GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 August 1915, Page 2

GENERAL ITEMS.

BRITISH FINANCIAL SUPREMACY: By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Copenhagen, August 8. The German newspapers are discussing how to get riil of British financial supremacy. Tlie suggestion of a uni-m with New York is opposed for fear that the German mark will have to play second fiddle to the American dollar, it is suggested (hat a tax he. placed 011 all guods invoiced in any coin except the mark. Other newspapers suggest a Gerniaii Kcmbours Bank, with a capital of two hundred million marks, but it Is considered a risky experiment. A POOR EXCUSE. Berlin, August 3. The newspaper Sebaubiiehnng bitterly attacks the German searemongering press for working in the interest of a couple of iimmunitiob firms and causing the war. SCARCITY OF METALS. Rome, August 8. An Italian who has been travelling in Germany says clandestine" newspapers are widely published and read, which are asking at what price the results have been gained during a year of war and what hope there is of arriving at a peace such as they desire. A f.v.n'.n" threatened, (if metals, not .of broad. Editions of these, newspapers are not purchasable outside, of Germany. Tliey admit a shortage , of, munitions .may be soon imminent, and wonder whether German science will (lnd a substitute for the ingredients lacking. HORSE MEAT IN VIENNA. Zurich, August 8. Horseflesh in Vienna is dearer than meat in peace time. Horses for slaughter are selling at £2O. CHEAP DECORATIONS. Amsterdam, August 8. The .Kaiser has decorated Herr Heineked, of the North German J.loyd Company, with the Iron Cross. The Emperor's entourage was strongly opposed to the decoration of Herr Ballin because lie is a Jew and a Socialist. The Man-' chener Post jokingly suggests that the shareholders of both companies should be decorated with the Iron Cross in compensation for their ruin. COPPER -FOR GERMANY. Christiana, August 8. An organised plot has been discovered to export copper and nickel scraps to Germany. Several firms of commission agents are implicated. A C'INE.MA COMBINE. Copenhagen, August 8. The fusion of the two greatest German and Danish cinema film producing companies is on foot, The combined capital will be half a million strling.