ON THE SEA.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 24 August 1917, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

GERMAN RAIDER SUNK. BY BRITISH WARSHIP. Received 11.10, NEW YORK 7 August 23. The New YorE World States that the British steamer Harrington Head had reported thdt a British warship had sunk the German raider Sea Adler in the Atlantic, a thousand miles from this port. The Se a Adler went down fighting, and part of tne crew were lost ..at their posts. The war ship summonecT the Harrington Head also the British steamer Edith Cavell to take aboard the rescued Germans. The Harrington Head is tibw homeard bound, and is expected to have thirteen Germans aboard. AUSTRIAN AFFAIRS. STRONG DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT IN HUNGARY. % Received 9.15. WASHINGTON, August 23. The World’s Stockholm correspondent says the appointment of Wekerle as Hungarian Premier is an important step towards Hungarian independence. / King Karl is in complete harmony with the movement for a great Democratic national Hungary. A strong movement is on foot to establish a Hungarian Ministry of War, which will be independent of Vienna.

STRIKES IN MUNITION FACTORY. Received 9.1'. BEENE, August 23. The employees of the Panz Company the largest muntion factory in Budapest, have struck for •• higher wages and better food facilities. Two thousand miners have struck on similar grounds. STOCKHOLM CONFERENCE. ; STATEMENT BY KERENSKY. . I * : Received 9.20. Kerensky, in a statement to the organ of the Soldiers and Workmen’s Committee, says the Provisional Government considers their adhesion to treaties made with Great Briiatn and France a question of conscience and honour, in view of the Government’s attitude to the Stockholm Conference. The latter’s decisions cannot modify its policy concerning treaties. The Conference is a party affair, not a Government one. At the same time the Government aims at facilitating the holding of the Conference, with the Socialist parties’ participation. EXCLUSION OF PACIFISTS LONDON, August 22 The refusal of the Conference of the Labour Parly to include delegates exclusively representing the Independent Labour Party, British Socialists and Fabians practically excluded pacifists from the Stockholm Conference. The Conference insisted that representatives should not go to Stockholm in company with emissaries exclusively chosen bv Socialist so ;ie ties. , A PACIFIST OBJECTOR. SENTENCED TO TWO YEARS’ , , HARD , Received 9.15. , LONDON, August 23. J ohn P. F. Fletcher, formerly a pacifist of Australia, and New Zealand, has been sentenced to two years’ hard labour for refusing to handle a rifle.