GENERAL ITEMS.
TROUBLE BECOMING CRITICAL. Peking, June 14. The Acting-Premier, Chiang Chano Chung, the former Minister of Justice, signed a mandate dissolving Parliament. The leaders of the southern provinces telegraphed that they no longer recognised the authority of the Persident. It is believed that civil war will result The Governors of Ktvang-tung, Yunnan, Kwangtse and Kweichou provinces are ■mobolising. London, June 14. The Chinese Parliament has been unceremoniously dismissed. ENEMY ATTACKS REPULSED. London, June 14. Italian official.—Violent enemy surprise attacks on our new positions on Mount Ortigara and the Asiago Plateau were thrown back in disorder and with great loss. We also frustrated several surprise attacks on the Julian front. CONSCRIPTION OF WEALTH. Ottawa, June 14. The Government has decided to impose super taxation on large incomes in order to fulfil the country's demand for conscription of wealth, The appointment of a Food Controller is pending.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 June 1917, Page 5
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