GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 162, 15 December 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

' v.- .! • . gi; MARINE WAR RISKS. £ '■) AN IMPORTANT PROVISO. London, December 13. r JDlte agreement issued by Lloyds UnHAwriters' Association provides for the jftdusion of pillage risks and petty jenefts in port, which should be covered l»y 'merchants separately. The subject I I* important, as the result of the congestion at many British and foreign ports. BREAKING PAROLE. A CLEJER SCHEME FRUSTRATED. London, December 13. The gentries superintending the departure, at Gravesend, of deported Germans over the military age, rolled a ti&eking-case oyer and over along the deck of the ferry-boat, and the lid was .Mitly forced open. The sailors shout- ! pd,, "There's a man in the box." The ppcupant, Otto Kohcn, was released, biter a. fifteen-hours' journey. He told fi* authorities that he was a German j lieutenant. He was recently in America, but,returned shortly before th? war, | land later was arrested and interned. {There are indications that his escape ■ plotted at the aliens' canteen at Dorehester. The packing-case was addressed to Rotterdam. Lieutenant Walter Brodie, of the Highland Light Infantry, has received 1 Bl£ Victoria Cross ior conspicuous gal- f fitntry at Becelaere in ousting the < fenemy from a portion of our trenches. 1 He bayonetted several, thereby reliev- < ing a dangerous situation and, as the .result of his promptitude, 80 were killed and 51 taken prisoners. ; LOWER WAR RISKS. ' Times and Sydney Sun Services. - Received 14,6.30 p.m. {■: London, December 14. Underwriters are quoting lower than floTernment rates, especially for Cape god Australasian freights. ' i