GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 April 1916, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

ITALY WANTS MORE SHIPS. , Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, April 19. The Tribuna, commenting on the heavy rises in freight, says the British shipowners arc unjustifiably keeping them. up. The British 3dverument should requisition sufficient ships to carry necessaries to Italy, besides ensuring complete, economic resistance, which equals military resistance in imparlance in the Allies* common action. GERMANY PREPARING FOR NEXT WINTER. Times and Sydney Sun Services, London, April 19. Neutral reports state that Germany is methodically preparing for a third winter campaign. She is cultivating all available land, stocking waters with fish, inventorying live stock and preserved foods and devising fresh substitutes for tea, coffee and butter. NEW RUSSIAN GENERAL. Copenhagen, April 19. The Tageblatt says that General Polivanoff has been appointed commander-in-chief on the Russian south-west fiont on the Styrpa. GERMAN RAID IN GREECE. London, April 19. A Salonika message states that German cavalry patrols entered Greece and compelled a Greek company to remain quiescent while they blew up three railway bridges between Doiran and Akindjas, and then withdrew. SIR J. B. ROBINSON'S OFFER. Capetown, April 19. Sir J. B. Robinson's offer is of £IOO,OOO towards the million required to make up the difference between Imperial and colonial pay. It is a condition that Sir Abe Bailey's gold companies contribute- proportionately, the Union Government granting half a million.