GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1915, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

NOTES FROM THE TIMES. DOIXGS OX THE DAXTB::. Times and Sydney Sun Porv-ejs. London, Xov. 11. The Times" Bucharest con-L'.spo'-iilont says Oir.t the Germans have discharged over a thousand waggon loads of munitions tt Danube ports. Kladovo iiai ber-n transformed into a military port, and numbers of munitions barges aw daily unloading. The Turks' supplies are. unloaded at Vidin.

In the Commons, Mr. Wodgcwood said that no one had anything "but word? of the highest praise for (ienerul Birdwood, ami he hoped that no inferiority of rank would be allowed to bar hi';; more brilliant promotion. Mr. Fell asked would the opportunity be taken of the expected presence of Dominion leaders to hold a conference to consider the flooding of the Empire with cheap enemy goods at the cud of the war. Mr. Asqnith said this and other questions of interest to the Empire would 'be discussed, as opportunity was given, i„ the presence of the Dominion representatives.

By Cable.—Press Association—Copyright London, Xov. 11, In the House of Commons Mr. J. C. Weugewood, who won a D.S.O. at the Dardanelles, approved of the campaign, though it was a gamble, and declined to blame the Cabinet because it was turning out badly. The Government ought to take the losses without talking of the decline of British prestige. The Suvla Ray landing was very unfortunate,* and the generals responsible should he dealt with in the same'effective manner as the military failure'; in France. Christianin, X'ov. 11. The London correspondent of tluAfte.npostcr describes a British antiZeppelin aeroplane. It is of 200 horsepower, and rises FOOD feet in twenty minutes, and is equipped with formidable guii3 and projectiles. Petrograd, Nov. 11. A Teheran telegram says that the majority of the Mcjlisli expressed a wish favorable to an adjustment of relations with Russia. The. Council of Ministers has born sitting for twenty-four hours deliberating on the conditions which it will oiler Russia and Britain. Meanwhile the Austrian and Herman legations have removed their archives and belongings to the American legation. Melbourne, Xov. 12. Mr. Hughes, in reply to a question whether he was satisfied with recruiting, raid the Government would consider the whole matter in the light of the census. There was no intention of departing from the voluntary system of enlistment. He believed the census figures v.'ould enable them to give the required impetus to recruiting.