THE WAR

Levin Daily Chronicle, 28 June 1917, Page 3

THE WAR

(Austral.a-New Zealand. Cable Service) GERMAN PROPAGANDA. Park, June 27. Tho newspaper Lc Alatin says that tlio Germans are spending £80,000 a month in Spain on propagandist work. The total expenditure in this direction throughout the world is esti.nired at sixteen million pounds sterling per annum. GERMANY AND NORWAY. Copenhagen, June 27. '! ho newspaper Morghen Bladet .states that Von Rautenels was sent to 'Norway by the German Foreign Cilice with many trunks, filled with explosives, officially sealed and addressed to the Gorman Legation at Christiania.. These traversed the 'Nor- j wegian Customs Office unopened. Ilie 'Norwegian Government informed' Germany of the discovery at the Legation j I and invited the latter to send repreI sentatives to attend at the opening | of the trunks, but none appeared. AMERICA AND THE WAR. "Washington, June 27. The United States has loaned France fifteen million and Britain ten million pounds .sterling. It is announced that the nrxt Liberty Loan will be started about September. GERMANY AND SUBMARINES. (United Service). London, June 27. The German Admiralty asserts that the German submarine fleet steadily I increases in strength. ' Now boats, that have been built outnumber the losses. MAKING GOOD THE LOSSES. (Renter Service.) The Hague, June 27. Germany ha 6 agreed to cede a nnumber of German ships now in the Dutch East Indies, of a value equivalent to seven vessels torpedoed by the latter between May 23rd and 27th. Germany also pays compensation for the crews los with the ships. THE SOCIALISTS' CONFERENCE. London, June 27. The British National Socialist Party declined the invitation of the Workmen's and Soldiers' Party of Russia to attend the international conferonce on the ground that it will be attended by enemy Socialists who supported attacks on Belgium, France, Serbia and Russia, and still justify '{Jerman atrocities. The conference cannot serve the cause of peace or Socialism while German armies still are in possession of invaded territory ies. (A.-N.Z, and Renter Service). London, June 27. •Sir Douglas Hnig reports: |Our artillery has thoroughly prevented tho development of counter-attacks norhwestward of Fontaine les Orfoise/les. We successfully raided trenches westward of Oppy. Our fire stopped a raid south-westward of Libinie.