GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 4 February 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

NOTES FROM THE TIMES. EXPORT OF MUNITION. ' "< Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, Feb. i. The American press agrees that President Wilson would veto any Bill prohibiting the export of munitions. The New York Times points out that the Allies' orders would go to Japan, whose immense arsenals would become a danger if America's plant 9 were scrapped. .... BRITISH SHIPPING. -'S London, Feb. 2. Mr. Norman Still, presiding at a shippers' meeting in Liverpool, said 1050 vessels entered the war risks scheme. The Germans destroyed (SO vessels, totalling 315,000 tons, and we have added 72 vessels, totaling 455,0f10 tons. No ship had been held one day in port because of the crew's refusal to face the dangers.

TWO BOMBS FOR ONE. .: Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received Feb. 3, 5:5 p.m. - ' London, Feb. 2. The Daily Mail urges the Government to acquire twenty-five thousand aeroplanes to raid Cologne, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Essen, and Kiel. The paper says that the enemy will think twice before they make barbarous attacks if they nnow that for every bomb dropped on London district two will follow on a German city. THE MAIL'S SPY YARN. The Daily Mail spy concludes his narration by saying: There is great consolation in opening the eyes of Britain to the strange Eastern migration of Germans with a certainty, unless the Allies obtain a smashing victory, of .the occupation of Asia Minor, which will threaten England's hold on. India and Egypt, and Russia's security in the Caucasus. It will open to Germany a vast granary, and completely destroy the effect of the British blockade and alter the whole history of the world. REPORTS FROM AFRICA. The War Office announces that General Smith-Dorrien reports that 'the branch line from Voi, on the .Uganda | Railway, has reached Sevegeti, which the British captured on January 24, The enemy's activities have sensibly dimiinished. Commanders in West Africa report successful minor Anglo-French operations. The enemy had many killed and captured. Many fully armed natives are deserting to tho Allies. ' The Cameroons coast line has been cleared of the enemy. .It is reported that seven hundred Germans are eniamped or. the Spanish fronter.