GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 November 1915, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

NEWb FROM THE TIMES. RECRUITING IN BRITA Times and Sydney Sun Service-. London, Nov. H. Colonel Repington says that now the Allied War Council is established the question should he submitted o) the strength required for the campaign of 1910, and what is to be each Power's share. Until this is fixed there will be uncertainty about recruiting. The country ought to be told the number of reeruits needed to repair the deficit. The estimate of thirty thousand weekly attributed to Lord Kitchener probaibly refers to the infantry alone.

A TRAITOROUS MEETING. The Times' correspondent in New York says that a banquet of the leading business men cheered a declaration that it wan the duty of America to solve the crisis of humanity caused by the sinking of the Lusitania, Araliie, and Ancona. At the same time Germans met and denounced President Wilson in speeches punctuated by cries of ,: Shoot the President." It is described as the most (traitorous meeting ever held in the country. BIG REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE I WEST. Copenhagen learns from a private source that the German railways are Idocked by big transportations from east to west. Its object is a violent attack in France to prevent reinforcements for the Balkans. GERMAN VIEW OF GREEK NEUTRALITY. The Berliner Tageblatt says that the neutrality of Greece depends solely on the increasing success of the Central Powers in Serbia. King Constantine | will be guided rather by their approach to the Greek frontiers as conquerors | than by the Serlbs, French, and English .fleeing. The neutrality of Rouraania is determined by the inability of Russia to bring help. The intervention of Italy is discounted COMMANDER OF THE Elu. Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received Nov. 23, 5.10 p.m. London, Nov. 22. Details of Commander Layton's escape from Denmark show that though closely guarded by sentries at his door lie slipped at night into another room, donned a civilian suit, and descended by a rope to the street. He met two -sentries, but by a mse passed them. It was bitterly cold, and he was suffering from influenza, but he swam the canal and gained the mainland. He reached a ferry boat and took on a job as porter. He carried luggage to the station and boarded a train.

BULGARIA GETTING TIRED. The Times' Bucharest correspondent feports that If. Radoslavnff had a conference with M. Mulinof. The Oppositionists made an agreement to convoke the Chamber, and the Oppositionists, forming a majority, demand that Bulgaria will not further participate in the war after the occupation of the Macedonian districts offered by botlr groups of Powers, and, if a separate peace is impracticable, the Bulgarians to cease hostilities.

SCENES G.V THE DANUBE. The scene on the Danube is ai: extraordinary one. Sets of six to eight immense -steel lighters, towed by tugs .and convoyed by Austrian monitors, .ire passing down. Three armed paddle boats conveyed a thousand wagon-loads of munitions, and six lighters with barbed wire, two with telegraph wire, and several heavy guns have reached Bulgaria. The Russians had mined the narrowest passages, but the stream was swollen and the monitors passed over the mines.