THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 24 February 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

(Australia-New Zealanc Cable Servicol TROUBLE EST IRELAND. London; Feb. 23. Twelve Defence of the Realm Act arrrests made in Dublin, Limerick and Galway include the following rebels, who were released after the Eastor rebellion: — Dcvrell Figgis, author; Dean O'Kally, Dublin Councillor; Goo. Nicholls, soldier; the Coroner of West 'Gaiway, and Patrick Thornton, exnational school-te-aelier. Tho prisoners have boon handed over ,to tho military and are confined in the Dublin barracks.

s 1 NUT CUTLETS?" (Rccou'od fills .Day fcvlo a.in.) London February "23. The r.'.v,* papois have inaugurated a campaign for ono 'Meatless day weekly, and have asked hotels and restaurants to* co-operate. A number of leading clubs have adopted the idea. AUSTRIA AND BAVARIA. The Daily Telegraph's Rome correspondent staces that Swiss telegrams report an intrigue of the court and politicians at Vienna and Munich, with the object of preparing for a union of Austria and Bavaria, iand so cause disaster to the Central Powers. The King cf Bavaria has had frequent interne ,V 3 with the Emperor Carl. 'When the Vatican was sounded' regarding this; eventuality promise of jsupj>ort was given, in order to save the Catholics of tne two empirss from Protestant influence!;.

CANADIAN PATH,IOTISM. (United Service). London, February 23. The Right Hon. .Mr. Borden, now in London, in the course of an interview said that Canada was throwing her.whole str.ength into the war. (Four hundred thousand Canadians already had crossed the Atlantic, and further recruiting was being considered. Over three hundred thousand men and women wore working in Canadian munition factories. Canada had raised, sixty million pounds sterling since the war, besides assisting Britain to the extent of fifty million sterling for munitions. The idea of national servico was increasingly impressing itself on Oanadans and everywhere. Leagues were being formed for 'co-ordinating and lUftjilisinig .tli'o [people's eiierjsie<Jf

A'NEW ZEALAND NAVY. (United Service). London, February 23. Tlie Slight Hon. W. JT. iMassey, interviewed, said he expected that the Imperial Conference would sit for several weeks. Personally, he opposed surrendering any shred of the dominions' self-governing powers to a proposed Imperial 'Parliament, which must be restricted to international affairs. He had become a strong'advocate of a locally-controlled iNew Zealand navy.

A BRAVE MARINER. Madrid, Feb. 23. An Austrian submarine detailed the Vittoria Eugenie, off Tarragona, and attempted to sieze British passengers that were voyaging on her. The captain protested as the steamer was in Spanish waters; he said he sooner would be sunk than yield. The submarine then withdrew. ('Received This Day 8.55 a.m.)

A REMARKABLE INTERVIEW. The New York editor of Pearsons Magazine has had a remarkable interview with Count Bernstorff. He said: "'My Goverment told me not to admit that the sinking of the s.s. Lusitania was illegal. President Wilson insisted that ifc was illegal; I left -White House (feeling that war was inevitable, but on returning I begged - President Wilson, as man to man, not to give up the position of arbiter between the warring nations" Count Bernstorff himself did not approve of the morality of the sinking of the Lusitania. The announce, merit of intense submarining is a blow to the ambasasdor who feels that liis work of years has been ruined thereby, nnd by Germany. Asked as to his plane the Countess interjected: "I want him chosen for Paris 1"

Count Bernstorff said it would be a superhuman task winning back (French friendship. The interviewer asked: "Why not give back the French provinces of Alsace and Lorraine?" Count Bernstorff replied: "The German people never will give them up; we are victorious; that is out of the question I"

Asked his views as to the religion of future humanity Count Bernstorff replied: "I know this world has no trouble about any other; frankly, I dislike churches and doubt whether their influence is for good; that man is a fool who denies liimself any good thing in this life!" Count Bernstorff decsribed .President Wilson as a rare combination of sensitive conscience and great strength. The interviewer adds that Count Bernstorff will tell the Kaiser the truth, but asks, "Will he be in time to prevent the irreparable?" THE GERMAN VIEW. The New York 'World's Washington correspondent says that the Government has been unofficially informed, r through a neutral, that 'Germany views with disapproval America's efforts to isolate Austria from Germany, and also regards the preparedness and plans of America as essentially warlike. 'Germany interprets them to mean that the United States merely are seeking an excuse for inviting a state of war.