THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 7 June 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

(Auatralta-Neu Zealand Cable Service (Received This Day 9.30 a.m.) ARMY POST OFFICE. London, June <i. It has been stated in the House of Commons that the Army Post Office employs over 4000 men in despatch ing weekly 9000 'bags of parcels, and 40,000 bage of letters containing abor. .900,000 pnafcels. Over ten mi' ! parcels are being received weekly ;• -d eight million letter*. THE GERMAN 1 CELANCELLCR Amsterdam, June 6. The Staatsburgier Zeitung says that -the Kaiser lisis sent a' private letter to three chiefs oif the antiJEJollweg ooalition forbidtlng (continuance of the agitation against the Chancellor. The Kaiser considers the agiitation an attempt to oulrtail tho Crown's personal prerogative, and that this view applies also to any attempt to form opinion about the Chancellor's politic? at a time when the Kaiser himself apptrvesi of thctee politics. German newspapers state that ODr iHollwegg visiited IBrusSielsi and .djlscai'ssed with "General 'Falkenhausen the question of administrative partition of Belgium. Practically levol7 JMgian offica'al declined to- cot-operate with Germany in a scheme to form FlemWalloon sections. -Hollweg and Falkenhausen have sought to find an alternative, but it is expected that ( the Belgians' patriotism will force apostponement <of (tlio partition

MR HENDERSON IN RUSSIA. Petrograd, Juine 6. Mr Henderson, M.P., attended a of Ith© Russian Ctoreijnm/ent jand irepoirted lon the effect of State intervention in British Commerce and industry l , and showed that useful results had lieen obtained in England by a wise and systematic State intervention. iRiUSSIEAIN AMAZON®. ' A woman named Britomart, who ertftered the ranks as a man, and who ■won St. Geerge'a Cross, is raising a figjhlfciing regiment of women to proceed immedliately to the front. General Rodfcianko lias approved of the Bcheme which aims at shaming Russian men into a more active frame of mind. UNSOCIABLE SOCIALISTS. Zurich, June 6. The international section of the German minority of Socialists refuse to attend' the Stockholm conference. Comrade Meihring, the leader, explains to the Russians that he refuses >to attend the same conference as Scheddmann. (Received Thia Day 10.50 a.m.) VICTORIAN BUTTER. 'Melbourne, This Day. The price of butter has been fixed at Is Sd for first grade, second Is 4d, third Is 24.

MBS PANKHURST. London, June 6. (Mrs Pankhurst is going to Russia, trii'i the Government's permission. THE TRUTH ABOUT RUSSIA. Petrograd, June 6. Mr Kerensky has returned. He intended to Minsk, (Riga land Kronstadt," ibut the crisis caused by the retirement of Mr KonovalofF lias occasioned economic and financial dit-. "fi'cit'tiels which necessitate his immediate return. The people desire peace almost at any price. When

Kerenci%i urges a vigorous offensive tiie Socialists reply that to attarik •Germany when she is on the evo of a revolution would serve tlio interests of Kaisoictom. Mr Kerensky's absence showed that the fato of 'Russia depended upon hiui alone. Berne, Juno 6. Tho Germans have repatriated 500 Russians from Switzerland through Germany. Germany had become an ardent supporter of the "P!rovis)ional Government which now is said to bo desirous of crushing Kaiserdom. Germany lias notified that she will convey no more prisoners to Russia. DENMARK IN STRAITS Copenhagen, June 6. ' /. cu?i-mission of the most prominent ;> pi. -oiitntivcs of [Danish trade and i "l'isin.V' is visiting foreign countries to negotiate with the belligerents 'mp pcrlant regarding conditions of life : u IVnmark. Denmark is said to ho on tlu> verge of starvation, and to be .differing ms much hardship as it slie had been a belligerent.

AN ARCTIC EXPEDITION. New York, June 6. A despatch from Mr 'McMillan, lender of the Crocker Land Party, states that they are safe. The -party has discovered six new Arctic islands. GERMAN AEROPLANES DESTROYED. London, June 6. In an air raid four German aeroplanes were destroyed. U.S.A. VESSEL SINKS A SUBMARINE. 'Washington, June 6. The State Department i's officially adv."sod that an American armed merchant mo 11 sunk 'i submarine. I'hev fought for ninety minutes, and the twenty-fifth shot sank the submarine. The submarine's stern rose out of the water and then she sank. The Navy Department is convinced that a submarine has been bagged. The submarine flew no flag.