GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

NOTES FROM THE TIMES. : THE CHINA UNREST. Timtji Sydney Sun Service. /Received April U, 5.5 p.m. ' • ( London, April 13. ill the House of Commons,, Xord Robert Cecil stated that the Chinese unrest was not diminisning, and it was impossible to predict the outcome of the situation, which was changing daily. Se fat there was no Indication of danger to forfeign lives and property. AMAZED AT AMERICA'S SOMNO- ' ■ LENCE. Mr. JBonar Law, interviewed by the American Press Association, said that the British Government 1$ not desire to say What action America should take . When ! t» citizens were barbarously murdered, .but the world's hope, lay in makjngjoutrages against civilisation impoMible. (JOCOA AND COFFEE. The Times l correspondent at Copenhagen reports that German papers state tiiat there is a supply of cocoa and cpffee sufficient to last for six weeks. • WILL GO HUNGRY. Scandinavia lias prohibited exports, and German people will get only onethird of their necessary victuals. Not only German .civilians will be hungry, Ixrt also the . soldiers in the trenches, - fraih /Whence there are numerous comblainti. . T - LOSSES ON THE SEA. Thr atatement is ma'de that fsrtythree British, ten Allied, and thirteen ' h«tttr*i vessels. have been lost since lOieh' 1; * total tonnage of 2,201,823 beftf sunk to date, leaving 36,000,000 toij< afloat, ° excluding the enemy and 'Astrata LakM. Half of the British MiWfeflflO tons baa been requisinr,