GENERAL ITEMS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 69, 11 August 1914, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

INDIAN* IJOYALTY. Delhi, August 9. Am ■nprccedentedlv large represeatatl¥e meeting at Karachi passed a resolutios expressing ita readiness to make all sacrifices to preserve the integrity of the Empire. The flags of the Triple Entente were unfurled with prolonged cheering for the King and Emperor. Simla reports that all the native rulers tender their resources and several offer their services. AMERICA'S MEDIATION. I OFFER CLADLV RKCETVED IN | ROME. I „ Rome, August 9. President Wilson's offer of mediftti«B j has produced an excellent effect. Italv | WI " support the proposal.

T . - ... London, August 9. It w believed thai the steamer Kocnigin Luwe had been engage! in iminelayin- for several days before war was , declared. Lord Kitchener's appeal for Army recruits lias been generously responded 10. Mr Lloyd George, in the House of Commons, said the queue ar, the Bank of England has vanished, and £5,600,000 -as been paid in on foreign accounts. Xelegrams from all parts of the countrv Showed no sign of the hoard'.,<r 0 f gold. Jrac, was assuming norma! conditions. rhe Archbishop of Ginterbnrv h.i« offered Lambeth Palace, and Ui, Duke, of .Sutherland and many notsiVes have ottered their country houses, as hospitals The Government war insurance rate lus been iedu<ed to four guineas. The Daily Chronicle correspondent a ! Milan savs that Monterieg~o has de clared war on Austria. The Queen has approved the appeal ' to the Empire for Queen Mary's naval hospital. Athens. \;icnisl 9. TTie Frenc!, staff at Ded-agafcb report a great concentration of Turkish troops at Dedeagatch and Ferejik, Sofia, Angus; 9. General DimitrifT. now Minister fit St. Petersburg, has volunteered for ser Tiee with Russia. The King has promised (< do its utmost to keep neutral. Pretoria., August 0, The Premier Diamond Mine has been dosed. Steps hare been taken to alle-

Ti*te distress. The repatriation of 16,000 natives presents a difficulty. London, August 9. Mr Arthur Huntington, president of the American Geographical Society, ami his wife, a well-known autJhoress, were arrested at Nuremburg as spies. Mr Huntington was stripped naked and his wife insulted. Belgrade, August 8. ®he German Ministers at Belgrade *ad NWil hare departed. Capetown, August 9. The sale of arms is prohibited within the Union. German reservists must report daily. large numbers have informally enrolled in the South African contingent. The public is contributing to the fund, and the back-veldt Dutch are sympathetic. * 1 Constantinople, August 9. - The steamer Cranforth struck a mine, and has been beached at Buyukdere. Antwerp, August 9. A mine destroyed the oil-tank elhip San Wilfred at Cuxhaven. Dresden, August 0. The American Ambassador at Berlin appeals for British money t J help British subjects under his care. St. Petersburg, August 0. At the conclusion of its "business ths passed a resolution of loyalty to tli ■ zar and assurance that the whole of !■ ,ilard would sacrifice everything t» drive back the insolent enemy. Eoumania is taking steps to eu*rd her frontier. I London, August J. The Germans at Lome did not resist the surrender of South Togol.nd to 85 mile* from the coast.