MISCELLANEOUS HEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 September 1918, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS HEMS

[PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT. J WAR LOANS INTEREST. NEW YORK, Sept, 20. Interest paid -to the. United States Government by the Allies as interest on war loans amounts approximately to 10,000,000 dollars monthly.

THE PEACE OFFER. AMERICAN COMMENT. NEW YORK. Sept. 19. The “New York .Times,” commenting on tlie Austrian peace offer says:— “Austria and Germany have themselves to blame if, when they confess defeat and propose peace, the proposal is peremptorily rejected as insincere. There will be no trading, no bargaining with criminal Powers which long planned the war, began it, and carried it on like outlaws. At the final peace conference the Central Powers will be forced to stand at the bar and accept the sentence imposed. The terms of that sentence have been repeatedly announced by President Wilson. This has been the “New York Times’ attitude always.”

Referring to a leading article cabled on September Kith, the paper says, “Evidently some cf our readers misunderstood our recent editorial. Wo regarded the Austrian proposal as a confession of defeat and offer of surrender. Considering, it so, wo believed the proposal might be considered on the. principles laid down by President Wilson.”

Mr. Daniels, Secretary of the Navy in a speech at Annapolis, said:—“The German war lords never understood President Wilson’s utterances until he declared last April for force without stint or limitation. Even then the German leaders scoffed at the ability of a democratic nation to put an army in the field able successfully to meet German divisions. The Germans can have peace whenever they are ready to accept the terms stated by President Wilson to Congress last January.

DEATH OF VISCOUNT MONTONO. NEW YORK. Sept. 20. The “New York Times” Washington correspondent says:—Despatches receive.l at the Japanese Embassy from Tukio says that Viscount Montono. Japanese Minister ot loreign Affaiis, died of stomach trouble.

HOSPITAL SHIP AT AUCKLAND. AUCKLAND, Sop. 2i. A hospital ship, with 543 sick and wounded men, berthed hero thi ß morning. There were fifteen cot cases. The whole of the medical boarding was accomplished during the last- two weeks of the voyage. Two days before the vessel’s arrival Gunner A. E. Kinsey, an Australian invalided soldier, disappeared. He had been suffering from Trench fever.

DISPUTE WITH NORWAY. NEW YORK, Sop. 20. The “New York Times ” Copenhagen correspondent reports that friendly relations between Norway and Finland are bqi»g endangered, because Finland wants to seize a part of northern'Norway, south of Varanger Fiord.

BRITISH RECRUITS. i • - 1 1 "■ WASHINGTON, September 21. The British Recruiting Mission lias obtained forty-six thousand voluntary recruit* for The British arjmies since June 19th. JAP CABINET RESIGNS. (Received this day at 1.5 p.m.l TOKIO, September 22. Cabinet has migned.

raising capital. Received, this dav at 8.45 a.m. LONDON, Sep. 22. The Treasury ha 3 sanctioned the National Bank of Australasia raising now capital in Britain, in connection with the amalgamation system.

THE DEATH ROLL. (Received This Dav at y.oO. a.m.] AMSTERDAM, Sept. 22. There were 382 killed and many badly injured in the explosion at Woollorsclorf ammunition factory in \ ienna. RE AR-ADMIR AL H ALSEY. MELBOURNE, This Day_ Rear-Admiral Lionel Halsey, formerly Captain of tho “New Zealand,” has been appointed Rear Admiral command iug the- Australian Navy.

GERMANY AND SPAIN. LONDON, Sept. 22. A message from San Sebastian states Germany does not accept the principle involved in the Spanish Note. In the course of a reply ,Germany says slic cannot make any distinction inker submarine policy. The German Ambassador subsequently stated privately that Germany would never consent to give up ships. One country more against us .would make very little,difference.