FROM ALL SOURCES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 72, 14 August 1914, Page 5

FROM ALL SOURCES

PRINCE 01' WALES FUND. London, August 12. The Prince of Wales fund has reached £750,000. London, August 12. The sentries ; on a canal bridge at Liverpool shot dead a pedlar who did not answer their challenge. An Austrian steamer, loaded with barley, has been captured and taken to Plymouth. A modified censorship has been established over the telephone system of Great Britain. Those using a foreign language are immediately cut off. The' Bank of England to-d;y received gold to thc-value of £450,000.' Colombo, August 12. The Italian Consul, who is a German, has been found shot. Tt is believed to be a ease of suicide. Many German merchant vessels have been captured and brought to eastern ports. Stockholm, August 12. Six thousand expelled Russians have arrived from Germany. They declare that they suffered barbarous treatment. London, August 12. Laurenso, the music-hall artist, and five others have been ordered to l>e deported. St. Petersburg August 12. General Dimitrieff, of the Bulgarian General Staff, has arrived at PeterhofT, and been appointed general of a division. Stockholm, August 12. The Reichstag unanimously adopted a credit of fifty million kroner to defend Sweden's neutrality. : London, August 15. Colonel Whitaker, a defendant in the canteen case, has volunteered for active service, and has asked to be released from prison for that purpose.