MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 26 February 1919, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

fAUSTRALIAN <fc S.Z. CABLE' ASSOCIATION] KIEL CANAL INCIDENT. PARIS, Feb. 24. A French destroyer captured two Gorman merchantmen in the Baltic r-'ia, and wished to take them through the-Kiel Canal, but tho German authority:; shut the gates at Brunsleuttcl. The destroyer’s captain then used force, and the Germans submitted.

BRITISH WAR LOSSES. LONDON,, Feb. 124. The revised figures of the Empire’s war losses are :

Military Losses Killed or presumed dead, 835,743; wounded, 2,0-1 1 ,211. Naval Losses22,2Bl dead; , and 4894 wounded.

Air Force, (total casualties); 7589

FINANCE MEASURES

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(Received this day at 10.15 u.m.) LONDON, Feb. 24

The Press Bureau reports the Treasury states it is impossible to dispense altogether with control of capital issues, but it is necessary to recousider the principles governing the sanctioning, in order to avoid placing unnecessary obstacles in the way of providing capital for the speedy restoration of commerce and industry. In view, however of the number of fresh issues, it is expected that new regulations will be made prohibiting their issues, except under Treasury license, and the Capital Issues Committee has been reconstructed with new terms of reference.

GREAT ALLIES’ MEETING

CONSIDERATION OF TREATY

(Received this day at 10.15 a.in.) LONDON, Feb, 24

A Bureau communique from Paris states a meeting of representatives of the Great Powers at which Marshal Focli was present referred the Albanian claims to the Greek Affairs Committee and also considered information and proposals from the Inter-Allied Commission at Warsaw. The Reparation Commission decided to hasten the work of the sub-commit-tee entrusted with the valuation of damage and means of payment. Mr Hughes was chosen President of the third sub-committee appointed to study measures of control and gaurantees. YPRES FUTURE. ROTTERDAM, Feb. 25. The Burgomaster of Ypres denies that -Ypres will be rebuilt on n new site.-. He says it will arise again from the ruins.