MISCELLANEOUS- NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 7 August 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS- NEWS.

NO PEACE! MOVE. (Received Yesterday at 11.10. p.m.) LONDON, Aug. 5 | In tho House of Commons, replying to Mr Lee Smith, Hon.. A. J. Half j'»r stated that nobody, authorised to act on behalf of any enemy Power, had recently made peace proposals. Government had received no communh i:ion from the Allies that such proposals were submitted to them. MALVY ACQUITTED. (Received This Day at 10.15. a.-ft.» PARIS, August G. Mftlvy has been acquitted on tho trea

son charge. AIR RAID FAILURE. (Received This Dav at 10.15. n.m 1 LONDON, August G. The Press Bureau reports hostile airships approached the East Anglian coast at 9.80. a.m. on Monday night.

A LABOURITES' VIEW. (Received This Day nt 10.15. a.m.) LONDON, August 6. Mr Barnes speaking at Cambridge, fiaid he would include Germany in tho I League of Nations, because including her meant the revision of old dangers. He favoured tho Entente taking tho initiative and suggested an inter-Allied Hague Conference, including not only representatives of Government’s, hut of peoples. This conference might revise the peace aims, and he was sure it would never include any country except one, in actual warfare against the Allies. Such a conference would have a . great moral effect in Allied countries j Jand might induce bjhe Germans to j consider their world positions and relation* with their present task masters. Mr Barnes also suggested tho creation of a commission to investigate territorial adjustment, and limitation of armaments and other matters.

CONDITIONS IN TURKEY. (Received This Dav at 12.25. <’ • COPENHAGEN, August G

The “Daily Mail” Zurich correspondent. reports a highly placed neutral from Constantinople, states the population bitterly hate the Germans. None doubts the genuineness of Turkey's cry for peace, but she is so completely under Germany’s domination that a separate peace is unthinkable. Britain’s good Government of Mesopotamia, and the establishment of free peasant markets in Baghdad, have increased the sympathy towards the British. Trie Turkish Army has ceased to have serious fighting value. Soldiers are sharing in the prevailing misery. There are wholesale desertions.

CANADA’S POPULATION. OTTAWA. Aug. G

Returns of man-power and womanpower in Canada show there are 4,800,000 persons over sixteen years of age. Tho total population of tho Dominion, exclusive of soldiers overseas is eight and a quarter millions.

NEW ZEALANDERS HONOURED (Received Tl’iv n av at 11.25. a.m.j LONDON, August G. Twenty New Zealand have been awarded the Military Medal.