GENERAL ITEMS.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 April 1917, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS.

DEFENCE OF, THE PALM. , London, April 24. ■■, General Jurgens, a Dutch margarine fondant, who expended £17,000 on ' jf, house at Egham, has been fined £SO, fcad two builders heavily fined under ,i £e Defence of the Realm, Act. JKUUDiSQ FRUIT TREES; Amsterdam, April 24. ' A Berlin official message announces t ' thai*tb.e reason for felling fruit trees 111 the evacuated territory was to present the enemy using the leaves in fiimmer for cover. NATIONAL SERVICE. , London, April 24. The Stock Exchange closes on Saturdays to enable members and clerks to engage in national service. JSEW ZEALANDERS AT THE, FRONT. London, April 24. Sir Tnomas Mackenzie has compiled -It JUt.pf.,Boo Ne«t, Zealanders fighting !n the army and navy outside the New Zealand forces, and has arranged to supply information to next of kin, also to present them with gifts similar to : those sent to the expeditionary force |t Chr'itmas. GERMAN PRISONERS. i Paris, April 24. The Government has notified Gcrmany that it is embarking German pri =• ' pliers on hospital ships. SUBMARINE MENApE. ,'■'' lahdon, April 24. Mr, Kennedy Jones declares that the ' , ■ paftmarine menace has become greater than ever and unless people further reduce their consumption of breadstuffs they may be brought to the edge if disaster/ before the next harvest is gathered. v ENORMOUS FIRE. Paris, April 24. An enormous fire occurred in Valence, V She whole district of the town being farmed. Firemen were summoned from Jjyionsyfiß miles away. kaiser^deikied. London, April ii. "., Natives in Orlssa, Bengal, where Gerfr<m missionaries had worked for many years, have been discovered invoking the Raises as a native deity to assist to bverthrow British rule. WAR CONFERENCE. ,"j ■ London, April 24. / . The nigit sessions of the War Conference, begin to-night. The conference will sit all day'to-morrow. There arc hopes that the work will be completed : / jtn a week or ten days. CANADIAN WHEAT. London, April 24. Lo>4 Devbnport states that according M Infest estimates Canada's 'exportable frhtat will be much below the 81,000,1000 bnefaeln previously reported- He denies that the British Government any wheat it held in America.