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Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1915, Page 6

BRITAIN.

FOR VALOUR. V.C'S. AWARDED. London, Oct. 1. Victoria Crosses have been awarded to the following:— •Captain Hansen Smith, of the Lincolnshire Regiment .of the new army. On August !) at Yilgkin Burnu, Gallipoli, the Lincolnshires were forced to retire, leaving their wounded, owing to the intense heat from burning scrub. Captain Hansen and three or four volunteers dashed several times over 400 yards of open ground under terrific fire and rescued six wounded men from inevitable death by burning. Private Potts, Berkshire Yeomanry. Although severely wounded at Hill 70 Potts remained for 48 hours under the Turkish trenches with a wounded private, unable to move. Finally, using his shovel as a sledge, he dragged his comrade 000 yards to the British lines, though the Turks were firing. OVERSEAS FINANCES. London, Oct. 1. Representatives of the Dominions, India, and the Crown colonies will hold a further conference with Mr, McKenna and Mr. Bonar Law, with reference to finance, next week. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Received Oct. 2, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 1. Mr. Asquith, questioned in the House of Commons regarding the resolution adopted by a section of the Laborites, threatening a national strike in the event of national service being adopted, replied that lie did not anticipate that such a contingency was likely to arise. The Press Bureau has issued a statement from the Trades Union Congress repudiating the report that Mr. Asquith and Lord Kitchener expressed divergent views on conscription. '• TRADE WITH AMERICA London, Oct. 1. Sir Edward Grey, in a letter to Mr. Page, United States Ambassador, to show that statements circulating in America are doubtless inspired by German agents, to the effect that Great Britain is trying to stop the United States' legitimate trade with neutrals, in order to capture trade, gives the following figures:—increased re-exports of cotton from the United Kingdom to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands, January-Mav, 1915, compared with 1914, amounted to £50:1,035; United States increase for the same countries for the same period, 3,149,401 centals. Britain's re-exports of rubber for all destinations in the same period increased 113,045 centals, while those to the United States increased 170,184 centals. Similar examples were given in respect to lubricating oils, tobacco, cocoa and other products. The total volume of trade of the United States with these countries increased 300 per cent.

RUSSIA'S TASK. ANOTHER HEROINE OF THB WAK, Pclrograd, Oct. 1. Unheeding the appeals of officers to take shelter from the hail of bullets, Mira Ivanova, a nurse, tended the wounded in the thick of battle on September 21 until all the officers, including her brother, had fallen and the men were wavering. Mira realised that the moment was critical, rallied the remnants, charged at their head, and captured a trench. She was then struck in the head 'by a bullet and soon died.

A GERMAN VERSION. HUGE CAPTURES CLAIMED. Amsterdam, Oct. 1. A communique says: General Hindenburg stormed another position west of Dunaberg, and the Russian attacks on the front and between Smorgon and Wischnew collapsed, with heavy losses. We captured, on Thursday, 13j0 Russians. Repeated partial attacks on Prince Leopold's army were all repulsed. Attacks on General von Linsingen's front are still proceeding. Our captures on the East front during September were 421 officers, 95,464 men, 37 guns, and 298 machine-guns.

• AUSTRIAN'S UNDER THE WHIP. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) Reftied Oct. 2, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 1. The Berliner Tageblatt announces that the Russians have penetrated the Austrian trenches between the sources of the Goryii and the Ikva. It. is stated that the German Government is calling in all manufactured articles of copper, brass and nic\-cl.

BALKANS. A GRAVE SITUATION v - London, Oct. 1. Sir Edward Grey has made a statement to the effect that he regards as of the utmost gravity the news that German and Austrian oflicers have been arriving in Bulgaria to direct the army. London, Oct. 1. Sir E. Grey, following his statement, said that information had been received that Austro-German oflicers for several days had been arriving in Bulgaria with a view of taking an active part in directing the army. This action was similar to that taken in Turkey in 1914, when German officers forced Turkey to an unprovoked attack on Russia. Since the allied Powers were bound to support the States threatened by such proceedings in Bulgaria, the news was regarded as of the utmost gravity. WATCHING EACH OTHER. Athens Oct. 1. The neutral zone between the Bulgarian and Greek armies in Macedonia does not extend beyond rille shot distance. / AUSTRALIA. THE METAL MARKET. Sydney, Oct. 2. A prominent mine director declares, with knowledge and deliberation, that the Imperial and Commonwealth kutliorities, in holding up all Australian supplies of wolfram, molybdenite, scheelite and other alloys, are playing into the hands of our enemies. Owing to the creation of the new metal exchange and the fixing of prices nearly £IOO,OOO worth of munitions metal is looked up.