UNITED STATES. GENERAL ITEMS. AUSTRALIA.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 May 1916, Page 5

UNITED STATES.

GENERAL ITEMS.

AUSTRALIA.

PRESIDENT AS MEDIATOR. ' ( WILL WELCOME OVERTURES FOR i PEACE. < Received May 27, 5.5 p.m. Washington, May 26. ' ' President Wilson has announced that he hopes to effect mediation with a view to ending the war. He feels it incumbent on himself, as the head of a neutral power, to participate in peace negotiations, on the ground that economic . disasters are likely to follow the war's \ prolongation. He will welcome, therefore, overtures from any quarter, ,

NOTES FROM THE TIMES. IN SPANISH MOROCCO, Times and Sydney Sun Services. Received May 27, 5.5 p.m. London, May 28. The Exchange Telegraph at Madrid says that Spanish troops have occupied a hill commanding and securing the road from Tangier to Tetuan . This is a decisive stroke, promoting the complete pacification of Spanish Morocco. GERMAN FOOD SUPPLIES. The German press is not enthusiastic about the new Ministerial changes and the new food organisation, through a so-called Nutrition Office, which excludes all separate initiative on the part of the State. The Government's main difficulty is meat and milk supplies. A WARNING. M. Humbert, in the Paris Journal, says that the Germans are again superior in gun metal, and are using new heftvy guns, mounted on gun carriages, and travelling from place to place with most extreme rapidity. He says that the Mies must stop calculating that men and gun factories are the only things that count, NOT CARRIED OUT. '" A New York message says that a German woman confessed that she was hired to Wow up a Cunard liner, leaving on Saturday. She carried an infernal muchine on board the vessel, wrapped in baby clothes, but she returned to the pier and was arrested. .-• - «' ')

PREMIERS' CONFERENCE. Adelaide, May 27. The Premiers' Conference has resolved to ask the British authorities to co-operate with the Agents-General and bring before soldiers contemplating emigration the advantages to them personally and imperially of making their future homes in the dominions and arranging immigration at such times and in such numbers as the State Governments decid" the_v can be satisfactorily absorbed. - EXPORT OF HORSEFLESH. Melbourne, May 27. The Government has instructed the Agent-General to ascertain the possibility of securing a market on the Continent, particularly in Belgium, for horseflesh.