10. A counter-revolution, ■ assisted by the Czecho-Slovaks, is spreading over Western Siberia. The Bolsheviks were driven eastward out of Irkutsk, many escaping into Mongolia, apparently unable to make a stand. Allied intervention is urgently necessary to stiffen the constitutional Russians.

Koltch'ak is proceeding to Japan to endeavour to enlist Japanese support.

SIBERIAN ARAIY.

(Received this dnv at 1.30 p.m.) ■LONDON, July 10. The Czecho-Slovak Army has reached the Volma at several points.